Hello I am back.
This will mainly be a mommy blog.
Posts will come on Mondays and Thursdays to start.
I'll show you the days of me and keep you updated on
all the new challenges I face staying at home.
BIG NEWS.
My boyfriend (now fiance) and I are now engaged
and getting married on May 2, 2015!
So you will all be in on the journey of planning
a simple low budget wedding.
That is a whole other project I'm just not prepared for!
Anyway, in current news.
Being a stay at home Mommy is a challenge all in itself.
Maybe I just haven't gotten the hang of it or this is really how it is for everyone.
I feel defeated every single day.
My son is incredible. He is a year and six months. I absolutely adore him!
However he has reached that separation anxiety stage and hates when I leave him,
or walk away from him, or I am not carrying him.
I have been waiting for the day my son became
more lovey and affectionate
because at about the age of four months
he decided he was a super independent baby
and did not need mommy as much as she thought.
I have been attempting to write this blog for over an hour and as you can see,
I have not written very much.
Through this separation anxiety he has developed,
he has also become very difficult to put down to sleep.
He has always been a great sleeper right out of the gate.
Now, not so much. I've read in countless books and articles
and other mommy blogs about how you should not break the regular routine
and really stick with it and just endure the few days or weeks of crazy.
Well you've guessed it. I have not being doing so.
Well, in part. Kevin (my son) has been wanting to be held before snoozing.
So Jacob (my fiance) and I have been going through the regular motions
of the night night time routine.
Mom and Dad "close the door"
Kevin *closes*
Mom and Dad " turn off the light"
Kevin *turns of light*
Mom and Dad "Reeeaadddyy?"
"1....2 *kisses*....3!"
and we lay him in his crib.
Well lately we do not get to make it passed "2"
before one of us, usually Jacob because it's easier for him
to put him in the crib peacefully, will have to rock Kevin
until he is just about asleep and hope that he stays down.
So today was the first day of nap time without Dad and
needless to say it took about an hour to get him to just settle down.
it then took about another 20 minutes before he finally crashed out.
Now this was the month that we were going to try to wean him off the
bottle because we did not do the whole... "one year.. no bottle" thing.
Although we did do that with binkies, cold turkey, and never looked back.
So as I write this I can hear my little monster making all types of noises.
That's my queue to run and jump in the shower before he loses his mind.
So all I can say about the sleep regression is.
Do what feels comfortable for you and your little monster.
We are doing a mixture of what alllll the books say.
We are doing our best to stick with our routine,
but they are only little for so long and need/want you to rock them.
So that is just what I will be doing until it become a greater problem.
However, my son has always done pretty well with getting back on
track all by himself. I'm not too worried about this bump.
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