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September 30, 2009
In the past three weeks Parker has gone from sort of crawling to a high speed motor around the house. He knows what he likes (cat food/water, wires of any kind, the PS3) and he goes straight for it without hesitation. He loves to pull himself up onto things now (the couch/stools/chairs, his parents, his brother, pretty much anything that will stay still long enough for him to grab on). Last week he even crawled up the stairs by himself (with careful spotting from Dad of course). It’s amazing how quickly babies figure this stuff out. I know it won’t be long before he’s walking, though he doesn’t really have that balance thing down yet.
Parker loves his new-found ability, and would really prefer to be down and crawling all the time (which just isn’t possible in places like a doctor’s office or the grocery store…) he is also not shy about letting his displeasure about confinement be known to anyone within earshot.
Xander also loves Parker’s new-found ability. Zach and I joking equate it to Xander having a puppy because Parker will eagerly chase Xander around the whole house and the two of them will laugh and giggle the entire time. Just about 9 months now, and I have a feeling he’ll be walking about the same time his brother did, in a few months. Will that make life easier, harder, or a little of both…?
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August 29, 2009
Parker can crawl! Although, the fact that he can doesn’t mean that he always does… During the past two months or so Parker has gotten very good at belly scooting. He can get anywhere he wants to go on his belly, and he’s pretty quick (especially when he’s attempting to tip over the cat’s water bowl, which reminds me, I’ve got to move that out of reach again…) I think his ability to scoot on his belly delayed his desire to crawl. He’s been able to get up on all fours and rock back and forth for months now, be he didn’t get any momentum forward until the past few days. Now he’ll crawl (really crawl) for a few steps before flopping back onto his belly. I’m guessing it’ll only be a matter of time before he discovers that crawling is indeed a faster mode of transportation than belly scooting.
Also, have I mentioned that his 3rd tooth has popped through? Three teeth before 8 months! He’s got quite the set of chompers…
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August 12, 2009
A few nights ago I thought my baby might never sleep again. He slept three hours that night, and they were not consecutive. I’m not sure how I made it through work without falling asleep in my chair. But last night, oh last night was blissful. Zach put Parker to sleep just after 7pm. We’ve got a good bedtime routine now – bath, dinner, books, bottle, bed. Xander was in bed and books read and lights out just about 8pm (after two trips to the bathroom and a lengthy discussion of what we were doing tomorrow). Zach and I were both in bed by 11pm. Xander woke me around 4ish looking for his binky, but that was a quick trip.
Then at 5am I woke myself, completely paranoid that Parker must have stopped breathing. Usually he wakes us pretty consistently 3 times each night. Once around 11pm, then again sometime between 2am and 3am, and then finally around 5am. If we’re lucky, we can get him back to sleep for another hour or so after that last time. This has been our routine for a few months now. It’s not great, but we’re used to it, and we’ve been hopeful that someday soon Parker would start to grow out of at least one of those middle of the night wake-ups.
Knowing that I would not be able to return to slumber without checking, and also knowing that I had a 50% chance of waking the baby up, I went into Parker’s room to check. He had somehow done a complete 180 degree flip in his crib, and was sleeping on his stomach, but he was breathing and since I hadn’t yet woken him, I didn’t want to mess with him by flipping him back over, etc., so I crept back to bed, and smiled the blissful smile of a parent whose child has just slept through the night for the first time in a long, long time.
Let me repeat that – he slept through the night! 7pm to 6:15am! Over 11 hours straight! When I got him dressed this morning I told him that he needs to repeat that performance every night from now until the day he moves out of our house. And since all little boys listen and follow their mommies exact instructions, I’m sure that will happen any day now 
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July 30, 2009
I’m leaving for a conference on Sunday for work. This is the first conference I’ve been to since 2005 – well before Xander was born. Aside from 1 week when Xander was 6 months old, this is the longest I will have been away from my children, ever. And I have never left them home with their dad, not even for one overnight. It sounds bad when I write it that way, but it hasn’t been intentional – it just hasn’t worked out that I’ve needed to be away from home for long. I have complete faith that everything will be just fine at home while I’m gone. I know that it’s a lot of work to juggle our two boys, but Zach can handle it. Their clothes might not match when they leave for day care, and they might have a few crumbs still smeared on their faces, but they’ll be clean, and well fed and happy.
But, being the worrier that I am, I do worry. I worry that Xander won’t have shifted back to preferring Daddy tuck him in before I go. I worry that Zach will be just exhausted when I get home if Parker doesn’t sleep well. I worry that I won’t be around when Parker finally learns to crawl. I worry that I’ll be shy and nervous and won’t network well at my conference. I worry that I won’t have the right clothes – I’ll be over dressed, or under dressed or too hot or too cold. I worry that my computer won’t connect to the UVM network and I’ll be disconnected for a whole week (ack!) I worry that living in a dorm for a week will really be as uncomfortable as I remember. I worry that I’ll get lost, driving there, or walking around or both. Most of all, I worry that everything will be more than fine at home, it’ll be great and it’ll turn out that my boys really don’t need me around as much as I had led myself to believe… And then I feel bad worrying about that, because isn’t that the best possible scenario if everyone is happy and content?
But, regardless of everything else, I will get four straight nights of uninterrupted blissful sleep, and that in itself is worth all of the worrying!
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July 21, 2009
Parker & "Uncle Peegee"
Dear Squeaky,
Somehow you have developed into a little person who can survive on 20 minute naps. I know others have tried this method and found it successful. Your father and I are not those people. We function much, much better with 8 or more hours of sleep – straight. We can still function pretty well on 5, and if we have to, on 4. However, the 3 hours you’ve been allotting us for the past 3 days is not really helpful. You see, my bosses don’t find it cute or endearing when I fall asleep in meetings. I’ve walked into more doorways than I can count because I’m too tired to pay attention to where I am going. I put bread in the microwave and rice in the bread drawer. I’ve walked into every room of our house looking for a pair of socks I had been carrying at one point (still no clue where I left them…). For a period of time yesterday I couldn’t remember how to spell the word “reciprocate”. I love the fact that you’re sleeping two or more hours at a time during the day, but I’m not around to take advantage of that time. Unless you want us to sell you to some band of Gypsies (since they are known for staying up all night dancing and partying anyway), then I think it would be an excellent idea if you tried sleeping for longer stretches of time.
Love,
Mommy (who is on the verge of sleep deprivation psychosis)
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