Sleep

Austin has been sleeping through the night or only waking up once for a while now. The only problem was he would go down at midnight and sleep until noon or later. I called him my frat boy!! I was hoping that this would just work itself out, but it didn't. Thursday of last week I started waking Austin up at 10 am, then Friday at 9:45 am, ... by Sunday Austin had revolted and didn't go to bed until 1:15 am. I was about to give up, but thought I would stick it out. Sunday morning I woke him up at 8 am. I HATE waking him up, I don't want to deprive him of sleep, but we had to do something. This had been going on for at least 2 months. John was exhausted from staying up until midnight and waking up at 5 every day. So Sunday night he went to sleep at 8:55!!! I could not believe it. Monday he went down at 7:50 pm and Tuesday he went down at 7. He's been waking up around 10pm to eat and then goes back down until morning. I'm so glad we finally got this worked out. Its still a work in progress, but I've stopped waking him up and have let him sleep when hes tired and wake up when hes done. Austin is a good sleeper and he sleeps a lot still.
On another note, he STILL hasn't rolled over. We try to work on it, but the minute I put him on his stomach when hes awake he screams his head off. I keep thinking if he gets mad enough he will try to roll over, but that hasn't been the case. Yesterday we signed up for a weekly play group at Little Gym. My friend Ashley and I are going together with our babies. Her daughter is 6 weeks older than Austin. I'm really glad we did this. It means we will at least leave the house once a week. Its been so cold and we've had some snow so we haven't been able to leave much. The general rule I've heard from my friends is that Austin shouldn't go out if its below 20. Well sometimes a week can go by and we don't get above 20. That hasn't happened yet this year, but its been kind of mild.
My mom, Dodie, is coming on Monday for a week! We are so excited. I have a list of things I want to do while shes here. I've already done some things that I've been putting off. Like putting pictures in Albums. I'm only pumping 3 times a day now, so when Austin is sleeping I can now do something besides pump or eat.
On Sunday Austin is going to be a part of the baby dedication ceremony at our church. There were 5 babies born last year! I know that doesn't sound like anything special, but our church doesn't have more than 35 people in it. So 5 new babies is a lot!