The other great thing about this week is that Caleb's schedule has pretty much officially changed and it is working out really well. There is still a day every once in awhile when Caleb wakes up early and then I will put him back to bed, but for the most part, he is sleeping 10 1/2 - 11 hours at night and then I am not putting him back to bed. Then he is taking a morning nap that is lasting 1 - 1 1/2 hours (Tuesday was 1 hour and 40 minutes) and an afternoon nap that is lasting 30-90 minutes (very random). And it is working out so well and I am so happy about it. We are getting out of the vicious cycle where he is so tired at night when I feed him that he sleeps through most of his feeding and then doesn't sleep as long at night because he already slept while eating. Now that he is taking a late afternoon nap he is not as tired when he eats and he usually just falls asleep at the end of feeding him, which is perfect. So, I hope that this schedule continues. However, it did not go well today with Grammy. He slept from 7:30 last night until I had to wake him up at 6:00 to feed him before work. So, we took him to Grammy's instead of Grammy coming here and she was going to try the new schedule. Well, he ended up taking a 30 minute morning nap and then would not take an afternoon nap at all, so he was so tired by the time we picked him up (but still very happy and not fussy at all). So, we will have to work on Grammy's schedule because that is not a good situation. Now for the rest of the week's summary. Last Thursday I had to go to the dentist, so Caleb went to the office for an hour or so. Here are some pictures of Caleb "helping" Grammy work.
We didn't do anything special for supper on Friday night, so we had a quiet evening at home. I should also mention that as of Friday, Caleb is now officially 11 months old. I cannot believe that he is so close to being a year old!! Time has gone by so quickly.
On Sabbath we made it to Sabbath School again because Caleb was still on his "old" schedule. If he sticks with the "new" schedule, he will be napping right during Sabbath School, so that is too bad. We'll see how it goes. There was only one other kid in Sabbath School this week, which is too bad. This is part of the problem with our Sabbath School, but oh well.
Caleb was very tired, but would not fall asleep during church while I was nursing him. So, we took him home to my parents' house right after church to give him a nap. It took him a little while to go to sleep, but he did eventually, however, he only slept about 40 minutes. Sabbath was my dad's birthday, so we had lunch at my parents' house with the Latimers and Noseks, which was very nice. Dania made enchiladas, which we all love, and Holly made some phenomenal maple cookies for dessert, which were sooo good. We had a nice lunch and visit in the afternoon and then we went home for a little while before our church social because I wanted Caleb to sleep a little more since we would be keeping him up a little later because of the social.
Our church social was fall themed, of course, and we had a nice soup supper and then played a couple of games before we ended up leaving to get Caleb home to bed. I had a nice break during the social and Steve took Caleb and sat with all the younger girls who loved passing him around.
Sunday was a busy day for me. I worked in the morning and then I went to a kids consignment sale that I had been looking forward to for several months. The sale is at a church in our town (actually where Steve and I had our wedding reception) and it is absolutely huge. It is on Saturday and Sunday, but on Sunday it is 50% off, so I was so excited to go to it. They do it twice a year and I had gone back in March, but I took Caleb with me and it was not a good situation, so this time I told Steve I definitely wanted to go by myself. So, I was there over 2 hours (the last hour was spent in line, however) and got a lot of good deals. I knew Rad was waiting for me to get home to watch the Patriots game and I had a meeting at the church at 5:30, so it was a tight schedule, but we managed to finish the game in time and luckily the second half of the game was better than the first and they pulled out a win!
Cheering on the Patriots with Grammy
Sunday night Caleb slept from 7:45 to 7:05, which was awesome! I was super happy about that. He also took 2 good naps, so it was a great day! We did some shopping on Monday. I had some Super Cash to spend at Old Navy, so we went and got a jumpstart on some Christmas shopping. We also went to A.C. Moore for a couple of things. I also had quite a bit of laundry to do between the normal laundry and the items I got at the sale on Sunday, so that was a big part of the day.
Trying on a hat in Old Navy
The mountain climber in action
I know I have mentioned before that I often buy things from moms on Facebook. Well, this week I bought a huge lot of clothes from one mom and it ended up being 3 huge trash bags full of 12-18 / 18-24 month clothes and I only paid $90. I know that sounds like a lot of money, but for 3 trash bags of clothes, it was an amazing deal. There were probably over 200 items of clothing and I only had to get rid of a couple of things that had stains on them. I loved going through everything on Monday night. It was like Christmas! It made for another huge laundry day on Tuesday, however. I did 5 loads of laundry just from all the new clothes I got! Caleb slept really well again on Monday night and then he took an awesome nap on Tuesday morning. I almost though I was going to have to wake him up so we could go to our play group, but he woke up just in time, so it was perfect. We had a nice time at our play group. I am really happy that we joined the group and that we are making friends. I look forward to it every week! For some reason, all of the babies in the group were very vocal this week and it was a much noisier group than usual. Tuesday was a pretty cool day, so I dressed Caleb in a nice sweater and he actually wore shoes and all the other moms thought he looked like such a little man and loved his outfit.
This is at home - the shoes had already come off!
We stopped at my parents' house on the way home from play group and my mom gave me a hat she had bought for Caleb. We tried it on to make sure it fit and it did.
There are the shoes!
The rest of Tuesday was spent doing laundry! After Steve got home, we did take a walk, however, and Caleb wore a winter hat for the first time this year. He tried to pull it off but luckily it had a strap under the chin, so it stayed on.
This morning I had to wake Caleb up at 6:00, as I already mentioned, so I took a couple of pictures of him while he was sleeping before I woke him up.
I already mentioned how poorly Caleb slept for Grammy today, but here are several cute pictures Grammy took today and texted to me. They did have a good day even though Caleb was awake almost the entire time!
Shopping at the mall
Sticking his tongue out like Grampy
Checking out his shoes
Sitting in a big boy chair at office lunch
One thing my mom did today was she texted me to ask me if it was ok to give Caleb some prunes (he hasn't ever had them before). I texted her back and said ok and about 10 seconds later, she texted me again and said he liked them. So, I knew she had actually given them to him before asking me if it was ok, but luckily it wasn't a big deal. Ironically, he did not poop today at all, so the prunes didn't have the usual effect. At least not yet!
Since Caleb slept so poorly today, I fed him early and he was in bed at 7:00. We will see what that means for waking up tomorrow morning, but he was so tired he needed to go to bed early. We'll just take it one day at a time and go with the flow. Anyway, here are a few last pictures from the week.
Trying on a hat in Christmas Tree Shop with Grammy
He loves the bath!!
Can't wait to join you for that kid's consignment in March!!
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