Thank you to Ryan for making our dinner last night. It was fantastic! He made chicken breasts, steamed vegetables, garlic bread and a wonderful punch drink. Oh and an apple pie!(didn't bake it, but it was delicious) What a wonderful caring kid you are!
On a totally different topic. I am in need of some suggestions for getting an almost 9 month old to sleep all night, alone, in his crib. This week has been a rough one. Every night I have ended up passing out in his room on the couch. Not condusive for a good night sleep and I know it is forming bad sleeping habits in his little brain. We have a nightly routine that has not changed and he goes down just fine. Then he starts waking up CRYING about an hour later. Get him back to sleep and sometimes back into his bed and the pattern continues until I get so dang tired that I just sleep with him. Yes, I have tried letting him cry it out. Yes, I have tried putting him to bed awake but tired. Yes, he has a lovey in his crib. Any other thoughts on getting him to sleep in here...
and not here...
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/sniff /sniff. Truly, it is amazing. I was just telling Pat the other day that it doesn't seem like 5 years has passed, it seems like just yesterday. But at the same time, it seems like we have always been together? Life together is the easiest thing in my life, the thing that keeps me going. It's the reason that working full time and going to school full time for 2 years seemed like a logical thing to do. Why adopting a sweet, but thoroughly precocious 6 year old named Ryan, seemed like the logical thing to do. I wouldn't change a thing about my life, no way :P...ok, not entirely true, if I won the lottery, that would be change that I could adapt to. hahaha.
Love you.
Happy Anniversary!!
From the sounds of your husbands comments, he adopted your oldest. Mine too! Same age at the adoption as well! :)
AW!!! Happy Anniversary y'all guys!! Love you!!
Happy anniversary!
YAY Ryan! What a great kid! Maybe you can rent him out to me on my 5 year anniversary next spring? I haven't gotten to sit down and actually eat a hot meal in I don't know HOW long!
As for your little guy not wanting to sleep in his crib...Here's my 2 cents...and I know I'll take some internet heat for it...but I've been there, done that...and finally we're over it. So here goes...for a long time (seemed like ages was probably a couple/few months) when my little guy would get up (every cotton pickin' time I laid him in his crib) he would start crying/screaming - I tried everything - including the letting him cry it out which just raised all of our blood pressures. I resorted to taking him back to bed with us - he snuggled right in between us or in the crook of one of our arms...and we'd all fall fast asleep. Desperate times called for desperate measures. My hubby used to say that he didn't know any college kids or even HS kids for that matter that couldn't fall asleep without their parents so we just did what worked for us...and it did. And now the little guy sleeps in his crib most nights - all night...It wasn't ideal but it got us through a few rough patches...I was at my wit's end for awhile there and if the mama ain't getting any sleep...ain't nobody gonna be happy!
I just looked and here's what I had blogged during that time WE were going thru -
http://gustgab.blogspot.com/2008/01/now-why-didnt-i-think-of-that.html
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