Oliver, my darling not-so-little baby! You slept 10 straight hours last night! I can hardly believe it! Although I have to say that I didn’t get to sleep straight through, as my girls needed some pumping action, but still… we’re pretty happy about you sleeping so long. I think we are pretty close to you sleeping through the night. Actually, you pretty much just did. Hopefully, you will keep sleeping through the night. We’ll see!
One other nice thing is that you seem to be crying less and less when we put you down. I think you actually really like sleeping in your crib! Tonight, when I put you down, you were relaxed but awake. You wiggled around a little, but found your little comfy spot, settled right in, and closed your eyes. No crying! Yay for you, Oliver! Sleep rocks! I’m glad you like it!
It was finally nice enough this weekend for you to go out. You and your Dad went for a long walk on Saturday. All over the place. And then Dad took you to Starbucks for coffee. Well, he had coffee. You had…nothing. Soon, though, we will get you kiddie drinks. I mean, seriously, we are raising a total little yuppie kid. Right? When you came home, you looked absolutely thrilled to pieces! Dad said you absolutely loved the walk, which makes us both look forward to Spring even more than normal Chicagoans already do. I think that watching you enjoy this Spring will be really, really fun! Kind of like seeing it through a new pair of eyes!
Just in time for Spring, Oliver, you have started producing real tears! This morning while you Dad was holding you, there was a brief meltdown period, during which you had a few little tears coming out of your eyes. It is kind of crazy to think that all these months you haven’t cried a single tear. I think if you do start crying tears every time you cry, we won’t know quite how to control all of your fluids, because you have also started to really, really drool a lot! I don’t think that you are teething quite yet. At least I really hope you aren’t teething yet! But man, do you like gnawing your little gums on anything lately. And when I say anything, I mean mostly my finger is your favorite thing to chew on. But in a pinch, your fingers will do the trick. And that is our first picture of you today, Oliver. You, lying on your changing pad, chewing on both of your thumbs. It was pretty cute, and a little of a change from you just simply trying to jam both hands fully into your mouth. You are such a boy, my little boy!
The other photo we took tonight too. We took you to see your Grandma Annie today, and when she held you, I couldn’t believe how big you looked compared to the last time she held you. So when I put you in your jammies tonight, I thought we’d take another photo of you in your bassinet. You are looking pretty cute, and I like these little nightgowns on you more now that you are older and you don’t squirm so much. They stay down around your feet a little better. Anyway… we may be getting close to the end of the “Oliver in his Bassinet” series of photos. We’re almost out of space my little guy!
Well, you are in bed, and I think that we are off to bed as well, Oliver. See you…in the morning?
love,
Mom
I can see a little of your Dad in this picture[ -He is so cute!!! I have a couple great-grandsons that he could have a good time with!