Attached much?

Taclking things on your own can be hard, especially if it's taking care of a little person who needs you, for everything...and doing it all by yourself 99.9% of the time. My son is eight months and I thought he was attached to me before now...ha! I love it, totally love it, but I do have to say it is tough.

I think that the hardest part is trying to put him to sleep at night, although when someone is going to hold him for a bit, cause this chunker gets heavy!, he turns towards me and wraps his arms around me, melts my heart! He really knows how to "con me". Screaming his lungs out, for the full ten minutes I wait, hoping he'll just surrender to sleep, then walk in the room pick him up and again, tell him it's time to go to sleep, and it's like I just hit his mute button. Then I usually end up feeling so awful that I can't put him down to cry again. He's always super cuddly after his screaming ordeal, which is usally one of the only times he'll ever be this cuddly. He ends up going to bed...eventually but it definitely takes away from the tiny amount of me time that I get to begin with. I have to say this method does work a lot better in Austin when visiting grandparents :P. Our new bedtime routine is brush our teeth, get into our trundle (or sleep-sack), read a few books, say goodnight, and then...the screaming begins.

 

I have been researching sleeping methods (which I should have done months ago) and am finding there are a lot of them. They are all a bit defferent, and I'm positive that we need to try them until we find one that works with us best. Wish us luck! :)