Here are some updates on our little Frankie! Thursday night he was up and cried for 1 1/2 hours. Friday night 1 hour. Saturday night HE SLEPT ALL NIGHT!!!! Sunday night he was up and cried for 1 1/2-2 hours. Stinker! :) Poppy Chaney, he needs to give you back the $5! haha We'll get it! I hope! :) Thank you ALL for your prayers and support. Thank you!
He crawls. He gets into everything...or everything Jak is in! HA! He is a little shadow. He is also pulling himself up! This is exciting and scary! He had a hold of one of my Willow Tree Nativity sheep the other day! Yikes. We have to keep a close eye on him. He also has started trying to stand on his own. He can do it for a few seconds before he either falls or we need to support him again. He's getting braver. He wants to walk so bad! He has also started following me. If I leave the room, I often hear little breaths and the pitter patter of crawling coming up behind me! :) I love it! It's so cute!
He is also clapping now! It is so super cute! He looks at you with a huge smile and just continuously claps! He sometimes even makes a sound like "yeeaaahhh" like we do when he claps! hahahaha! So cute!
We love him so much...even if we don't sleep! ;) He has added so much joy in our lives!
I feel a little embarrassed to blog this, but I'm desperate! I need HELP! Frank is almost 9 months old and does not sleep more than 5-8 hours at night without waking up. If you do the math, this means I get anywhere from 3-6 hours of uninterrupted sleep each night. This has been the case for almost 9 months now! I'm done. I've been done. And Nick is done hearing about it! :(
I have read many books, articles, blogs about what to do to get a baby to sleep through the night. I feel like we have tried it all! If you can think of something we are missing...PLEASE let me know! I think I'm willing to try anything! ;)
Here's the scenario...Frank wakes up and starts to cry/whine/scream and he'll do this until we come up there. Once we are up there he will want held. If you don't pick him up he screams! If you try to put the paci in his mouth, he screams! If I pick him up he leans and reaches for the chair I nurse him in or tries to attack me to eat! If you lay him back in his bed, he screams. I know he can put himself to sleep on his own, b/c he does it and has done it! UGH! He's so stubborn! :)
We have tried...
giving him a bottle of formula (but he won't drink it from a bottle)
nursing right before bed to get a full tummy
eating solids before bed to get a full tummy
special toys in crib
special cuddly toy in crib
4-5 pacifiers in crib so he can find one easily
blanket
no blanket
running the heater for warmth and sound
changing diaper
teething medicine
Tylenol
putting him in the pack-n-play
crying it out (last night is was an hour and a half of crying before I gave in. last week it was an hour with Nick)
holding him/singing to him/rocking him
not holding him and just soothing him from his crib
giving a bath before bed
not giving a bath before bed
music/no music
mobile on/mobile off
etc...
Basically, what we have concluded is that he needs me to comfort him. He wants to nurse. ALL THE TIME! haha
What am I missing? What should I try? How do I stay sane? :) haha
If anything, I needed to vent this! Thanks for allowing me to do so! I'll let you know when he kicks this habit...hopefully! :)
I have not been able to blog in a while, so I just have some random things to share today!
A couple of weeks ago, I was able to watch the movie Holiday Inn. It was filmed in 1942 starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_Inn_(film)
I was totally fascinated with this film. I don't know if it was the quiet house, boys asleep, presents wrapped, chores done, that made it so wonderful...or if it was that I truly loved this movie! Now granted, I did fast forward through a few songs because it was dragging on a little, but I loved it! Sometimes I feel that I was born into the wrong era! I love the wholesomeness of this film and the glamour the 40's brought. It is so interesting to me! I wish these type of films would entertain the teenagers/young adults now-a-days!
I also taped White Christmas and am hoping to still watch that sometime for the first time, (even though Christmas is over). I didn't get a chance to watch It's a Wonderful Life this year :(, but is it also taped and on my to-do list! :)
Frank's first Christmas was WONDERFUL! We all loved Jak's excitement! He was so funny...he asked for a snow shovel (because we put that idea in his head) and a board game, Sorry!. Santa decided against Sorry! and got him a car track/city/train set instead. He LOVED it! The train didn't stop running from 7:30-9:30 Christmas morning! It was perfect! We were hoping he'd be so into his gifts that he wouldn't realize he didn't get Sorry!, but one of the first things he said was, "Santa didn't bring me my board game, Sorry!" We had to explain that Santa brought the train instead because he thought he would like it better. So, now, he tells everyone when asked what he got for Christmas, "I got a shovel just like I wanted and a train. But, Santa didn't bring me Sorry! That's ok, I got a train instead." Bless his heart! :) At least he liked the train!
I have not had time to post pics in a L O N G time! So, here is the link to Snapfish for most of December and the start of January! There are pics from Jak's Christmas program at school, playing in the snow, Christmas', etc. Enjoy! But, I'm warning you, there are LOT! :)
http://www2.snapfish.com/snapfish/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=6549388013/a=90173811_90173811/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/
Today was also a great day! The boys and I went to WalMart to stock up. We were there at least 50 min. BOTH boys were quiet, obedient, and patient, which doesn't always happen! :) It was so great! I also saved over $6 in coupons and at least that much with add matching! Woohoo! It was great! Then, we went to McDonald's for lunch...the one with the "park." I know that I am not normal by any means, but spending an hour at WalMart and then another hour at the Lapaz McDonald's made me feel pretty normal today! :) haha
I am very blessed!
