Oh hai there

I can stand!

Life has changed quite a bit. 3 weeks will do that to a person. Boi got transfered and now has a 7 minute commute instead of 40. Peanut is now 10 months old. He's starting to stand independently, no steps yet, but he's pretty much there, just needs to take the plunge.

His sleep is still mostly awful. We don't know what's wrong right now, I'm actually kind of hoping the last few nights he did have whatever bug I had. Because he should be getting over it, and then hopefully start sleeping longer stretches again. He's turned into quite the 'butt in the air' sleeper though, which is cute. Every night before going to bed, I close my eyes, and slowly make my way to his room, slip in, sidle up to the side of his crib, open my eyes, and try to track down where he is in the crib. Then I stand there, and modify my guess as my eyes adjust to the dark. I go from, his head is towards this corner, to, he's got one arm funny and his head to the left, then oh hay, he's still got his nook in his mouth. If I can't track down his nook, I run my feet along the ground to try to find it, and if I find it, I stick it in front of his face for him to find if he wakes up, in hopes  that it soothes him back to sleep. 

At the splash pad

But we're trying to do everything by the book. Fill him up right before bed, give him every opportunity to soothe himself back to sleep so he's able to do it more smoothly without getting disturbed. No talking or picking him up (which we did break these last few days because he was going from 1-4 without sleeping if we didn't). Trying every trick the experts give. Everyone says they shouldn't need to eat really at night by this age, but we just can't follow that rule when he claws desperately at me, tries to sign for milk, gets nowhere, then tries signing other things. It's so sad :( I wish he could just tell us what's wrong. And there he goes, asleep for 3 hours and the second time he's awake. Gonna go be mopey.

So Hungry!

Peanut that is. I thought based on his stats at the doctors office he had gone through a growth spurt already, but the only thing that seems to make him happy is food. Bleh. Of course it is hot.

He's 9 months now, 28.25 inches and just shy 18lbs 15oz. The other night when Boi came home, Peanut rapidly cruised from the end table, across the couch, giggling happily until he reached him. He also can stand independently if he doesn't realize he's doing it. We got a week of good sleeping, just waking up once or twice, and then last night he woke up a lot again. Again with my wondering if its a growth spurt. I can't see any tooth buds, but he doesn't make these things easy.

We just have to make it to tonight, hopefully Boi will be home for bedtime, and then tomorrow night, and then he has Thursday, Friday and Sunday off. Can't wait for that! 6 day stretch, it could be worse, but it sure does take it's toll. And Peanut is getting increasingly bored being cooped up in our house, but it's too hot to take him outside.

What I do enjoy is that his favorite word today is mama. Of course, everything is mama, his food, his toys. But I still like it. Hopefully sometime soon it'll all connect and he'll say it to me and mean it.