Little Loving #2

Well, I was going to wait for my first ultrasound to post this blog, but so many of you already know so...  For those of you who haven't heard already, I am pregnant with Little Loving #2.  I haven't had any Dr. appointments yet or anything, but right now my estimated due date is May 20th.  My first appointment is October 8th.  We have been trying for a second child since April, and month after month when nothing happened, I always felt a little disappointed.  I am very thankful that it only took five months, especially when I know there are plenty of people who it takes years for them to have children.  But, I think it's natural still to feel a little disappointment every month..  (I am stealing the following idea from Kelly, lol)

I would like to point out that I HATE any pregnancy test that isn't digital.  I've never taken a regular one  that I have been able to clearly read the results of.  The line is never clear enough to me.  It's never dark enough, or solid enough, sometimes only the ends of the lines look like they are there, or maybe that's just a mark of where the line would be if it was there...  It's so confusing to me, lol.  The same day I took this digital one I took a regular one and I couldn't tell without a shadow of a doubt what the result was.  Obviously I wasn't going to run and tell Greg I think I might be pregnant, but I'm not for sure, but maybe...  Because then his hopes would get all up and what if I wasn't?  So I ran out and grabbed a digital one.  I hadn't bought it to begin with because they are more expensive than the regular ones.  So to anyone who has questions about pregnant tests, I totally recommend digital ones.  The results are clear as day and there will be no doubt what it says, lol. 

In other news, one month and one day until my current little man turns two!  His birthday party is going to be a Spongebob theme since that is his favorite cartoon.  He is also going to be Spongebob for Halloween.  I already got his costume and it is so cute!  My  mom is coming in for his birthday and Halloween again.  Hopefully it is not as cold as last year, but I am thinking with the amount of snow we have on the mountains already, we will have snow on the ground within the next two weeks.  It is our last winter here so I am sure it will feel extra long and extra cold...  It's already dropped down to the 40's during the day and the 30's at night.

I am going to sign off with a few pictures of Liam at the park last weekend, and then I am off the the gym.

BedTime=Bad Time...

So, is my child the only one who screams like they are dying when you put him to bed?  Liam used to be so good when he went to bed, then a few months after he turned one, he started screaming.  Like not just crying and whining, SCREAMING, literally like someone is trying to kill him.  The only time he does it is bedtime at night.  He very rarely does it when it's nap time.  I have tried quite a few different things to get him to just lay down and go to sleep quietly, but nothing works.  All I have been able to do in order to not lose my mind is ignore him.  But, sometimes he screams an hour (on average it's 30 min), so it is harder to ignore him then.  Here are some of the things I have tried:

- Night light
- Leaving his door open
- Letting him pick some toys to sleep with
- Rocking him and reading to him for a little bit
- Letting him stay up 30-60 minutes later

I've tried other things too, I just don't remember them all.  He gets his sippy cup, his two favorite blankets, and his favorite stuffed animal everynight when he goes to sleep.  He also gets a snack and a half hour wind down time of cartoon watching before bed.  His bedtime used to be 8:00, but then I tried 8:30 thinking maybe he wasn't tired enough, then I even tried 9:00.  All a later bed time accomplished was him screaming until a later hour.  It didn't make him scream for a shorter amount of time, he just ends up staying up later.  So now he just goes to sleep at 8:30.  I try not to go in there becuase I don't want him to think just because he screams I'll come in and see what's wrong.

Another thing is, once he finally goes to sleep, he wakes up about an hour later and screams again.  I don't go in there when he does this either, because when I used to, I've noticed that he just gets more worked up when I leave, and it lasts longer.  On average, these screams only last about 10-15 minutes.  He gets up during the week at 5:30 A.M., which gives him about eight hours of sleep.  He takes an hour to two hour nap during the day, but doesn't sleep later than 3:30 at his nap time.  He usually stays up a little later on the weekends (so we can all sleep in, lol), and sleeps about 10 hours then, with pretty much the same nap schedule.  I don't know if I am doing somehting wrong, or if there is even anything I can do at all.  PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!

How do you know when time out isn't effective?

When your child puts himself in time out instead of just doing what he's told...