James is 50 weeks old: Going full-penguin
Lisa writes: I get emotionally attached to some of his cute little outfits. I find them adorable and want him to wear them over and over because I know he'll grow out of them in, oh, 45 minutes. This is the "full-penguin:" penguin pants, penguin onesie, penguin sweater (wool blend! hand wash! nutso!)
In the past five days or so James has gone from Army crawling to tentatively getting up on all fours to getting around FAST. He can race across a room now. He's also gotten a lot more confident about pulling himself to standing, even without real handholds (like pulling himself up against a bare wall), and he can always sit back down again EXCEPT at night. Twice now we've heard him crying in his crib and, when he didn't stop after a couple of minutes, we went in to comfort him and found him standing up, stuck and weeping, because he was too tired and confused to figure out how to get back down.
The crib-crying has been a nightly thing for the past 9 nights. A sad record. He's teething again (uppers) and it's taking a long time. We track how much he eats and sleeps, and he's sleeping a full three hours per day less than usual, even with Tylenol and OraJel and frozen chewy toys. It's a vicious cycle because the more tired he is, the crankier he is and the harder it is to get him to sleep. Two teeth down; 18 to go. Poor guy.
If you've been doing the math, you'll realize that 50 weeks old means he's two weeks shy of a year. That's all I'm going to say about that.
In the past five days or so James has gone from Army crawling to tentatively getting up on all fours to getting around FAST. He can race across a room now. He's also gotten a lot more confident about pulling himself to standing, even without real handholds (like pulling himself up against a bare wall), and he can always sit back down again EXCEPT at night. Twice now we've heard him crying in his crib and, when he didn't stop after a couple of minutes, we went in to comfort him and found him standing up, stuck and weeping, because he was too tired and confused to figure out how to get back down.
The crib-crying has been a nightly thing for the past 9 nights. A sad record. He's teething again (uppers) and it's taking a long time. We track how much he eats and sleeps, and he's sleeping a full three hours per day less than usual, even with Tylenol and OraJel and frozen chewy toys. It's a vicious cycle because the more tired he is, the crankier he is and the harder it is to get him to sleep. Two teeth down; 18 to go. Poor guy.
If you've been doing the math, you'll realize that 50 weeks old means he's two weeks shy of a year. That's all I'm going to say about that.
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