Holy cow, it's February already!

I cannot believe that January has come and gone. It went by so quickly. Which is great because that only means that it is going to be getting warmer from here on out, hopefully! We haven't done anything too exciting the last couple of weeks. I actually tried to post a blog with a video three times last week and I couldn't get it to work. I will probably have to go the youtube route to post cute videos of Sam laughing. The kid is hilarious. I hear him laughing all by himself all the time when he is in his bouncer or swing. Dan and I can get him to laugh pretty hard too, it is so funny.
I have created a habit with Sam that I have mixed feelings about. I'm not sure exactly when it started but I think it was end of Novemberish. Actually I think it was when we got rid of the bassinet and moved Sam to his crib. He has never been a good napper in his crib. He did pretty good in the bassinet but the crib, not so much. So, I started taking Sam on car rides to get him to fall asleep. Something I said I would never do. I wanted him to be able to fall asleep on his own. Well after a couple weeks of knowing that he was tired and him not falling asleep I caved. So, I would take him on drives to put him to sleep. This only lasted about a week because there was a snow storm and it was cold and wet outside and I didn't want to go driving in it. So I just put Sam in his bouncer and bounced it on my knee to put him to sleep. This is the habit that I have created. Now, every nap time I put him in his car seat and bounce him to sleep. He sleeps great in his car seat. The last couple of weeks his naps have been 2 sometimes 3 hours (If I am lucky). He still has plenty of his short 45 minute naps but still. I keep telling myself that I need to just put him in his crib and let him cry it out and get use to napping in his crib. However, when I did that one day he cried 30 minutes and napped 30 minutes. So I haven't had the patience to do it constant enough to make it a habit. When I bounce him in his bouncer the crying lasts 5-10 minutes. Take your pick...
Sometimes I am really hard on myself about this habit I have created. However, I am currently thinking its not that big of a deal. Some people use Binky's or different things to get their children to fall asleep and that habit will have to be broken one day, right? Okay, maybe i'm rationalizing but I figure it is the same idea. He sleeps great in his crib at night so it is just nap time. I'm sure I will have to break this habit one day but for now I think I will just let it go. It seems to be working well right now. Especially when we are not home, it is nice to be able to get him to sleep in his carrier if he is tired and we aren't leaving yet.


I also started Sam on rice cereal. Well, actually I haven't started him on it. I tried it one night two weeks ago. They recommend you mix the cereal with breast milk and if I don't have time to pump then I don't have the breast milk to mix it with. He did pretty good with it and actually acted like he liked it. It took him a little bit to get use to the whole spoon idea but he did pretty good. I really think that he is ready for it. He just seems so ready; I am going to try to be better at doing it this week. I had something every night last week so it was hard to try to get it done. I need to plan better.



He is starting to get on to some sort of a schedule and it makes me very happy. However, it seems like when I think he is getting onto some sort of a schedule he mixes it up on me. But he wakes up about 6:30ish, but we don't go pick him up until 7. Takes a nap about 8:30 lasting anywhere from 45 min. to 2 1/2 hours, The early afternoon nap time is still up in the air. It is usually aywhere from 1-3ish and that also lasts about 45 min. to 2 1/2 hours and sometimes he will take a nap later in afternoon. And he has been going to bed around 7 ish. some days I think I should have put him down earlier because he gets overtired and has a really hard time falling asleep. Wow, I am just brain dumping everything that has been going on with Sam lately. Sorry for the long post. I have a ton more to post about. You can look forward to posts including, my homemade calzones, delicious trifle and FHE project I have been working on oh and some of sam's favorite new toys which actually aren't toys at all. This is good for now, I need to do the laundry and clean.