--Tonight will be Night #3 of sleep training Noah to not nurse at all during the night. The last 2 nights of sleep training did not go well. The first night he cried for an unknown amount of time (the spouse was on duty and he fell asleep before Noah stopped crying). The second night he cried for about an hour.
To swat away the mom guilt while I hear Noah screaming in the middle of the night I tell myself that this is good for Noah. I'm giving him the gift of sleep and self-soothing. He does not need to be eating in the middle of the night anymore since his stomach is big enough to hold food for at least 12 hours. I'm only asking him to go about 8 hours without eating (since I still do a 'dream feed').
--On the days that I have both kids to myself all day (when Judah doesn't go to preschool) I become a mean and crabby person after about the 5 hour mark. I don't like the monster I become after Hour Five. I have no patience. I yell at Judah at the slightest provocation. I lose all perspective. I kinda feel shaky with rage and annoyance. It is not pretty.
--I am LIVING for daylight savings this Sunday. Our schedules have drifted way too late. Judah doesn't sleep until 10:30pm some days and left to his own devices, won't wake up until 9am. DTS will be my salvation...I'm hoping.
--Today we went to a pumpkin patch to kill time. I thought it would be totally lame, and it kinda was as there were maybe only 6 kids there total, including mine! But you couldn't tell from the smiles on these faces. (As you can tell, these pics were taken with my crappy cell phone since I had such low expectations for the trip, I didn't bother bringing my 'nice' camera.)
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| Batman and a chubby stand-in for Robin. |
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| Chubby stand-in loves having the car all to himself. |
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| Batman likes to show Chubby who's boss. |
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| My lil' pumpkin and his giant pumpkin. |
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| Holding his brother for safety or trying to strangle him? It's a complicated relationship. |
And with that, I'll wish you all a Happy Halloween!
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