it's always something

Grams and C watching Cinderella
The boys!


Out to breakfast with Grams!
The outdoor living room on our trip to Buena Vista!
Enjoying the Mt. Princeton hotsprings on a cold day

Happy Hour with the whole family!

I just briefly read over my last post and think it is funny that I wrote the post on the one day in the past few months that we actually found some relief. Things continue to be rough!

After Sheldon started eating again, he stopped sleeping. I have no idea why or what has caused this, but it's beyond exhausting. For the past few weeks, he has been awake between 4 and 8 times a night. Not just for a few minutes- where I can go put his paci back in and he falls asleep. Sometimes, we are up with him for 2 hours. We try everything... rocking him, walking with him, colic calm, ibuprofen, oragel, unswaddling, moving him to new locations... etc. He seems restless and uncomfortable and we'll find him arching his back and screaming out. We're not sure if it is caused by the sudden addition of solid foods, his formula, over stimulation... We have been working on scaling back the solid foods to two basic things- bananas and sweet potatoes. His formula is for fussiness and gas, so I am not sure that changing it (again) will help. Needless to say, it has been a trying situation- especially on top of the fact that Ryan has been working crazy long hours and Coranelle is showing her defiance in full force these days. It's hard to believe that I could be this tired and sleep deprived when my son is 7 months old. But, we are praying and hoping that Sheldon works through this soon and we can get back to "normal".

He is generally such a happy kid that it is hard that sleep seems to be such and ordeal. He is waking much more often during naps too, and is hard to soothe back to sleep. One of the few things that works (which could quickly get us into trouble), is to move him onto our bed and tuck a sheet over him and turn the bathroom fan on. For some reason, this sometimes helps him go back to sleep during naps. ??? I don't know why it works, but I have allowed it out of desperation.

Fortunately- the last two nights, we have only been up with him once or twice and that makes a huge difference. Any thoughts or suggestions?

On a much happier and lighter note- we did enjoy a little getaway this past weekend with Ryan's parents. The weather was freezing and windy, so we didn't get much walking or playing outside in. But, we did have a chance to relax, chat, play with the kids, enjoy daddy being around and soak up good views and a change of pace.