What Happened Here?

I wonder where things went wrong.  It used to be, when it was bedtime, we would tuck Wyatt in for the night and not hear a peep out of him for 13 hours. This is the stage we are at with Brooklyn right now.  Around seven-o-clock she sees her night-night bottle being made and heads down the [...]

He Sleeps with a Teddy Bear

Every time we start a new daycare/preschool there are these long forms you need to fill out. (We should have this memorized by now!) Three pages long. And it’s the same everywhere, so it must be a universal form to torture parents.  There are some sections of it that always make me chuckle when I [...]

Ferberizing… take three

I know everyone is dying to know how the ferberizing is going. Here’s a summary… Night one: Brooklyn woke up around 2:30 – pretty typical. I let her cry the standard 10 minutes, then went in, reassured her and left the room.  Screams followed me out. My heart broke a bit, but I tried to [...]

A day in my life…..

Lately, my days have been starting around 3 am….. As I lay in bed waiting for the inevitable cry from the nursery, I wonder to myself how have I gotten so used to getting up again in the middle of the night that I am actually waking up before the baby? I am SO supposed [...]

Partly Cloudy with a Hint of Bravery

I don’t know what it is about western North Dakota, but we sure do get storms out here. I don’t remember the weather being quite as severe growing up on the eastern half of the state. Sure, we had storms, but out here we have house-rattling, Jurassic-Park-water-glass-quivering, lightening-blinding storms. And they all seem to happen [...]

Rock-a-Bye

Uhg. Brooklyn has started getting up in the middle of the night again. What happened to my baby who never cries and sleeps 12 hours at night? Where did she go? At least she still doesn’t cry.  Plus, we had a good run.  5 weeks old until 21 weeks old she gave me my sleep [...]

Good Morning Sunshine!

Every morning when Wyatt wakes up, he starts talking/singing to himself. Softly at first, then louder, and louder.  I usually let him do this for a while hoping he’ll decide to snooze a bit longer.  Hasn’t happened yet, but I’m still hopeful every morning.  Once he gets sick of talking to himself, he’ll start yelling [...]