Gracie is practically potty training herself. Yesterday was the first time in over a week I changed an actual dirty diaper. If she is finished with diapers in the next few months, I am going to just continue to buy diapers each paycheck like normal and stockpile them. Keeping receipts, of course. Wouldn't it be my luck that this baby would be allergic to Huggies if I threw out the receipts?
Really the only baby gear I absolutely have to purchase is a car seat and a stroller.
I really wish I could turn back the clock and NOT get crazy about a double stroller. That whole debacle makes my eye twitch. It was a pain in my rear each and every time I tried to use that thing.
In fact (Valerie may not remember this) but when I bought the first double stroller off of Craigslist, I decided to try it out in my living room. I unfolded it, admired it, Zachary climbed all over it - and then I couldn't get it folded back up. I texted Valerie a picture and some strangled cry for help how in the world does this thing fold back up - of course it was simple, I was just sleep deprived with a sick toddler and a two month old baby.
I just had to laugh at myself just now, remembering all of the "crisis" moments I've had as a new mom that are now just par for the course.
Let's talk about something else. Let's talk about my son and his terrible sleeping habits.
This was taken just moments ago. It's currently 9:07am and why is he still asleep? Because he got up at 4am and wandered around the house for awhile, turning on all the lights, using the upstairs bathroom instead of the cheerfully painted one just down the hall from his bedroom, and eventually getting sleepy enough to pass out on the couch. When I came downstairs awhile ago, he had just fallen off the couch and was blinking his eyes on the floor - "What happened, Mommy?" haha! I just put him back up on the couch and he is sound asleep.
We have put a lamp in his room to maybe help him when he wakes in the night to not be scared, but he told his Daddy last night on the phone, "I don't like my new light, it's not for me." So I don't know, maybe he will grow out of this phase and sleep better at night. The problem is once he has wandered through the upstairs and I notice him, I have a hard time sleeping the rest of the night because I know he is not sleeping well.
Oh well, he will be good company in a few months when I am nursing his little brother or sister in the middle of the night.
3 comments:
Zesty is sleeping just about like you did at his age--RANDOMLY!! I thought I would lose my ever loving mind. You slept in snatches, and Sica wanted to be in bed by 7:30 and up at the first peep of daylight.
Caleb has just gone through a phase of this - he would get up at about 3am and wander around until about 5:30. He didn't cry, although he would come stand beside my bed and whisper "Mommy .... Mommy .... Mommy ... Hi!". After a week or so, he stopped doing it, but I wouldn't be surprised if he does it again. Christopher is a very random sleeper, so it wouldn't surprise me if one of our kids does the same. I just put the gate on at the top of the stairs, make sure everything is up out of reach. Terence used to sleep-walk when he was 1 - 3 yrs and now I don't think he has done that in almost a year. Here's hoping, for you, that it's a quick phase!!
See I am getting nervous that when Gracie starts sleeping in her toddler bed that she and Zach will tear up jack in the night.
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