Weekly Update

Here's another weekly update....

Sleeping

James has had a rougher sleeping time this week but overall it's still pretty good.  We started trying to stretch to 3.5 hours at night and by last night he was doing it pretty well.  However, one day and night this week he must have been having a growth spurt and woke up starving every 2.5 hours.  While we want him to grow this was difficult to take at night!  He's been a little resistant to getting himself to sleep which we've started trying (putting him down awake).  He might still be a little young for that so we're taking it slow.

Eating

He's still eating pretty good.  He's pretty consistent with his eating times.  He has had a few major spit up episodes this week and a little bit of a tummy ache a few times.  We think we might have isolated it to after I've eaten a lot of cheese or drank a large quantity of milk so for right now I'm trying to limit those things to see if it helps.  So far it seems to be but he's still spitting up small amounts maybe once every other feeding.  Our pediatrician told us that this was very normal though.

Schedule

I kind of feel like I cover all of these topics in the sleeping category.  :)  Since we're Babywise parents we've decided that our first feeding of the day is going to be around 6:30 or 7.  We're still trying to figure out the ideal way that this works out with the longer night cycles but so far it's working ok.  The thing is that we're putting him straight back to sleep after that feeding so his first feeding with wake time isn't until 9:30 which isn't perfect and as he gets older and more awake that's going to have to change since we'll have to be up and out to take Charlotte to school during that time.  When that happens we'll probably move that first feeding of the day to 7 so that I can feed him and keep him awake and still get Charlotte up and feed her.

Charlotte

Charlotte is still doing great.  It is hard balancing two and she is still a little touchy when she feels like she's not getting enough attention but overall she's doing great.  So far she hasn't regressed with potty training or sleeping or anything which we are very thankful for.  It's interesting to me though that while she loves him and wants to know where he is at all times, say goodbye and night to him, etc she refuses to hold him and rarely touches him.  But that's perfectly fine and honestly is one less worry that we have since she's not wanting to love on him too much!  It has impressed me that she doesn't mind when anyone holds him and isn't acting jealous of anyone paying him attention at all.  I'm guessing that might end eventually but for right now she is handling the transition very well.

Help
I said that this week was going to be our first "real" week but it really didn't turn out like that.  I took Charlotte to gymnastics on Monday but Kay kept James so that we could go just the two of us.  And I did pick Charlotte up with James on Tuesday but that's the only time I got or took her to school.  It's a little more difficult to do things like that by myself since I still am not supposed to pick up James in his car seat but I am feeling much better and would expect in another week to be basically back to normal.  I'm planning on trying more by myself this week so hopefully that will go well!