I'll explain the title of this post:Midnight (give or take an hour) is when Tegan has been waking up at night. As I've shared before, Tegan wakes up crying in the middle of the night sometimes, almost every night over the past week or 2, and it's all I can do to get him back down, at least it seems that way. For most of this past week I've been trying the Ferber method of waiting 5 minutes after the crying begins and then going in, patting T on the head, giving him his paci (if needed) and then going back to my bed. Then, after another 10 minutes I repeat the above... then wait 15 min and so on. Well, that seemed to work this past week. I usually only had to go in 2-3 times and after the 3rd time T would give up and go back to sleep on his own and then sleep until nearly 7am (which is a major improvement from the 5:30am wake-up which was becoming the norm when we brought him into our room to sleep when he'd wake-up crying).
Just a cute picture, has nothing to do with this story :)
Well, last night T woke up around 11p.m. and then proceeded to cry off and on until about 2a.m. Every now and then he'd stop long enough for me to allow myself to fall back asleep and then I'd awaken again maybe 20 or 30 min later to his crying. A few times I found that the crying was "because" his paci had somehow exited the crib (whether it fell or he threw it out I'm still trying to figure our). I gave-up at 2 a.m. and finally took him out of the crib to realized that he had a very wet diaper, he hadn't peed through it, but it was indeed very wet. So, I changed that and then brought him into bed with us. What did he then try to do for the next 20 minutes??? OH, that would be PLAY! Yes, he came into bed and then decided that it was time to pull my hair, roll back and forth between Brendan and myself, stick his fingers in every possible hole on my head, sit up, crawl, you name it. Being a light sleeper, there's no way I could have slept through that unless I was under anesthesia, but Mr. Won't-Wake-Up-For-Anything, a.k.a. Brendan, wake up and quickly returned T to his crib. All I know is that once Brendan took "control" I fell back to sleep. From there, I just know that Tegan was crying again at 7:24, so that's when I got up for the day. (WOW, that was a long story, sorry!)
So, any suggestions on what you think might be waking Tegan or what we can do to prevent last night from happening again are more than welcomed! We thought that maybe T's cold, so we put him in a long-sleeved onsie and socks under his fleece footed pj tonight, so we'll see if that helps. Our other thought is that maybe, somehow, he's hungry. He is down to only 3 bottles per day and 2 of them are now formula as my supply is very rapidly disappearing. We usually do the formula at his am and bedtime bottles and the breast milk at his 3pm bottle, so I would think that the formula thing probably isn't it as formula takes longer to digest. Who knows!
Magnets:Brendan introduced T to the large magnets on our fridge last night. Tegan quickly found a favorite and won't give any of the others the time of day. It's very cute. The neat thing is that the magnet he chose is one that you can pop out the back and insert a photograph, so I put a pic of my parents in it. :) After doing that this morning (putting in the picture) I gave the magnet back to Tegan and he immediately smiled and said "Guh, Guh" which he's been saying when I mention or he sees a pic of his grandparents. I think it's sweet.
Ok, sorry, but my fingers are tired and this post has gotten longer than I expected.Love to all!!!
~j
I'm trying to think of anything else noteworthy. OH, the crying when we drop him off at daycare is very thankfully ceased and, even better, been replaced by him giggling and smiling with excitement upon seeing our daycare provider. YAY!!! What an answer to prayers. Now, if only he'd sleep through the night... yes, I did say that. Tegan has been having a lot of issues with waking up 1/2 way through the night and only being soothed by either being held or coming to bed with Brendan and I. I hate this pattern that's developing but I also cherish my own sleep. After listening to him cry for 30-60 minutes I just have to give in so that I can be functional at work. Any suggestions???
Yes, it's a small tent that sets up in a matter of seconds, has no poles that need to be assembled, etc. AND is SPF 50! Whooo-eee! This will be AWESOME for bike races next summer to keep T occupied and out of the dangers of the sun. Who cares if it was designed for dogs. --> See the name of the tent below... if you can't read it I'll read it for you "The Instent Dog Haus". And, yes, I they did spell Instent wrong on there. HA! Maybe that's why it was at a Tuesday Morning store (similar to TJ Maxx and Marshalls). Hey, if having a misspelled word on there saves me $50 then I'm all for it!
I'll also let you know that Mommy was NOT the one to start the candy... just like the whole ice cream thing... Daddy started that one too. :)
Instead, I'll leave ya with some pics from this weekend.
We are getting closer and closer to crawling every day. It's crazy! he pulls himself using anything he can (grabs onto chairs, table legs, etc). He will also just roll over to wherever he wants or pivot his body in that direction. We'll keep you all updated 'cause I know that many of you are anxiously awaiting the crawling announcement :)
Love to all!
AJ and Trevor are both 6 months old, so a little younger and much smaller than the big dude, Mr. T. 
We had a ball taking pics of the little guys in their Halloween costumes...
No real news to post as far as T goes, still now crawling, but still getting up on his knees and rocking, so I'm still sure it'll happen pretty soon. Enjoy the pics!
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although he has learned how to snort like a pig. HA! (here's a pic of him doing just that)
There was a pretty cute pig costume, too, but it had eyelashes and looked pretty girlie, so I did have to pass on it.
If he's upset, just click your tongue and he'll laugh and start clicking his. He also enjoys clicking in between each bite at dinner... and just about whenever he wants. Our daycare provider told me how he got just about all the kids at daycare going clicking their tongues and she was just about ready to pull her hair out but had to laugh at the same time. HA!
At one point Aubrey (who isn't really a nuk/pacifier girl) decided she needed Tegan's paci, so she kept leaning over and taking it out of his mouth so she could chew on it. Tegan is too nice (or just didn't know how to react) let her go ahead and do it, but then he would get the most sad and confused look on his face. I wish I got a picture (or 10) of that. OH well...
Somewhere between leaving home and arriving at the orchard the temperature went up a few degrees and the humidity level increased drastically, because we became down right sticky and uncomfortable quite soon after getting there. Regardless, we did taste some apples, partake in some delectible apple desserts and take a tractor pulled wagon ride into the orchard to pick our own apples. 
Ever since T's first taste of applesauce we knew that he liked apples. Now that he gets juice we give him apple and yesterday (actually what partially gave rise to today's trip) Tegan had his first bites of apple, right off the core. Needless to say, he enjoyed his 2nd and 3rd and 4th tastes of apples today... these, though, were fresh from the trees. Yum, yum! 
I also think he especially likes eating apples because his gums are sore and swollen from his teething. [I swear I saw little "buds," as they call them, in his gums tonight at dinner. ] Tegan also had his first taste of apple cider. I just hope it's ok that it wasn't pasturized... I know I wasn't supposed to drink unpasturized juice when I was preggers. I'm sure he'll be fine, though. It was only a few drops.
After dinner T was really fussy, again, I think it's the teething, so I gave him an apple core (that still had a lot of fruit on it) and he went nuts... he was SOOOO excited and just LOVED knawing on it for a good long while. I can't believe he's able to get pieces off even though he doesn't have any teeth! 
