Welcome Spring!

As this new, beautiful season begins...we thought we'd start a new season of our own called 

"Sleep through the night in the crib".

I'm liking it a lot so far.  As much as I loved snuggling with Jimmie in my bed, he is a very, very active sleeper.  I've really just been too scared to let him sleep away from me.  I ordered this book because I'd heard a lot about it.  It's a sleep training book... but I don't follow it to a T.  I take the ideas and concepts and make them work for us.  But so far?  Jimmie's pretty textbook in his behaviors.  I'm grateful for this.  Thankfully, Jimmie hasn't really had to "cry it out".  The most he's really needed to cry was about 5 minutes.  If nothing else, this book has helped to ease my mind while I sit on the couch and hear him crying from the other room.  Now that we have established a really solid bedtime routine (that can be followed every night instead of waking up to pick up Dad at 11), he's got this sleeping thing down.  It actually only took 2 days.  And now he is at the point where I can put him in his crib WITHOUT rocking him to sleep and he will cry for 30 second and then go to sleep.  This normally happens about 6:45-7:15 pm.  And he's out for the night! On both Thursday and Friday morning, I had to actually wake Jimmie up by walking around the apartment, turning on lights, and making extra noise while fixing breakfast.  

I'm going to add "Happy Parents" at the end of this title.  It fits.

This active guy just sits up as soon as he wakes up.  But then he just sits there.  Doesn't make a peep.  Not gonna lie... it's a little creepy.  I  think he might be a sleep walker when he grows up, haha.  Sometimes he will crawl to the other end of his crib and just sit there.  This is one reason why sharing a bed did not work anymore.  

Of course...once he sits up, he then just slumps forward, totally asleep.  And he stays like this.  Initially I would move him to his boppy pillow or lay him flat, but he prefers this and sometimes that would wake him.  He's fully capable of getting up and moving if he's not comfortable.  Apparently, some babies are just funny sleepers!  He is most definitely a tummy sleeper.  

Sometimes though, I still get those snuggles ;)  He does normally go into his crib without rocking for naps now too.

Just going EVERYWHERE, all of the time.  

This actually means, "Mommy, read me my cow book!!"

Had to throw these ones in here.

One of his favorite things is to come and stand in front of me and just bounce to get me to come and play if I'm doing something else.

This sleep thing must be working... because he looks like a "Happy Baby" to me!

A happy bath time!  A great part of our routine.

A happy side-tongue face!

A happy breakfast eater after a great night's sleep!

A happy free Rita's water ice eater.  Mmm.. Mango!

A happy yogurt painting by Jimmie!

A happy shoulder riding baby!

(And a really happy Mommy, too :) )

A happy baby stealing Mom's ice cream!

This video made me laugh.  He loves ice cream way too much.  His Great Grandpa Foulk would be very proud of this ice cream loving boy!  

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In other news, we will be moving sometime before the end of June.  We don't know where, or when for sure yet, but we are getting our apartment listed to see what kind of interest we generate. (No, this isn't our listing ;) )  If people are interested and we can fill it, we can leave our apartment before our lease is up.  We have looked at a few apartments in Orem that are very close to both of our jobs.  Maybe we'll get them, maybe we wont!  We will just have to wait and see. 

I know this is pretty unconventional, but since this happened today, I thought that I'd include it.  We had to get our apartment totally clean so that our landlord could come take pictures to list it.  I don't remember the last time that EVERY room was totally clean all at the same time.  Not just straightened, but actually cleaned! I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty dang proud!  A special thanks to Aunt Megan for helping by playing with Jimmie for quite some time while Mommy cleaned.  This is one of those things that is more for our benefit and memory than for anything else :) 

We've been here for a while and have had some great memories here.  Since it's a rare, I thought I would take a time to share some pictures of our current apartment.  There are a lot of unknowns and options in our future.  I don't know what the future will bring, but I do know we'll miss it for sure!

(Don't mind the clutter.  I'm doing this "moving" thing in steps.  Packing a box or two a weekend.  And saving any extra boxes we find.)

And by the way... if you're still reading this, and you're going to be looking for a place to live between now and June, let me know!  It's a pretty rockin' place.  2.5 bedroom, 1 bathroom in Provo.  Send me a message if you're interested.