Showing posts with label 5 months. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 5 months. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The Sleep Solution




Getting Ollie to nap can sometimes be challenging. He will often cry off and on for 45 minutes to sleep for 30 minutes. I have found the sleep solution: a blankie. Ollie has taken to a blue blanket with a dog head on it. I started giving it to him at naps because he liked to snuggle up to it and it calmed him right now. I planned to only let him have it during the day because my paranoia had set in and I was convinced he's suffocate while I was sleeping. Well, two nights ago he bawled hysterically until I gave it to him. Then, he was fast asleep.  I was worried to leave him alone with it, so I snuck in & tried to take it around 10 pm (mind you he'd been asleep for 3 hours!). I took it and walked out.  Not one foot out the door he started wailing! "You have got to be kidding me!?" So I went in and gave it back. He went right back to sleep! I have given in and let him have it. It is so sweet.  

As far as sleep goes, he has been going to bed at 7 pm, getting up to eat at 5 am and then going
back to bed until 7 or 7:30. He is still taking three to five forty minute naps a day.  Occasionally , he will sleep an hour. On Saturday he slept for two! So if you need something to pray for, it's good naps. I would love to move him to two longer naps a day. I can't ask for him to be any better at night. What a good boy!



Sunday, February 1, 2009

Caught on Tape: Ollie Rolling Over!


I've caught Ollie on tape rolling over. As you can see, he is very methodical. It's amazing how excited you can get about something as simple as rolling over or how anxious you can be when they just don't seem to be getting it. Oh well, I figure by 2 years old it won't really matter if he rolled over a week early or a month late!