Friday, January 15, 2010

exhaustion 101

i was fortunate to have an amazing baby who slept so perfectly until he turned 8 months old. he still naps great but he just does not sleep at night. well, he sleeps. and wakes. and sleeps. and wakes. and sleeps. and wakes ... some days are worse than others. he grew an inch between dec 3 and january 5 so that's a whole lot of growing. and add to that 4 teeth and an acquired ability to move about and you have one tired mom! he's always been a gassy guy too so some days he'll wake and squirm and kick and then all morning once we have dragged our sorry asses out of bed, he lets its all rip and takes a three hour nap. but then i'm still left wondering, is it gas or growing pains or teeth even. and then there's this new thing - he rolls over and starts crawling from his bed to mine which makes it awfully hard for him to settle himself back down again. *shakes head* sometimes i wonder if he wants to be a stomach sleeper but because the crawling is still new when he rolls that way he just wants to get up and get moving. who knows. all i know is i'm tired. we're off to grammas really soon (maybe sooner than originally planned!) he toots, poops, and sleeps well at grammas.

good thing he's cute.