You're going to save this picture and show it to my girlfriend one day, aren't you?
We had a fabulous time when Silas's Mimi visited us over President's Day weekend. She arrived on Saturday, Valentine's Day, and we spent a leisurely day together catching up and then ate dinner together that evening. Sunday, we took Mimi for her first (and Silas's first ex-utero) visit to
Gravelly Point to watch the planes take off and land at Reagan National Airport and to walk along the Potomac enjoying excellent views of all of the monuments. We had a good time, but, honestly, Silas really didn't know what to make of the planes taking off and landing so closely.
Sunday night, Mimi graciously offered to babysit while Matt and I went out to celebrate a belated Valentine's Day. We had a scrumptious dinner at
Michel Richard's Central, enjoyed a bottle of wine, and probably only spent 90% of that time talking about Silas. Uncle Russ and Aunt Morgan came by to spend some extra time with Mimi and also to help with Silas.
This weekend Uncle Russ and Aunt Morgan headed back home to Durham, NC after spending the last six months living here in D.C. We are certainly going to miss them and our "Family Night" dinners. It was so nice having them here while I was on bed rest (they visited and brought food!) and during the first four months of Silas's life. We're still holding out hope that they'll decide that they loved it here too much and need to move back.
Silas is doing a little better on the sleep front. We've gotten his bedtime adjusted; so now, he goes to bed sometime between 7:30 and 8pm each night. He usually wakes up a couple of times each night and needs to be reswaddled and re-pacifiered, but doesn't wake up for a meal until around 4 or 5am. Then, I usually nurse him in his room, reswaddle and lay him back down until 6:30 or 7am, when he wakes up for the day. Naps, however, are another story. He still takes super-short naps (40 minutes or less) about four times each day, but getting him to fall asleep for these naps requires steps so complicated it seems akin to launching the space shuttle. If we fail to convince him to take a nap, the entire rest of the day will likely be punctuated by his sad little, exhausted sobbing and often my frustrated, less little, exhausted sobbing. I purchased my
third baby sleep book last week and will attempt to implement its suggestions this weekend. Scanning it, this book seems much more in line with Matt's and my views (and tolerances for screaming) on parenting and am hopeful that we will get naps under control in the next few weeks.
Napping is for FOOLs! I have very important work to do.
This weekend, Silas and I are making our first road trip without Matt (pray for me) and heading down to NC to visit his grandparents and Great-Grand. Next week, his Great Aunt Sarah and first cousin once removed Stancell are coming to visit and we're all very excited.
3 comments:
Hey Taylor, have you tried the book Baby Wise? If you have then disregard the rest of this comment. This book worked great for kris and I to get Jonah on a schedule that helped his sleeping patterns. Good luck and hang in there.
Wanted to let you know that I read this book you reference too. It is a good one.
I did try Baby Wise and thought it was great--especially the Eat Play Sleep routine. Our problem was mainly we needed more direction re the Sleep part. Silas was initially VERY resistant to napping and going down for the night. We then tried the Health Sleep Habits book and the extinction and graduated extinction methods, which did NOT work with Silas's somewhat stubborn (where in the world did that come from?) personality and then we tried the No Cry Sleep Solution, which also didn't really work. The Baby Whisperer, so far at least, however, has been the ticket.
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