Griffin has continued to love the babysitter, which makes leaving him everyday a little easier. My biggest frustration comes when I start to think about how little time I get to spend with him now. 3-4 hours a day is all I get with him. That's such a drastic difference, and it really gets me down if I think about it too much. I need to do a better job of finding ways to curb my stress, because it's started to affect him. I get home frustrated and agitated, and he starts to get fussy and out of sorts and it just makes for a very unfun evening. On top of all of this he's decided to stop sleeping all night. He hasn't slept all night long since I went back to work. I hope it's a temporary thing, because it's getting exhausting fast. Nights like last night are particularly exhausting. He woke up at 1:30 and was awake until 3. Not exactly enjoyable for Mom and Dad when they have to work all day.
We had a change in the new routine this week as well. Our babysitter's grandmother passed away, so they had to make a trip to Kentucky for the services. Griffin got to spend Wed and Thurs with Grandma K and Friday with a friend of ours and her two month old. He got to be the big kid around for a change! Thankfully he adjusted pretty well, now if he'd just go back to sleeping all night...
He's constantly amazing me with all he does and notices now. He's surprised me this week by acting like he was wanting to try and crawl. He's been scooting backwards and really raising up doing bigger push ups than he ever has, so that's a good sign I guess! He's most definitely more comfortable standing and trying to walk. He will walk with assistance and LOVES it, although I'm not exactly sure why I'm encouraging it at this point... Earlier this week I had him sitting in front of the refrigerator playing with one of his magnetic toys. He took the main part off the fridge and for the first time really noticed his reflection in the door panel. He was mezmorized by it to say the least :o) He kept hi-5ing "the baby", bobbing up and down, squealing and playing with the other baby in front of him. It was pretty stinkin cute!
Hopefully we'll have some really good stories and pics from this weekend. We're going to Chicago to visit Aunt Cindy and she's going to babysit Saturday evening while Matthew and I go to a Sox game for a friend's birthday. It's pretty much a guarantee that lots of pics will be taken if Aunt Cindy is around!
Well...here's a new treat, instead of pictures this time around, here's the video of hiids reflection in the fridge. It's pretty fun! Please ignore my commentary in the background. If I could edit it out I would. ha!
He could be teething that may be why he's fussy and not sleeping through the night?
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