Catching up

Time to catch up.  Nothing like sitting and listening to a baby crying to get you to blog.

Yep, that's right.  We're sleep training.  Kate is at my parents' house so she can actually sleep.  Daddy's drinking wine.  And, well, I'm blogging.  Our current plan?  Go in after 5 minutes until he's asleep.  We are on Cycle #1 Calming #4.  So far the Daily Show is keeping us sufficiently distracted to tolerate this.  Might be another story at 3 in the morning...

Meanwhile...

Kate's parent-teacher conference was today.  How funny is that?  Three years old, and parent-teacher conferences.  They had mostly good things to say.  She's ahead in fine motor, writing skills, and other academic areas.  Socially though, my little one is a rabalrouser.  She, apparently, is very much in a phase of trying out asserting herself and seeing what happens.  Which is funny, because the other feedback we got is that Kate is timid (i.e. won't answer questions in front of the class, etc.).

She's loving her baby brother and has been just amazing.  She reads to him, talks to him when he's upset, wants to carry him (just waiting for that day she tries when I'm not looking), and now feeds him.

Jacob continues to have some problems... Apparently, our bottle problem was a bad bottle and a bad nipple. We started with Born Free and then tried the faster nipple and he still hated it.  Then we switched to Dr. Brown and he loved it for a week then refused it.  Finally got faster nipples and he's back to eating again.  Sleep, though, is still lousy.  This week, most nights, he was up almost every hour.  Last night I felt blessed to get a 3 hour chunk.  Thus our evening venture.

(Still crying, by the way)

We'll see how we do.  Hopefully between the two of us we can stick this out and get us all better sleep because momma can't talk this much longer...