NO, I'm not pregnant. But my aunt is! Both of my aunts are! In fact, they're both so pregnant, that one of them is in labor now! So here soon, James is going to have other babies to play with, ALL of which are little boys =] It's safe to say that we're excited about all the babies!
Other than that, today has been pretty normal. James woke up around eight o'clock after sleeping REALLY well last night. James has been sleeping in our bed a lot =\, and Jesse and I are starting to get really grumpy about it. Not only does our 18 pound baby sleep between us at night, he punches us in the face, scratches us, pulls our hair, and wiggles around so much that by the end of the night, we're basically falling off of the bed because James is taking up so much room.
Last night was the last straw. It was ten o'clock and after a really long day, we both had had enough. James was wound for sound and instead of rocking him and trying to get him to calm down, we put him in his crib, went into the living room, and let him cry it out. We felt horrible about it. But we truly are just DONE with not having our bed to ourselves.
We've attempted before to get him to sleep in his crib and on those attempts, he screamed his head off for two hours before finally falling asleep. Of course, before we put him to bed, we changed him, bed him, gave him lots of love and left it at that. But nothing worked. We'd go in and comfort him every fifteen minutes or so, patting his back and such, but he'd still scream.
We expected last night to be the same and in truth, it started out the same. About eight minutes in I looked online for ways to get a six month old to go to sleep. After researching I found that white noise makers (which I found on youtube) can really help. So we put my laptop in the bedroom with the white noise going and after twenty minutes, he fell asleep! Jesse and I were ACTUALLY able to sleep in our own bed by ourselves! It was nice being able to curl up with my handsome man and admire our baby from afar (across the room that is). But it was great. So James slept from about ten thirty to four, which is really good for him! Hopefully if we keep it up and get him on a routine, he'll sleep even longer.
So no pictures on this one! This weekend I'm taking more Christmas pictures for a friend here in town, and I'll be sure to post some of those!
As always, feel free to follow my adventures with James at amazingjames.blogspot.com and to comment about whatever your little heart desires.
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