The secret to naptime

We might have figured it out. It only took us 20 months to do so but if this is it - I'll do it. We have tried this 3 times in the last couple of days and he has taken a 3 hour nap, a 2 hr 45 min nap and one 2 hour nap. I'm worried cause they are getting shorter each day but they are still better than his usual 45 minutes! Hopefully the long naps continue - I don't even know what to do with myself after an hour and a half has gone by!

The secret to his naptime - it can be summed up in 4 letters - ESPN!

He's all boy!!

On Saturday Jamie watched Hudson all day while I was helping clean at Melissa's house. And Hudson took a 3 hour nap on the floor in the living room while Jamie watched football! So Jamie says he just has to hear the sports in the background and it lulls him to sleep! Evidently the Disney lullaby CD I play in his room is not his type of background sounds - sports is! So we have been putting him down for his nap on the floor in the living room and, so far, it's working!

If he's this tired....

WHY WON'T HE SLEEP?!?!?! Maybe I should just start leaving him in his highchair for naps?

taxes

Well, I don't really have a whole lot to say - except my dad and I are buried in taxes! Yuck!! We are working on them every afternoon (and yes, I just finished working on them now) - well, mostly him cause I am usually entertaining Hudson or putting him down for a nap - but we are making progress. We'll see if we make it without filing an extension!

Hudson is doing good. He has really started cruising around from different objects - like couch to chair to walker, etc. He has also started bending down to pick things up off the floor, which is cute. Today he was trying to reach his socks but he just couldn't quite make it! He is doing better about the "mommy hold me" all the time thing. He will at least play in the same room I am in now instead of me having to hold him - some of the time anyway. He is also doing much better with his sleeping. I think we might actually have the morning nap down but he is still fighting the afternoon one. He sleeps for 2-3 hours most mornings now, but I am still lucky to get 30-45 minutes in the afternoon. But the morning one is soooo long and soooo nice!

He will not eat anything but meat now, it seems like. And of course, sweet potatoes. But I am pretty sure too many sweet potatoes gives him gas, so I am trying to hold back on those. He won't even eat his pancakes anymore!! I made a new patch on Sunday and he took one bite and turned his nose up too them. he has also figured out that he can feed Zeus and Athena and he loves doing that. Today we were having banana bread for a snack and I tried to feed him on the floor in the office while we were working. Having him at the same level as the dogs was a mistake! He would take one bite, then let Zeus lick the next bite out of his hand, then he'd take a bite and back and forth...gross! He probably ate more dog slobber than banana bread!

sleep

Hudson seems to finally be figuring out going to bed - at nighttime anyway. He's been crying for about 30 minutes or so and then falling asleep. (Although I say that and he cried for an hour and a half tonight before he fell asleep.) Our newest problem is now he has started waking up around 4 am and won't go back to sleep even after I nurse him. He's never done that before - he always used to nurse and then go right back to sleep, but no more! We have tried just letting him lay in bed and cry and going in every 20-30 minutes and soothing him - neither has worked so far. So he cries till at least 6:00 am and then one of us will get up with him. Of course then he's ready for a nap by 8 am - but let's not talk about naps - he still doesn't understand what those are!

Maybe I should quit taking pictures of him while he is sleeping - probably waking him up!

But at least he wakes up happy!