BarefootinBoston

My adorable, charming, intelligent, bottomless pit son knows how to push all my buttons. I suppose it’s not intentional. Something is up with him, and I have no idea what it is. He eats like a champ, sleeps ok at night. His napping during the day is so god awful. I swear I can set time by the way he naps. Rarely will he sleep more than 30 minutes, and it is generally around the 30 minute mark where he will wake up. Um…you’re 6 months old there E, don’t you need more than 2 hours of naps during the day. I suppose I can tell that he’s not getting sufficient sleep based on the fact that he is never able to be awake for more than 1 to 1.5 hours without getting fussy and needing another nap (falling asleep within 5 minutes of putting him in his crib). Maybe this is the way he is. His doctor wasn’t the least bit helpful. “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink” was her response when I asked about lengthening his naps. Great, thanks for your help there Doctor.

The thing I don’t understand is that if I leave him in his crib, let him cry for a little while, he’ll sometimes go back to sleep. Now, to anyone but me apparently, this seems ok. But I would think a routine would form, that he would be able to sleep more than 30 minutes without waking up crying before going back to bed. I do not want to create a sleep monster. I fear I have created a solids monster with the way E attacks his thrice daily feedings.

My main new years resolution was to accept E for E, not try to put him into this mold of what he should be, how he should be acting, how he should be developing. Easier said than done. I was talking with my friend MJ yesterday and explained to her that I am like a cup and right now, I am full. Between Jack’s death, hunting for a new apartment, dealing with a land lord who was trying to screw us, E’s cranky state is the icing on the cake. And since I am home with him all day, that is what the focus is on. Boy do I need some yoga!

We have a doctor’s appointment on Thursday…hopefully his crankiness will be solved by then. I think it’s the incessent fussing that I suppose I am really upset about, the naps are naps. When he’s cranky for more than half the time he is awake (and he’s full, changed, all the things that they say babies get cranky about have been checked) something is up. It’s just figuring out what it is that is the problem.

The amazing part is, no matter how frustrated I am with E, all it takes is a simple smile from him to change the whole thing. It’s incredible. He can play me better than anyone else. And to think this is just the start.

Like millions of people, I watched the Super Bowl last night. And of course, the results were not what I would have wished, nor what I would have expected. I guess I shall end there. I do not have the ability to reflect on games for a number of reasons and will move onto a different sport, and I challenge I am giving myself.

I consider myself a Boston sports fan-I do not generally enjoy watching sports. But if a Boston team is playing (with the exception of the Bruins), and the game is on at my house, I will watch it. Sometimes I will even go out of the way to watch games without the presence of A. But the Celtics are by far the team I watch the most, and know the most, about. Therefore, after a discussion on Saturday with JM about NBA teams, I will attempt to name as many teams as I can (I promise I have not cheated in any way). I am looking at a map of the US (and I can’t neglect Canada) and trying to figure it out from there-I believe there are 32 teams…I have no idea…

Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, New Jersey Nets, Miami Heat, Indiana Pacers, Detroit Pistons, Minnesota Timerberwolves, Houston Rockets, San Antiono Spurs, Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, LA Lakers, Sacramento Kings, Denver Nuggets, Portland Trailblazers, Toronto Raptors, Hornets (I have NO idea what city/state, last they were Charlotte I thought), Philadelphia 76ers, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Memphis Grizzlies (are they even basketball?), Washington Wizards, Utah Jazz, Orlando Magic

Ok, I’m sure I’m missing some pretty obvious ones but I do not feel like wasting too much time trying to figure out what teams I am missing (as you can see, I missed some obvious ones I had to add on to the end of my list). I may come back to add some more later on if they pop into my head, but I think I did pretty well!

After a very late night last night, and several nights before, I am truly appreciating going to bed early. Having a little one that wakes up to be fed in the middle of the night makes being a sports fan very difficult. That being said, what an amazing time to be a Boston sports fan. The Sox just won the World Series (SWEPT the crazy winning Rockies, SWEPT them!), Pats are undefeated (and might I add, pretty easily) and the Celts are going to be much improved for this season!

Unfortunately we don’t have cable so being a Celts fan is going to be tough. We have to beg borrow and plead with friends to invade their house with screaming infant in tow. At least he’s fun to watch.

Enough sports talk for a month.

I got home this morning from a mom’s group and walked right into a pile of poop from my dog. Let me give you a little background…I have an aging mini schnauzer my husband and I adopted two years ago. We knew he was old. We did not know he would chose to relieve himself in our house in lieu of going outside long before his time on this planet is up. What a great way to enter the house this morning-setting E down in his chair so I could eat and walking right threw a pile of poop! And I even had to throw away the slippers I was wearing it was so awful. As though taking care of a baby isn’t enough….