It happened so fast. One minute, we were having our upteenth millionth conversation about how Jonah’s belly crawl is in fact a legitimate crawl and there’s no need to get up on hands and knees but maybe if he’d been…
Category: sleep
he said “mama”
Saturday morning, in the living room, sitting on the big overstuffed chair, he’s on my lap. He taps my chest and says “Mama.” I got pretty excited. He patted my leg and said it again, “Mama.” Woo hooooo! I have…
he said “da”
Today, while I was feeding the boy his dinner in the high chair in the kitchen, I called Scott on speakerphone, to check and see how close he was to home. That’s pretty much a nightly ritual. One or the…
the last word?
I’m not going to count on anything lasting longer than a month, anymore, ever. At least not until he’s 18. That said, there’s a sense of wanting to post a wrap-up to the latest round of sleep training. This time,…
sleep is the word
Last night he cried for 20 minutes, and slept straight through till 6:30 a.m. Color us amazed. Scott had so much energy today — he thought it was nerves and then realized it was just that he hasn’t had enough…
live blogging the sleep training
It worked? After last nights’ crying session, he slept till 4:30 a.m. That’s better than it’s been most nights lately. But here’s the really wild part: I got up, Scott brought him to bed, I nursed till 5:15 — the…
falling
falling… behind. I’m falling behind, people. On emails, on responding to commenters, on getting my next post written for WEtv.com. I called in reinforcements for tomorrow — nanny care for the boy so I will be able to focus for…
panic parenting
So, I’m reading more about this peaceful parenting thing — and you know how things sometimes get mixed up in your head in a really Freudian way? I keep calling it perfection parenting which isn’t exactly helpful as far as…