sleepy boy

You would think since he was so tired he went right down for a nap and slept a good couple hours, right? WRONG - this is HUDSON we are talking about. He was asleep as soon as I took him out of the seat but as soon as I put him in his bed and he was up crying. Took me 30 minutes to get him back to sleep - for a 20 minute nap! Is it even worth it?!?!?

bedtime

Here is a little sample of Jamie's rendition of a soothing, relaxing bedtime routine...no wonder the kid doesn't sleep!! Actually, for the record, he started sleeping again at night a few weeks ago. He sleeps 11-12 hours at night - all night now. BUT, you might be able to guess, he quit taking naps again the same day. So it's evidently one or the other in our household. We switched a week ago to one nap a day (since he wasn't taking any I figured why keep putting myself through 2 crying fests a day when we could just do one instead!). So that is helping my sanity at least but he still rarely naps.



My Montage 6/11/09

Hurry up Mom!

Shopping is boring!! Or it could be he was having a hard time staying awake since he hasn't take a nap in 5 days!

cousins

Hudson finally got to meet his cousins from Florida last night. They are here for the holidays and stayed at our house last night and are spending most of the day with us today. Hudson has been enthralled just watching them play - definitely keeping him stimulated!

Kaedyn is going nuts because both Athena and Hudson are taking naps right now and she doesn't have anyone to play with. She wore Athena out playing fetch with her this morning, so she's hiding in my room and Hudson is down for a nap, but he's still crying after 1.5 hours. She keeps asking if he can get up to play...she finally just said "Hudson wants to get up to play but he can't cause he has to take his whole nap." I hope he takes a nap at some point so he'll be in a good mood for Christmas at my parent's house tonight!

Kaedyn playing banker in the playroom downstairs.

Mia and Kaedyn reading Hudson a book.

Bryce jumping on the bed - and almost on Hudson's head a few times!

naptime

Starting Hudson on cereal has not helped his sleeping patterns at all. He still fights naps all day long, and then wakes up once or twice at night. The night times I can handle - it's the skipping naps that is starting to wear on me. I can spend all afternoon trying to get him down for a nap - and never win!

Yesterday I was over at my parents and let my mom try. She rocked him for 15 minutes and then came upstairs and said "He is stubborn!" And he never took a nap yesterday.

Today I rocked him for 10 minutes like I normally do. And he screamed for 10 minutes like he normally does. So I decided to try the "let him cry it out" approach. It's not working... We started naptime at 3 pm. 10 minutes of rocking and crying. Then we went for 31 minutes of full out screaming and crying in his bed. I went in every 10 minutes or so and wrapped him back up, comforted him a little, then would go back out. Then I thought he was going to go to sleep because he had about 10 minutes of just moaning a little. But as I started this post the screaming began again.
Oh wait - it stopped - nope, there he goes again.

So how long do you let them cry it out? (It's taking longer than 10 minutes Cecil!!) He's gone on for long enough now that it's time for him to eat again....it's an endless cycle!

I don't hear him now - could I have won the battle??? Nope.

Mommy's coming Hudson!!

sleep - who needs it?

Evidently not Hudson. We have been having a rough time with sleeping for the last week and a half. Not taking naps during the day, staying up late, getting up early. It's wearing me out, but Hudson seems to be handling it just fine!

We think he is teething which is what has upset his routine so much. We have days where as soon as I lay him down after rocking him to sleep, he wakes right back up. And we'll do that 3-4 times a day and never take more than a 5 minute nap.

Then there's the nights - exhausting! He had been waking up at 4-5 and eating, then going back to sleep till 7-8. Not anymore. For several nights he has been getting up at 1:00, then again at 3:00, then again at 5:00 - you get the picture. Some of that I think I will attribute to a growth spurt, cause there were 2 of those nights that he ate and ate when he woke up. But normally he isn't too hungry and goes back to sleep after a few minutes.

So yesterday he never took a nap at all. So I figured he would go to bed early (His normal bedtime is between 9 and 10.) So by 7:30 I had him in his pajamas, fed him (he fell asleep) and I put him to bed. He was awake before I could lay him down and wanted none of that. Let him cry it out for awhile, then Jamie rocked him back to sleep. Laid him down, woke right back up. By nine I decided to nurse him again - and we started the whole thing over. Jamie ended up rocking him till around 11 and when he was finally really, really out of it, was able to put him in bed and he stayed asleep. Then he slept till 4 and was up again at 5:30. But this time he slept till 8 so that was nice!

I think he is taking after his father in the sleep department - doesn't need much of it. Jamie can go to bed at 1 or 2 in the morning and be up at 7 and be just fine. Not me! I need my sleep!

naptime

How do you make something so cute take a nap!?!?!?

I know it's dark (it was naptime after all) - but you can kind of see and hear him smiling and laughing at me while I am trying to get him to go to sleep. This was about 20 minutes ago, and he's not sleeping yet!