But not everything has been terrible. The kids are both cute and seem to really like each other. This video is old by now (taken February 10th) but it's cuter than the one I took this week, and we all know I'm going for entertainment value here.
Hazel's mullet is long enough for pigtails now! Sadly, there's still a whole chunk on the top that may never grow past her ears, but at least it lays flat on her head.
Other current fascinations: turning pages in books, even books without pictures; playing with Gaston, Prince Phillip and Derrick; pretending to be villains (Maleficent, the "scary witch" from Sleeping Beauty, the "mean queen" from Snow White, and she likes me to be Gaston); changing her clothes; pretending the living room is the ocean; clicking buckles together, then begging me to undo them so she can click them together again.
Jack weighed 14 pounds last week! He's 6 weeks old now. Can you believe it? He loves to cuddle. He's starting to coo, which is absolutely melting my heart. His eyelashes are getting long. He's always been a big smiler, but now he's starting to smile socially instead of just when he's eating or sleeping. He's starting to get rolls! (Hazel never had rolls - she was such a skinny, starved baby.) Jack can go six hours at night without waking up, although he doesn't do that every night yet. Sometimes he's still up every three.I'm sad that the red-eye reducer wouldn't get rid of Jack's scary eyes in this picture.
The big question looming over my head is when to put Jack in Hazel's room. First we had him in mine and Todd's room. Then we moved him to the living room so we could sleep better, but we had to keep putting him in the bathroom after his last feeding so he wouldn't wake up when Hazel came out in the morning. Now he's been going straight to the bathroom for the night, but then it makes orchestrating showers tricky. And Hazel obviously needs to be potty trained asap, so we've got to get him out of the bathroom so she can use it. So do I put him in Hazel's room now, or back in mine? I just see both options as making me tired. If I put him in Hazel's room now, will either of my kids get enough sleep? If I put him in our room, he's going in our little half-bath. But that's a short-lived solution, because he's pretty close to not fitting in his Moses basket anymore. We've got a pack and play we could put him in, but I have just really loved not waking up to him until he's really crying, and that wouldn't fit in our little half bath.Advice?
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Hey Angie,
Jack and I totally SCREWED this up with Fiona and Ruby, so maybe you can learn from our mistakes and come up with a better plan. We put Ru and Fiona into the same room as soon as we got here to Abu Dhabi. Well, we were so scared that Fiona would wake Ruby that we jumped every time we heard a sound and, hence, we have a nearly 10-month-old who still doesn't sleep longer than 4-5 hours reliably. So I'd recommend that you don't put them together until you see if Hazel can sleep through his wake-up crying (turns out that Ruby could do this all along!!). We are planning on putting the next baby in the living room or kitchen until he/she sleeps through the night and then adding the sibling factor. We put up a baby gate outside Ru's door (screwed into the door frame) so that when she opens the door in the morning, she is still in her room. Maybe that would help with Hazel in the morning?? Good luck-- I hear you about the two kids! We hang up all of Ru's clothes and keep her dresser in the closet so she doesn't play dress-up too much. Also recommend DUCT TAPE for the night time diapers. I read about it in Toddler 411 and it was AWESOME! Might help keep Hazel in her drawers! Is that enough unsolicited advice??!! :)
Dang Angie, I must say you are looking good. You do not look sleep deprived at all or that you only had a baby 6 weeks ago!
From OUR experience w/ Macey and MIles, Macey really did get used to Miles pretty fast. We had a few bad nights, but they both got used to it as quick as everyone said they would.
So, my advice would be, just do it. Put him in there and see how it goes. Hazel will hopefully learn to sleep through the crying.
good luck, take it easy, don't stress and remember, this won't last forever . :)
I'm glad I saw the advice others gave you since I've been worried about the sleeping problem too...and I won't be there for 2 more months! When our #2 comes I'm definitely going to be asking you what worked! Oh and BTW, Jack is SUCH a cute little baby...love the video!
My kids have slept in the same room as well and they don't wake up to each other crying. My oldest is a pretty light sleeper, but he doesn't seem to be disturbed by the crying so I agree you should just do it.
Oh and for the diaper thing.... yeah I have been suffering that for a while too. I put Sariah in footed pajamas at night and then pin up the zipper with one of those safety diaper pins. At least it gets us through the night. It doesn't do much for the daytime stripping but hey what can you do?
Princesses will rule no matter how large their kingdom..
I'm with everyone else--just do it. and who knows, maybe hazel will quit her nighttime antics if she knows the baby is trying to sleep?
No advice here, but I totally empathize with the fatigue. It pretty much sucks.
Jack is huge.
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