Sleeplessness & Stickiness

Here's Isaac at breakfast this morning. Brad and I had left the table for a minute to get something, and while we were gone December poured out Isaac's baby food all over the table in front of him. He immediately began playing with it and getting himself entirely covered in a pear-rasberry goo.

Look at his hair! It's a sticky mess that stands out straight from his head. Haha! It's a peachy color so that you can't see it very well, but he was extremely sticky.

December wanted her picture taken, too, so this is her after we had finished breakfast...and right before she had gotten a sliver from our railing. Yikes! She freaked out when we tried to use the tweasers and remove it...as in, we had to physically restrain her in order to get it out! The poor thing. In the words of December, "I didn't like Daddy doing that! I thought he was going to cut my finger off!" But she's fine now.

Things have been a bit rough here lately. We haven't slept though the night for close to a year now (not since before Isaac was born...he has never slept through the night), so we've finally decided enough is enough! What I desire most in the world right now is to lay my head down on my pillow at night and not wake up until the morning. I can't remember what sleeping like that would be like! So we have been intentionally sleep-training Isaac for the past week and a bit. I admit it -- it's rough going!

He did very, very poorly the first few nights (as in waking up at least once per hour), but then he started doing longer stretches, with Sunday night as his best night (a 6-hour stretch!!!). But the past couple nights have been horrendous again. This time he has a new trick up his sleeve. He is getting up in the wee hours of the morning, and instead off going back down again, he decides to stay up -- for one to two hours. And that means I am awake with him, standing at his cribside...there is no sleeping while Isaac is awake!

Boy, that makes for exhausted days. This morning I was on the verge of giving up this whole sleep training thing -- we were getting more sleep before we started all of this! But I'm currently thinking that I'll persevere...and wildly hope that we see steady improvement soon.

Brad is in the throes of end-of-semester busyness. Papers, quizzes, final exams, etc. Not to mention mechanical troubles with our van. So we're seeing less of him than we usually do! December is doing well, though, and she just learned how to whistle yesterday. :o) So that's life in our world at the moment...