3 Months

Griffin is three months already! We have gotten back into a good routine and hopefully it'll last for a while now. 

I started sleep training a little over a week ago. It got to the point that once we had him asleep and put him down, he'd wake right back up. For his naps, I was able to put him down drowsy and he'd fall asleep on his own, but that became a thing of the past and he required to be rocked to sleep and that became harder since Kort has started getting into everything once I left the room. SO, I started what I did with Kort. The Good Night, Sleep Tight book. The first night I had to pick him up after him crying for over an hour. Second night he finally fell asleep on his own after an hour and a half. Next night was 45 minutes and got less from there. However, he's not as easy to just sit next to the crib and try to comfort by patting and shh ing. So the book says with those babies sometimes they do better without you in the room and just make quick visits every 15 minutes or so. That's what I've began having to do. I'm trying to work on getting him more drowsy so he doesn't cry as long. Last night he only cried for 10 minutes and he was out! So it's definitely getting better. And with this, he's sleeping through the night! His naps are about an hour or more now also! He cries a little for his naps but it helps him sleep longer since he falls asleep on his own. We also just moved his pack n play into our guest room and he's been still sleeping great. He may be in there for a while until Kort is ready to share a room. He wakes up around 9, awake for a little over an hour, about hour and a half nap. Takes usually 3 good ones and sometimes a short 30 minute one late afternoon/early evening. Bed time has been around 9:30 but I'm trying to make it a little earlier. 

Griffin has rolled over a few times from his belly to back. He likes to scoot on his belly already. I put him on his blanket and when I go back to check on him he's already off of it! He loves kicking his feet and has giggled a few times. He is very vocal now and jabbers nonstop! He's gained probably about another pound since his checkup and is 14 something! He's already wearing clothes Kort was wearing at 6 months. It's not like he's a super chunk and he only nurses about seven minutes each side. He's just a lot different than Kort. 

Things are going well though. He's getting to the point of starting to hit lots of milestones like more laughing, rolling over, and then sitting up! I'll take it week by week though :)

Memorial Day

I figure I am way behind on blogging. I usually do it all on the computer, but since it's in the everything room where Kort can't keep his hands off of anything and I take nap time for myself whenever I can get it, I am now resorting to the blogger app and trying to post from my phone. Anyway, moving on.

We had basically agreed that we wanted to go camping for Memorial Day weekend. The weather forecast didn't look too great, but we've camped in the rain before (nothing new to Washington), and just put up tarps over the chair area, etc. We were trying to talk our friends into coming so it'd be more fun. They bailed out the day before but I don't blame them. They didn't have the gear yet anyway. So off we went just our family. 

Eastern Oklahoma has more rolling hills and greenery so we found a state park about 2 hours away. We got there around 7, which was close to Kort's bedtime. Good thing Griffin napped the whole drive. Clay worked on getting the fire started, I was putting up the tent, Griffin was enjoying the bouncer, and Kort was running around trying to get in the car. Amid the chaos, Kort ended up in the car. I came to find he had dumped a 5 hour energy drink on the drivers seat. (This is important to know). Finally Clay got the fire going. He got Kort a hot dog while I was getting Griffin ready for bed. Later Clay was roasting marshmallows and after he took it out of the fire, Kort grabbed the other empty side of the roaster. Cue nonstop screaming. Good thing we had our first aid kit we just put together with all that stuff to help with burns. Finally I got Griffin to sleep and ate while Clay got Kort ready for bed. Maybe around 45 minutes later we were falling asleep around 11. Probably an hour later Kort was awake kicking all over and whining. This went on for an hour or so. Then he finally konked out again. About another hour later he woke up again doing the same things. More time goes by trying to comfort him and put him back to sleep. In the meantime, Griffin wakes up to eat. Oh, and about 3 campsites down the people were playing their loud country music radio (until about 3:00). Clay just took Kort into the car to fall asleep. I got Griffin back asleep and then they came back in to the tent. Finally some sleep. Kort was then up at the butt crack of dawn around 7. Clay took him to go play outside, and I couldn't fall back asleep. So we got about 3 hours of sleep. 

Ok, so our thoughts on why Kort slept (or didn't sleep) the way he did.

1. We have outgrown our tent. He needed his room just like we did.

2. Naturally if you opened a bottle of liquid, say a 5 hour energy drink that smelled good, you'd take a sip at least. Then dump the rest for fun on the carseat.

So he was probably wired on that energy sip he may have gotten and had a hard time sleeping. Boy, was that ever a fun night. The baby even slept better.

We had baked oatmeal for breakfast. Then we decided we were already bored. There was basically only boating and water stuff to do where we were at. We finally decided we didn't want to go through another night like that again and were packed up by 11. We hadn't even left the campground when Kort had already fallen asleep. Go figure. 

Griffin once again slept the whole way home. Thank goodness. 

We got back into town and went shopping to make our own slip n slide! That will be another post coming hopefully. We just relaxed and caught up on sleep the rest of the weekend. We also had some friends over for kabobs Monday night. It was nice to have Clay an extra day!