Life

Life happens.
I just never get a chance to sit down and write anymore.
Which sucks because I really think it helps my stress levels when I get on here and spew forth my junk.

Stewie is almost walking. I figured he'd do that a little late. He takes a few steps to us from the coffee table, or the couch, whatever he's hanging on to. He refuses to let us put him in a standing position though. Has to be of his own will or it aint happening. He's just so comfortable crawling, its almost like he'd much rather do that. But its ok, I'd much rather chase after a crawling baby than a running one at the moment.

He still head butts everything. And now he's started to throw his head back when he gets mad. Sometimes this causes him to fall back with a loud thump, and others he lets his head hang there and starts laughing. Either hes laughing at the ceiling, or the funny feeling he gets to have his head all the way back. He's strange. But its almost like an instant reaction. You piss him off, head goes back. I get scared like he's got a trigger in his head that causes seizures when he gets pissed.

The holidays went good. My mom stayed for christmas. Stewie got bunches of toys for daddy to play with.
We finally have a front facing car seat. Which kind of scares me. Im not the worlds best driver and now if I ever hit the breaks to the floor, I'll give my kid whiplash. He's kinda confused about the whole thing right now. Doesnt quite understand why he can see mommy now. I just dont like how he can throw his toys and see where they go so he can scream for them.

All He Needs is Horns

Stewie is a little billy goat.
He head-butts everything. From me, to the dogs, to walls, to windows, to bathtubs. You name it, he will head-butt it. Why? I have no idea.

He used to do it to show me lovings when he was tired. Now he does it to everything reguardless of how tired he is.
Sometimes he will do it harder and harder til he cries. Sometimes he will do it really really hard like tonight, on the bathtub, and then laugh his butt off.

Thats my kid....

Baby Of Mine

I just had one of those "I wish it would last forever" moments.

I went in the baby's room because I heard him whining on the monitor.
I opened the door and saw him sitting up. When he heard me he looked over and just grinned at me. I popped his paci in his mouth and he grinned again. So I scooped up my little man and we sat in the rocking chair. He was out in 2 seconds flat. But I kept on rocking for a little while. I was tempted to wake him up just to see that smile again.

After a rough day of Stewie being.. well Stewie, its really great when I can sit with him in my arms and just love him and realize I wouldnt want him any other way.

Jen Training

(I hate blogger beta, by the way. GRRRRR)

So I read that book, "No cry sleep solution"

Yeah that kinda is mostly for babies who get up alot during the night. Not much help for getting him down to begin with.

But one good point stuck with me. It said to have "crib time" every day where you play in the crib, so he knows its a safe place to be.

So we've been doing that for a few days.

Last night after our usual bedtime routine, I put Stewie down in the crib, and sat next to it. I expected him to throw an absolute fit, since we tried cry it out last week.

But he actually got all excited and started bouncing around and having a jolly old time. It took an hour and a half, but the kid finally started banging his head against the crib and slowly laying down. I dunno what it is about when my kid is tired but he bangs his head against mine, walls, or the crib, or even the floor. Not hard, but enough to say "hey Im kinda tired here"

So I "Jen trained" him last night.
Now hopefully tonight it will take a little less time, but I think he finally can get to sleep in there without me rocking him and sneaking him in it.
Of coarse I will have to sit there the whole time, but soon, I am hoping I wont even have to do that.

So Mommies, the moral of this story is: follow your gut!!! If crying it out makes you puke like you had breast fed and kept your baby in your pouch like a kangaroo his whole life, then dont do it.
Do things your way. Especially with the first baby. Like Ive always said, the first baby is like the first pancake. You know you are going to screw it up, but you do it anyway so you know better next time.
If that makes sense then you are officially my best friend.

Gotta Love Him

as heard from the baby's room today...

"Old McFarmy had a pig
Eeeee eeyyyee eeeyyyeeee ooooooooo
with a oink oink here oink oink there
Old McFarmy had a pig
Eeeeee eeyeee eeee eeyyyeee oooooo"

We picked our wedding spot finally. (with less than five months to go ha)
Now we just have to reserve it.

Fevers

This morning Stewie woke up at the ass crack of dawn. He refused to go back to sleep. So I gave him his bottle and daddy went off to work. Then Stewie decided he had gotten up way too early and we went back to bed.

We woke back up about an hour and a half later. Stewie was burning up. He had a temp of 102.3. So I gave him a big dose of tylenol, and tried to do the liquid thing most of the day. The poor thing wouldnt let me leave his side the whole day. I mean he usually screams when I leave the room and he just has to deal with it. But today he would literally whine like a little lost puppy if I so much as moved in another direction other than towards him.
I got his fever down to 100 by the time he went to bed. Nothing else seems to be wrong with him so its weird. He did take four short naps today instead of 2 extra short naps. But I guess that was the fever wearing him down.
Now Im worn down.
Ive been reading that book "the no cry sleep solution" so far its telling me things I kinda already knew. Its mostly for babies who wake up at night and cant get themselves back to sleep. Im hoping though that if I keep reading it will give me a clue how to get Stewie down for the FIRST time at night by himself. Cuz the second to the tenth times he wakes up he falls right back asleep after I give him back his paci.
So I dunno.