terrible cell phone picture, but you get the idea
Turns out the kid in the pink car was mine, and the parent pushing the pink car was Joe. Carter was sitting in the car grinning from ear to ear. I laughed so hard and for so long that I started to draw attention from the people shopping for car seats in the area across the isle from us. Carter was loving it and I could not stop laughing!
I have a bunch of pictures to upload but I'm too pooped to do anything with them right now. (I apologize in advance if this post doesn't make any sense. My head is fuzzy) In regards to being totally pooped...Carter has started rolling in his crib which equals an exhausted Carter and exhausted Mama. He rolls from back to belly, gets stuck, and freaks out. So for the past week + we've been dealing with this during naps but it has started to affect nights too.
I've never let Carter "cry it out"... his cries go straight to my core and I can't not go get him, so when he starts to cry (not fuss, but actually cry) I would go up and flip him over, calm him down, and lay him back down, and repeat, repeat, repeat, etc. It was exhausting. It usually lead to skipping the afternoon nap, a short meltdown and then a super slap happy kid. And I mean SLAP HAPPY! Kid would laugh at everything! Kody sneezing behind him, Tucker walking by, jumping, etc. So while he wasn't napping at least he thought it was hilarious. Meanwhile I was exhausted. I wasn't aware that trying to calm a baby down for hours on end and dealing with little melt downs day after day was so exhausting.
Friday morning (I use the term morning loosely... 4:30am isn't really "morning" for most people) rolled around and I had a splitting headache. Like made me puke it was so terrible. Maybe a migraine, but if so it wasn't like any migraine I've ever had before. Joe, being the good husband and dad that he is, came home, put me to bed and took care of Carter while I passed out for a solid 3 hours and slept off 90% of my headache. Later that afternoon nap time rolled around. (haa I just realized my unintended pun. rolled. around. haa) So yeah, nap time rolled around, and so did Carter. By the time I walked out of Carter's room and down the stairs, he had rolled over. I looked at Joe and said "what now?" He says "lets give him 10 minutes and see what happens" So I took a seat on the bottom stair, grabbed Cartey TV (the video monitor) and braced myself. He fussed for a couple minutes, hard core cried for a couple minutes, I cried for a couple minutes, he fussed a bit, laid his head down and was asleep before the 10 minutes were up. It was so cute, I took a picture of him sleeping on his tummy. He didn't sleep long, but he took a nap on his tummy! Miracles never cease.
Fast forward to Friday night. I hear Carter fussing, turn on Cartey TV and see that he has rolled over. I'm about to get out of bed when I see him lay his head down and go right back to sleep! I woke Joe up, told him what had happened and laid there and grinned at my little munchkin that just rolled over and put himself back to sleep on his tummy! I had a big idiot grin on my face. I was so proud of him!
Now, if we could only get him to figure out how to roll from belly to back. Then he could sleep however he wants.
One quick picture
driving to go get the mail.. taking his job very seriously. nice 10 o'clock hand placement
bringing the mail home
I have a bunch of pictures to upload but I'm too pooped to do anything with them right now. (I apologize in advance if this post doesn't make any sense. My head is fuzzy) In regards to being totally pooped...Carter has started rolling in his crib which equals an exhausted Carter and exhausted Mama. He rolls from back to belly, gets stuck, and freaks out. So for the past week + we've been dealing with this during naps but it has started to affect nights too.
I've never let Carter "cry it out"... his cries go straight to my core and I can't not go get him, so when he starts to cry (not fuss, but actually cry) I would go up and flip him over, calm him down, and lay him back down, and repeat, repeat, repeat, etc. It was exhausting. It usually lead to skipping the afternoon nap, a short meltdown and then a super slap happy kid. And I mean SLAP HAPPY! Kid would laugh at everything! Kody sneezing behind him, Tucker walking by, jumping, etc. So while he wasn't napping at least he thought it was hilarious. Meanwhile I was exhausted. I wasn't aware that trying to calm a baby down for hours on end and dealing with little melt downs day after day was so exhausting.
Friday morning (I use the term morning loosely... 4:30am isn't really "morning" for most people) rolled around and I had a splitting headache. Like made me puke it was so terrible. Maybe a migraine, but if so it wasn't like any migraine I've ever had before. Joe, being the good husband and dad that he is, came home, put me to bed and took care of Carter while I passed out for a solid 3 hours and slept off 90% of my headache. Later that afternoon nap time rolled around. (haa I just realized my unintended pun. rolled. around. haa) So yeah, nap time rolled around, and so did Carter. By the time I walked out of Carter's room and down the stairs, he had rolled over. I looked at Joe and said "what now?" He says "lets give him 10 minutes and see what happens" So I took a seat on the bottom stair, grabbed Cartey TV (the video monitor) and braced myself. He fussed for a couple minutes, hard core cried for a couple minutes, I cried for a couple minutes, he fussed a bit, laid his head down and was asleep before the 10 minutes were up. It was so cute, I took a picture of him sleeping on his tummy. He didn't sleep long, but he took a nap on his tummy! Miracles never cease.
Fast forward to Friday night. I hear Carter fussing, turn on Cartey TV and see that he has rolled over. I'm about to get out of bed when I see him lay his head down and go right back to sleep! I woke Joe up, told him what had happened and laid there and grinned at my little munchkin that just rolled over and put himself back to sleep on his tummy! I had a big idiot grin on my face. I was so proud of him!
Now, if we could only get him to figure out how to roll from belly to back. Then he could sleep however he wants.
One quick picture
driving to go get the mail.. taking his job very seriously. nice 10 o'clock hand placement
bringing the mail home
I lied. 2 pictures. I couldn't show you going to get the mail without bringing the mail home in his cars trunk!
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