This month your sleep patterns went crazy. You had been in a good routine for a while. Now you've hit some phase where you either don't want to go to sleep, don't want to stay asleep, or both. It's okay at 8pm, but it's really brutal at 1am. One of the mornings that you woke up at 4:30am, even the people at the dog park told me I looked tired.
Dad and I have been talking about when Corbin went through phases like this, and the ways that we either coped or readjusted his sleep patterns. It was much easier then because it was only the three of us in the house. Now that Grandma and Grandpa are in the room next to yours, we feel a lot more pressure to keep you quiet instead of letting you cry. So it's been more difficult to use some of the strategies that worked before. Of course, the one person in the house who you don't wake up is Corbin.
You do have a molar coming in, so I thought that might be the problem. But even when we dose you with Tylenol, you still want to be awake. We moved your nap time earlier in the day in the hopes that you would be more tired at bed time. I think that worked for a couple of days. If you had any kind of symptom of anything--a cold, a fever, an ear infection--then we could maybe figure it out. Instead, it seems to be just an annoying change in your habits.
Other habits of yours remain the same. You still want to read all the time. You still like to build big towers with the Mega Bloks, although now you've started to decorate them with your necklaces. That's pretty funny. You still love to play with stuffed animals. Sometimes you like to wrap them up in your blankets, or make them play peek-a-boo with you. You still love to take walks. You still love to watch movies, especially Winnie the Pooh movies. You still love to dance, and you especially like to fall asleep on Dad's shoulder while he's dancing around with you.
This month, you had some adventures and missed out on some others. We all went to the Western Museum of Flight, which was pretty cool. You got to sit in some airplanes and watch some small planes take off and land. We bought you each a little toy plane for a souvenir; Corbin chose an Air Force fighter jet for you. We went to the South Coast Botanical Garden, which you seemed to enjoy. You tired yourself out walking around the different gardens that they had and I only had to pull cactus spines out of your hand once.
You did miss out on Halloween. We took Corbin to the Halloween Carnival at Wilson Park while you were napping. That's also why you ended up missing his school picnic, too. But you did get to visit with Uncle Alex and Aunt Lena and Maria when they came up to visit. At one point when I was trying to get the tables set for dinner, I handed you to Uncle Alex with the book Go, Dog. Go! You turned around and looked at him with the most suspicious look--it made all of us laugh.
You've added some more words to your vocabulary. They happen to include "nap" and "no," which you don't actually say together. You're much more likely to tell us it's your nap time when you're tired. That makes like easier some days--we appreciate that. Sometimes you come out with things that are surprising for your age. One day, you counted to 10 with me. On another day, we were looking at some memory game cards. You handed one to me and said, "Circle." I have a feeling when you actually start talking, it's going to be interesting times.
I should mention that one of your new words is Mama, which was only a few months behind "cookie." I see how you are.
Love,
Mom
Eating Dad's birthday cake:
Despite your expression in this picture, you like to vacuum:
