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And now for something completely different, Ways in Which My Kid Is Not Awesome:
--He doesn't nap.*
--He absolutely can not go to sleep at night without a swaddle, a boob, and a bounce on the yoga ball.
--He's not very good at feeding himself with a spoon and yet he insists on doing so anyway.
--He sometimes thinks my nipples are finger food.
--He's not self-cleaning.
--He bites. (This morning he lunged at me for what I thought was one of his signature open-mouthed kisses, but then he bit me on the cheek!)
--He can't balance a checkbook, do taxes, or install a wireless network.
--He's older than he's ever been, and now he's even older. And now he's even older. And now he's even older***...
--He doesn't poop gold coins.
--He doesn't get LOLcats.
*I try not to complain about this because if I have to choose between a baby who naps and a baby who sleeps through the night (and apparently I do**), I'll take the night-sleeper hands down, no take-backs.
**Yesterday he took a fifty-minute nap in the middle of the day and then was up and hollering for most of the night. That sucked.
***The part I mean starts at 2:38, but the whole thing is cute if you're into this kind of stuff.
My kid DOES nap, but does not sleep through the night. HOWEVER, I am surprised by how little I care about this, because again, thank Jesus for co-sleeping. And she won't go down without the boob and some rocking.
And I'm supposed to care about these things, due to bad habits, but honestly, whatthehellever. She's cute. She sleeps with me pretty well, and I feel rested in the morning. So again, I say WHATEVER.
PS, my Peke Moe won't be here for another week. I'll let you know. BUT, I meant to ask you: does he roll over in his sleep in it?
Same here. We're probably instilling all kinds of bad habits that we'll later curse, but for now we remain in "whatever works right this second" mode because we're too lazy?/relaxed? to go all commando on a six-month-old. He's just a BABY, for crying out loud. (Plus, when he cries at night, 90 percent of the time he's still asleep when he's screaming, so it's not like we can "teach" him very much when he's unconscious.)
And yes, he totally rolls over in his swaddle blanket. He's been a side-sleeper from day one, but for about the past month or so he's started sleeping on his face, which, GAH. When we told the doc that we wanted to teach him to sleep without the swaddle, she actually recommended putting him down on his stomach "because he's old enough, now." (Apparently they won't suffocate once they have the ability to turn over easily?) The problem is that he's terrifyingly mobile even while swaddled, and he usually fish-flops around enough that he gets wedged facedown in the corner of the crib, which makes him MAAAAD. The wee hours of this morning found us discussing the merits of duct tape.
Should I be all "I can't wait" or terrified? I am not sure. Is this worse than our current situation (too mad to want the boob) or better? I am not sure. Guess I will find out around Christmas time... (Sleeping through the night sounds pretty good though)
Yours isn't self-cleaning either? I guess I shouldn't send mine back with a strongly worded note.
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i know someone who SO doesn't get LOLcats and it cracks me up more than the actual icons