Bouncing, Sleeping, and Eating

We've had a pretty good week so far, especially since we slept through the night the past TWO nights in a row!

Tuesday morning we had an example of why we've now installed mesh crib bumpers:

Feet through the bars!

Such a sweet sleepy boy.

When we picked him up from daycare on Tuesday night, we both noted that he looked a little pale and his eyes were red around the edges. He felt a bit feverish, so we kept a close eye on him throughout the evening and gave him Tylenol at night. I also wore him in the wrap most of the evening - Dr. Butcher has told us in the past that he gets antibodies from us, so keeping him close and especially nursing him will help with sharing and he can fight illness better.

Not feeling well :(

He didn't sleep all that well Tuesday night, but seemed to feel much better in the morning so we sent him on to daycare. Ms. Sandy said she'd keep a close watch on him, and she checked his temp throughout the day. Thankfully whatever it was seemed to have passed!

Wednesday night we had some more yummy cereal - he's now getting a serving twice per day, once at daycare for his morning meal, and once at dinner time. He's getting really good at eating with the spoon!

He was pretty wide awake Wednesday night, so we plopped him in his jumperoo for a bit. Boy, he has figured out how to make that thing rock 'n' roll! Really seems to enjoy it, too.

Unfortunately, that kind of wound him up a bit too late in the evening, so he was still kicking around all crazy-like while we were changing into his PJs.

He finally calmed after some books and nursing, and we got him to bed around 10:30. He slept until 5!

Last night (Thursday night) after dinner we went to Swamp Rabbit Brewery. He fell asleep in the car on the way there (7pm) and slept like a rock the entire 2 hours we were there. I thought, "Oh great, he's going to wake up and not want to sleep when we get home."

Boy was I wrong!

We got home, he woke up but was calm while he got his PJs on, and then nursed for about 10 mins before falling fast asleep. Into the crib he went (around 9:45) and didn't make a single peep all night! I even had to wake him up at 5:45 - he wasn't about to wake up himself. Wow!

Really hoping this is a pattern we're settling into... might try out some earlier bedtimes and see how that goes.