Sleep and Relaxation

So at the advice of a "professional", we decided to start putting the baby gate back in Ryan's door to keep him from coming downstairs at all hours. Apparently he might have been thinking that this was good bonding time , going through a growth spurt, or like the younger ones when they learn something new their minds start racing and they just can't sleep.

We started back with the baby gate on Tuesday night, Wednesday morning was bad because he tried to get out of his room and dropped his "blue blanket" on the opposite side and got upset. But since then it's been wonderful. I'm sure he's still waking up (maybe) but if he is, he's not making any noise. We're actually back to the 7:30 wake up times for him. It's been great.

And what I'm even more excited about is that Brayden is starting to get more on the same morning schedule as Ryan. He normally would sleep until 9 or even 10am, which sounds great but when you're already up and have your day going, it's hard to get things done with a sleeping baby. Errands and play time in the morning were always hard to get in. But not anymore. It's even better that Brayden's afternoon nap is the same time as Ryan's nap. Schedules can be a great thing.

This morning while eating breakfast, Ryan asked if he could play with his glitter glue. So we got out the art supplies. Glitter glue time usually consists of squirting as much of the glue on the paper as possible in great big globs. Glitter glue ran out so we resorted to normal elmer's glue. There's something about glue that kids just love. When I worked with pre-schoolers they all did the same thing, glue blobs so large it took over night to dry.

So now we're just playing a little and watching some cartoons. The equivalent to my single day Sunday's when I would stay in my PJs in bed all day with cereal watching the Sunday movie marathons. Good times.