Sleep, Sleep, Sleep

I wonder how many posts over the past 3 years I've written about sleep, or the lack there of?!?  After Reid went through that crazy two weeks of waking at at 2:00, 3:00 or 4:00am and staying awake, he's back to himself.  Sleeps 11-12 hours a night and about 2-3 hours during the day.  Ahhh!! He likes sleep just like his mamma!  Even when he does wake up, he can stay in there for another hour just lying there or reading books. 

Connor, well, he's just like his daddy!  Josh woke up at 2:30am for work on Thursday morning and did not go back to sleep until after 1:00am on Friday.  He slept for about 4-5 hours then got up once again for work.  I don't know he does it, but evidently Connor is a chip off the old block. 

Lately he has not been going to sleep until 9-10:00pm, waking up during the night and still getting up around 5:00-6:00am.  At night, we do the same ritual we have always done--turn on sound machine, read books and lie with him for a few minutes.  That used to work.  Lately, as soon as we leave his room, he gets up, turns on the light and sits and reads.   We used to go in and turn off the light but it was a fight each time.  Now we just let him read until he falls asleep.  This lack of sleep is affecting everything, especially his behavior.  He's also started waking up during the night and having potty accidents.  These are things that we conquered a couple of months ago, or so we thought. 

I decided to start taking away his nap, but as  you can see, he really needs his naps:

I find him asleep everyday!  I only let him sleep for an hour, but that's not helping with bedtime either.  Hopefully this is yet another stage and once Mother's Day Out starts things will get better.

Here are more recent pics:

Gearing up for football season!!

Always into everything!!

 It is monkey see, monkey do all.the.time!!!

 It's so fun watching and laughing with them!

 Daddy teaching Connor to eat a fruit roll up with no hands!

 Last weekend we went to Bellville to visit my best friend, LeAnn and her kids.  Here is the foursome:

Splish, Splash

This summer has been miserably hot and dry but it has not slowed us down.  We love going to all the nearby pools, sprinkler parks and splash pads and the boys have come to love the water.  At the beginning of summer Connor was scared to even get his face wet.  Now (thanks in part to Daddy and Jorge, his swim teacher) all he wants to do is swim and jump in, and refuses to wear floaties.  So here are all kinds of swim-related pictures followed by a couple of videos.

 Oops we forgot our swimsuit...

 While the other girls are paying attention at swim lessons, my son is busy trying to climb up the rail!

 Showing off his certificate that he passed swim lessons!

And now for some videos:

FYI--that is Mimi in the background, not me!!

I cut this video short because it was a little long.  You can hear Reid in the background doing his animal noises about a second too late.

Weekend Festival

A few weekends ago the boys and I went to a nearby festival where they had all kinds of fun, free activities.  They rode a train, bounced in a bounce house, slide down a water slide, enjoyed watermelon, played on the playground and even waded around in suds (or as we used to call them "foam parties".)  Oh and did I mention Addy happened to be there?!?

Later that afternoon we went to a friends house where there was more outside fun!

The kids were drinking from the slip and slide!

Reid loves to get wet!

 

 Ava and her Momma, or as Connor calls her, "Addy Mom"

 Ava was pushing Reid around and thought it was so much fun!!

 Aren't they too cute?!?

What My Boys are Up To

I have stopped and started a couple of different posts this week but was never able to finish one.  So this will highlight what's up with each child this week.

Reid has had hand, foot, mouth disease this week.  Evidently there is an outbreak in Austin.  Poor little guy is covered--all over the feet, hands, one side of the face, around the mouth and in the mouth and a little bit in the diaper area.  Mimi came into town this week and we had plans to take her to a different place everyday but we've had to keep him inside :(  Connor had 24 hours of fever and was begging to go to bed one night at 6:00 and one night at 7:00.  Very unusual!  Knock on wood, he hasn't gotten anything yet...

Speaking of Connor aka Mr. Independent... He's always been an early riser, usually between 5-6:00am.  Once we moved him into his own bed, he'd get up, come in my room to snuggle and watch tv in my bed.  All that changed about a month ago.  Now when he wakes up, I sometimes don't even know it.  He gets out of bed, changes his clothes (loves wearing his mesh shorts and wears them every single day unless they are in the dirty clothes) gets out his breakfast and turns on the tv.  The only thing he sometimes needs help with is turning on the Disney channel. 

Connor reading to Reid in his mismatched mesh outfit!

He looks so long to me right here!

 We "rock out" quite a bit around here

Hoping for a better "well week" next week!