And week 17 just flew on by.
Here are Sandy and Kris on Sunday morning before church. We had lots of sleeping and napping problems this week. A couple of weeks ago the baby started waking up in the night for no good reason, a lot, and we haven't been able to sleep much. And he was struggling to sleep in the daytime at all. But some of it improved by the end of the week.
But Sunday he hardly slept the night before, then wouldn't nap in the morning but 5 mins in Kris's lap. Then he stayed up for all of church. Needless to say the afternoon was NOT good. But the snoozing boys do make for a cute picture.
In desperation I tried to figure out how to help Sand to take a decent nap in the daytime. I've been chewing over this problem for days and days, but I finally realized that our room is SO light. Even with all the blinds closed it's just bright as can be. And there are tons of windows. So I thought maybe that was making it hard for him to fall deep enough into sleep. (I don't think he'd slept more than an hour at a time during a nap until the end of this week.)
So I put him in the closet.
I turned on the air filter so he couldn't hear Max's crazyness and I put him in the closet where it was nice and dim.
And it worked. The first time I did it he actually slept past 45 mins and I was blown away. We've been doing it since and things are starting to improve. He's becoming a much happier baby during the day and that's pretty great since he was adorable and happy to begin with. I think he has a pretty big sleep deficit to make up, so we're working on that now.
His eyes appear to be turning a dark brown color like Max's. They're so sweet.
And to wrap up the weekly report, some brotherly interaction:
Such cute little piggy toes.
The end for now.
4 comments:
I miss him so much. I miss both of them, but San holds still more. And his toes are fatter. And he can't get away from me, so I get to kiss him more. BUT HE CAN'T DO EXPERIMENTS!!!!
I love those last two shots at the end, the progress of his facial expression. Eloquent.
If you want him to sleep, just take him to a meeting, or a lecture. I seem to have absolutely NO problem falling asleep during any of those things, no matter how important they are.
Aha. You've discovered the baby-in-the-closet trick. Daisy slept in ours till she was 1 year old, and even then we only moved her because she was falling (climbing?) out of the bassinet all the time. It's a nice cozy place for a baby, although it tends to create an awful lot of clothes clutter in our bedroom.
I'm so sorry your father-in-law has been so sick. It must be so hard to see him declining and not be able to do anything about it. But it is nice that you have some time to spend together, preparing. Not that you can really prepare, I guess. It's just hard all around. I'm sorry.
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