Thanksgiving

I had to work on Friday this year so we stayed in Kansas City to celebrate Thanksgiving.  Grandpa John and Grandma Laurie came down for a couple of days.  We really didn't do much but eat, watch football, and do some Gray Thursday and Black Friday shopping.  Elliott was just getting over a 4 day stomach bug so he didn't even get to partake in the wonderful food.  Darn!  

Playing tractors with Grandpa.  I promised I wouldn't share this pictures because Grandpa is driving a green tractor, but the pictures is so adorable!

I wonder where Elliott gets that sitting position from?

Morning playtime with Grandma

Elliott's very first gingerbread house

So hard to get a good picture with Elliott

Sleeping Positions

I'm always amazed at the sleeping positions of some kids, but this one really made me laugh.  Elliott is still going through his sleep regression, but I've been letting him cry for 15 minutes before I go back in the room.  Last night he got really quiet and I was so excited that he had fallen asleep. I was rejoicing that we had finally gotten over this yucky 4 weeks of needing Mom and Dad in the room in order to fall asleep!  I looked at the monitor and this is what I saw.

It's hard to see, but the little blob in the left hand corner by the battery sign is Elliott holding onto the crib rails.  He had fallen asleep standing up!  He has actually done this before, but he fell over about 30 seconds later and woke back up and started crying again.  This time he was actually sleeping like this for over 10 minutes.  I decided I couldn't resist and snapped a picture!

Fall

 

We took advantage of the 65 degree weather in the middle of November and raked the leaves this weekend... in our t-shirts.  We found leaves everywhere when we came inside, even inside Elliott's diapers!

 

18 Month Sleep Regression

I'm going to add sleep regressions to the list of "things experienced moms should tell new moms about."  Elliott has usually been a pretty good sleeper.  He started sleeping through the night around 9-10 weeks and has been a pretty good napper in general.  Yes, we've had our fair share of early mornings and short naps, but he's always been very easy to put down. 

Enter the "18 month sleep regression."  It hit us like a freight train.  Our baby went from falling asleep without a peep and within 10 minutes of laying down in his crib to absolutely refusing to let us leave his room.  We first tried the "cry it out" method since we were successful with getting him to sleep through the night with this method.  But we quickly realized that this wouldn't work after two days of crying through his whole naptime at daycare.  So, we've resorted to laying down on the floor next to him until he falls asleep.  I sure hope that all the blogs about 18 month sleep regressions are right and this only last 2-6 weeks.  We are entering week number 3 so cross your fingers!

Here's to hoping for some more of this....