Sleeping Update

First, thank you all for your supportive comments! Update...crying hasn't worked. It has made him worse...or it is all timing. He screams like we are cutting his head off now! The first few nights were not dramatic or all that difficult...but it has just gotten worse. I also think he is cutting his top teeth. I think we are going to try this again in a few weeks. But for now...we are calling it off!

Scrub a dub dub- I love to splash in the tub!

Aiden discovered how to splash! He use to kick his feet when he was little, but you know that he didn't know cause and effect....well, he does now! It was so cute!

Party- 3AM!

Well, it didn't start at 3 AM but I think it lasted past 3AM. I am not sure at this point. We are going to try the cry it out method. It is drastic but here it is 9 months now, and he continues to wake up numerous times in the night and demands us. WE ARE TIRED! We can't keep doing this. We have to try something. I am not functioning well, and I don't think Russ is at his prime either. I was so tired last and getting so angry. That isn't good. Then I just broke down and cried.

Parenting is hard but it is so much harder at 1:50 in the morning with your son looking up at you and smiling and wanting to play when all you want to do it go back to sleep because you are so tired. And the thing is...I think if this had happened on Monday night, I would feel differently. As the work week goes on, the more tired I get.

Teeth, Clapping and Crawling

Aiden officially has two front teeth! The second one just appeared earlier this week. Over the weekend, he figured out how to clap, and I think this is my favorite thing he does right now besides putting his chin to his chest and looking up at you with a serious face! And he is crawling...well, I should say pulling himself and lunging himself every where. He is on the move! He is trying to stand up too! It won't be too much longer before he chases the dogs all over the place. Those dogs won't know what to think.

Russ' grandmother turned 85 this weekend, and we were at her house for a big birthday party on Sunday. Aiden was a huge hit with everyone, and we stayed after everyone else left so he could spend some time with his great grammy! She just loves him so much; she giggles the whole time she is with him!

Pictures Recovered!

A local camera shop was able to save my photos! Yippee!!! Here is Aiden as a monkey for his first Halloween!

Stuff

So our camera has all these cute pictures of Aiden in his costume but for some reason, it can't transfer the photos! So for right now, I have no pictures! It kills me! I am not sure if we can save them or not. Boo!

Russ and I have been looking at our finances, and we looked at how much we try to make our life convienent, and how much we end up spending to make our life a bit easier...meaning, we tend to eat on the go a lot thinking that the two or three bucks is no big deal. Well, our mouths hit the floor! I mean we knew it but to actually do the math- So we have vowed to make breakfast each morning at home, but we have also vowed to have one date night a month. We tried that before but didn't stick to it. So that is our plan.

I hope it works!