Expressions

Leland has some pretty great expressions.

This one is my favorite!

He knows what he wants.

So remember that post where I talked about how I was still rocking my baby to sleep for every nap?

Yea, that ended this weekend. But not because of me. On Friday, Leland decided he was not going to sleep on me when I tried to rock him to sleep, instead he would throw a fit, cry and arch his back. This meant Leland only took two 30 minute naps on Friday, but he was surprisingly happy for that. The first one was while grocery shopping, he passed out in the ergo. The second one was in the car.

So come Saturday, we tried this method (rocking to sleep) one last time to only have it fail. The only other option was putting him in his crib. I made sure he was feed and happy, gave him his blanket and binkie and shut the door. We turned the baby monitor on to listen for screaming, but it never came. We also had to deal with a bad kitty, that kept trying to open the damn door, very obnoxious.

And I am so thankful for this, sure it took him a bit to fall asleep, but he didn't cry at all. There was just a bit of fussing, his tired fussing, and there was sighing (this kid knows how to sigh), but no crying. I don't think I could handle the crying, which is why we waited so long to do this method of napping. Crying it out just isn't for us, but I can totally see the need for it if your kid just won't go to sleep any other way.

So I guess he knew what he wanted, we just had to figure it out.

And so for his three naps on Saturday we followed this routine, and they were all successful, meaning no crying and falling asleep by himself. Sunday morning when he was getting tired, I did the same and he actually fell asleep while I was feeding him (he does this when he goes to sleep at night), but he slightly woke back up when I put him in his crib. But no worries, it just took some sighing and binkie and he was asleep in no time.

Now I don't know what to do with my free time.

Cheese

Cheeser:

Good photos are a challenge

Good photos are becoming harder to come by.

Someone is a squiggly, wiggly worm. And I think it is only going to get worse.

Feet are for bouncing

So this kid is now okay with standing and putting pressure on his feet. Something I am not encouraging but Daddy does, apparently Daddy doesn't know this leads to walking, something we should avoid.

But the funny thing is he won't move his feet. He will bounce but once he is standing, his feet are planted.

And now he likes his walk and stand toy (which by the way was a pain in the ass to assemble), he will stand but if it moves, his feet won't.

See the leaning. It is pretty funny.