Jason is teething - we can hear it!

I think I'd feel worse for the poor guy if he wasn't crying all the time!! There's nothing I can do for him. Nursing more often only leads to spitting up (something he hasn't ever really done regularly, and not at all in the last few months), he's not interested in food - although we've found that shoving food in his mouth will at least lead to chewing and a few precious moments of silence. He doesn't want to go to sleep - I finally let him cry for probably almost half an hour to put himself to sleep tonight. He hasn't needed to do that it quite a while. It wasn't pleasant to know he was soo sad, yet also know there was nothing I could do to make him feel better.
He has two new teeth that have poked through. He's up to 6! One on the top right, and the other on the bottom left. I think he has the other one on the top coming in - and that's why he's cranky. Poor guy!

Better news! Shelly got a 'big kid bed' today. She was so excited once it was all put together. She had finished her nap (mostly on the floor, I think) and we decided to put her bed together. She loved being a 'big helper' by carrying the smaller pieces of the bed up the stairs. Once it was all together she wanted to test it out. She kicked Jason and me out of the room and said 'good night mommy.' She then had fun going back and forth from her bedroom to the playroom telling me about her napping on her new 'big kid bed.' It was quite entertaining.

The Drama Contines! :-)

With Shelly now able to climb in and out of cribs at will, it's been harder to figure out bedtime. We have the two kids in the same room, but it's looking like we're going to have to do some adjusting. Shelly apparently doesn't go to sleep right when we put her down, and if Jason is already down she'll likely wake him up (accidentally or on purpose, we've seen both). Or, if we keep Jason up for a while longer until we think she's asleep, she won't be asleep when we go to put him down, and then they'll keep each awake for quite some time. Our theory is that Jason will start crying because he's not asleep (either got woken up or was never asleep), and Shelly will either try to comfort or quiet him and climb into bed with him. This almost never works... Once I found Jason on his tummy with Shelly on top of him and she had a blanket over his head an wrapped around his face and she had a pretty good hold on his neck/shoulder area, trying to pick him up, or something... I think we're going to have to keep them in separate rooms until Shelly gets used to her new found power of climbing, just so that everyone can sleep!

The funny side of her new super power is that she falls asleep in interesting places. The other day she was on her belly in the rocking chair in her room with her head shoved in the bottom of the arm rest, and her feet up on the other arm. Last night she had the light turned on and had crashed on top of a pile of toys. It looked rather uncomfortable to me, but she stayed there all night... I think it's probably past time to pull out her toddler bed. That way she can at least crawl back into bed when she's tired

Here's a fun video I just found...

 

This is from our Christmas vacation to Utah.  It was fun to get to see family again.  We miss being able to visit them more often...  Is it any wonder when the kids get so spoiled? :-) (the grandkids get almost as spoiled as the older kids... :-)

Help!!

So, Shelly has officially learned how to climb out of her crib.  It started yesterday after her nap.  I heard her trying to open the door to the room that she naps in.  She naps in a different room than she sleeps in because we put both Jason's and Shelly's cribs into the same room, and their naps don't always work out quite right.  She naps in a port-a-crib that we have in the spare room.  I assumed that it was just the port-a-crib that she was able to climb out of, and promptly forgot all about it - until the next morning.  We don't usually shut their door all the way at night, and we woke up to a huge mess in the loft outside our door.  Apparently she is also able to climb out of her real crib too.  We have some adjusting to do.  I'm just glad that she can't open doors yet  :-)

Visit from the Aunts

It was fun having Cindy, Becca and Katie down down this weekend.
We went to the park and played games. This is Shelly trying to be like her dad. It was really cute! She walked the whole way to the car like that
The 'aunts' had fun playing (and napping) with both kids.

And dressing up Shelly (in Becca's clothes...)

Then the poor saps got stuck babysitting while Mark and I went to go see Wicked. It was a great show!
Jason now officially has two new teeth. Actually, he's had them for a week or so, but it's still exciting! :-)

Janet came down to visit last weekend, and while she was here she mentioned that there was big ICE raid for illegals somewhere in Lindon. Turns out it was at the company where I used to work! Universal Industrial Sales... It was strange to know several of the names that they mentioned in the news clippings.
Still not used to this site. I'm wondering if they'll let me post 'photo albums' instead of having to pick the best 2 or 3... I'll have to play a bit more to figure it out.

This should be fun!

Never tried this before - seems like it could be fun, and a great way to keep memories alive!