Month: January 2016

Beckett is going through his 4 month sleep regression. Some people call it the wonder weeks or leap weeks. Whatever it’s called it just sucks. I am TIRED, SO TIRED. 

I came upstairs with him at 7:30 last night. I nursed him to sleep and went back down so I could tuck Lucy in. I miss tucking her in. It’s been Jon’s job lately since Beckett is pretty demanding at night. After I tucked her in, said good night to Chloe and Megan I quietly crawled back into bed. Beckett was fast asleep in his bassinet. Until my eyes finally closed. It’s like an automatic button. Mine close, his open. So I scooped him up and tried putting him back to sleep. Every time I would put him down his eyes would open and he would cry. This went on until 2:45am. By that point I just needed some sleep so I stumbled to his room and placed him in his crib. I made my way back to bed and looked over at the monitor and saw him staring at me  

 
Like “are you kidding me?” “Do you think this is going to work?” “I’m just going to sit here and stare at you until you come get me” “you’re so foolish, mama” ” I know it’s working, you’re feeling guilty” Then he pooped and I knew I couldn’t leave him in a messy diaper so I walked back in his room and as soon as he saw me he gave me the biggest smile. I felt like he was mocking me. So I didn’t make eye contact. I mistakenly made eye contact during the diaper change and he gave me another big smile. Oh man! This kid knew exactly what he was doing. Little stinker. So I scooped him back up, kissed his little face, nursed him and rocked him back to sleep. As soon as he was in a deep slumber I ever so gently placed him back in his crib and his eyes popped open and again he gave me the biggest smile. So once again I scooped him up, took him back to my bed and decided that co-sleeping would be our thing. 

   
    
   
Lucky little guy 

Just a few pictures from Megan’s semi

Megan had a few friends over before the dance to get ready

And just because

He would make the cutest date ever!!

Makes me want to get dressed up and go somewhere fun!!

Wow! Time sure is flying by now!! I can’t believe this little boy is already 3 months old. December was such a busy month for us and looking back at the beginning it’s obvious how much he’s already changed!!

Weight: Beckett didn’t have a dr’s appointment this month so I’m going by our bathroom scale and he’s a whopping 13 pounds. (Skinny little thing).

Loves: He still loves to be held and walked around. We spent the month dancing around to Christmas music, which he loved too.

Dislikes: the car seat. This boy will scream his little head off without giving in. He hasn’t been too crazy about taking walks in the stroller lately and I think it’s because he would rather be held.

Sleeps: He must be going through some sort of growth spurt because he won’t sleep more than 4 hours at a time right now. It’s been a rough couple of weeks. He takes little cat naps throughout the day.

He’s been talking up a storm lately. It’s so cute to watch him test out his voice. He moves his tongue in different shapes to make different sounds, gets louder and softer. I’ve been giving raspberries to him and when I do he sticks his tongue out too. I think it’s only a matter of weeks before he’s giving them right back to me. He’s still drooling a lot and sticking his hands in his mouth. He’s trying to roll from his back to his tummy and almost made it all the way over the other day. He will lay under his play mat for about 20-30 minutes at a time listening to the music and watching the lights.  He’s noticing the dog more lately and turning his head whenever someone calls his name. Just this morning he grabbed on to his toes when I was changing his diaper. I can’t wait to see what this next month brings 🙂

A month of pictures:

sleep baby

funny face

selfie time

bumbo shots

christening

happy baby

sad baby

sweetest baby

New Year baby

I love you, baby!!!! Happy 3 months!

Marlene gave us tickets to go see Annie in Providence for Christmas. This is most always a mommy date (Jon joined in once to see Elf) but this year I couldn’t leave Beckett so all four tickets went straight to the girls. Jon and I dropped the girls off at the PPAC and headed straight to East Providence to our favorite little Middle Eastern sandwich shop. Beckett loved it:

  
Look at that excited little face!! Jon and I hadn’t been in that area since before we moved. It was EXACTLY the same!! I joked that we should stop and get Beckett his first pair of Dr. Martens while we were there and sure enough the shoe store on the corner was still open and the boots were still in the window. We even stopped to take a selfie in front of our first date spot, Andrea’s:

  
We were entertained with selfies that the girls sent to us before the play started 

   
  
I loved the fact that they all got to enjoy this together. It was their first official sister date. How lucky are they that have each other?? Life long bff’s.