Sunday Ramblings

#1 - My friend, Katie, will be here on Tuesday!! She's a 1st grade teacher in Kuwait. Yep, Kuwait! She went to college here in my hometown and did her internship at my school. We became great friends! Sadly, she moved straight out of town when she graduated. She is in a great program and I'm so excited at all the wonderful opportunities she is getting and the best part, she gets to come home in the summer! She came to visit last summer for about 4 days and I was big ole pregnant. This time she gets to meet Parker baby! I'm so excited!!!

#2 - We are getting an entire bathroom makeover! Taking out the tub, tile, flooring, and counter-tops! But NOTHING has gotten done. We ordered all of our supplies at the end of June. They still are not in. They do not call us, ever, to tell us if things are in or not. Anytime Keith calls them they tell us that it's supposed to be on the truck coming that day. Well, do they call to tell us if it did or not? NO! And they were supposed to be done by when Katie gets here. That's not happening. And get this, they haven't even given us an estimate on what the total cost is going to be! Geez! Keith is so very frustrated that if he doesn't hear anything from them by Friday, we aren't going to use them. We will go somewhere else to have it done.

#3 - Parker's sleep training is what I would call, done! He will lay down and go to sleep without any tears or whimpers. It's so great to not have to listen to him cry! He is taking about 2 sometimes 3 naps a day and they only last around 45 minutes. He is still sleeping through the night which is about 11 hours!!! 

#4 - Parker has a new tooth! This one is on the bottom and has just barely broke through! The one right beside it will soon be following! That makes 3 now! 

#5 - I really, really want/need to find a new church home. There is a church very close to my house that I would love to try but I get so nervous about going by myself with Parker. I end up backing out every time. I could definitely use some prayers! 

A little Daddy & Parker love at Family Day with Keith's army unit! 

What I wore to Family Day! 

Sleeping Update

It's safe to say that Parker was very spoiled to me rocking him any/every time he wanted to sleep. He is taking a bit longer to adjust but there is improvement!

Night time is a lot easier for him because he has been sleeping in his crib but I had rocked him first. We are down to about 10 minutes of crying/whimpering before he falls asleep.

Naps have been tough. Very. Tough. 

I have always rocked him during every nap, the entire time he slept. I will never do that again. He has cried and so have I. 

Today was the best nap day so far. He took 2 naps in his crib and one was for 1 1/2 hours! He is crying about 20 minutes still. 

It's been a pretty stinky week here. On top of trying to teach P to fall asleep on his own, he has double ear infections. This ended up probably being the worst week to start sleep training. He doesn't feel good and really wants his Momma. 

Thankfully, we are making progress. I think we will both survive. I am very ready for him to not cry at all! 

Here are a few cute pictures that never made it on the blog! :-)

 Look at those amazingly beautiful blue eyes!!!

Teething and Not Sleeping

Parker has 2 teeth now. One has the bottom part broken through and the other one has just a small corner through. My poor baby is hurting. It's making it hard for him to sleep.

He only wants Mommy to rock him while sleeping. He can be sound asleep in my arms and the moment I lay him down in his crib, he wakes up. 

I'm exhausted. Dead. Tired.

This is something everyone said during pregnancy, "Sleep as much as you can now," "Sleep now because you won't be able to when he comes." 

Well they were right but you are never prepared for how much you will actually miss sleeping. 

So last night I felt like I had to do something about Parker wanting to be rocked. My mom has said a few times that I was the same way and she had to let me cry it out in the crib. 

I laid him down and let him cry until he fell asleep.

It was the longest 45 minutes. And I cried the entire time and even when he was asleep. That was hard on me. But he slept until 7 o'clock. 

Now naps . . . Parker will only nap if I'm rocking him. Sound familiar? So right now as I type this, he is crying in his crib. This time I have my ipad in his room and Pandora is playing country music. {the entire time I was pregnant, Keith would play his guitar and Parker would go crazy in my belly} 

He loves country music. It soothes him. 

From now on, I am going to turn on some country music, lay P in his crib, and walk away. 

I may need some prayers. Listening to your baby cry is so hard. 

I am happy to say that Parker fell asleep during all of this. :-) Now I will have Mommy time to do whatever I may need {or want} to do. That part is exciting! 

On a separate note, we found a new sitter for P and I am beyond thrilled with who we found. She is a friend of mine and I have known her for like forever! She has 3 kiddos of her own, 2 are in school and the other one is home with her during the day. She will only be keeping Parker and her little girl! I know he will be in great hands! 

{so much weight lifted from my shoulders}