Happy Halloween!

Cameron had an absolute blast this year. He was so excited for his costume and to finally go trick or treating. I wish Steve and I shared an ounce of his excitement. Halloween is my least favorite of the holidays. Christmas on the other hand, I love!!








"Let's go to this house next!"


Regardless of how Steve and I feel about Halloween I'm glad the kids had a blast!

7 Months

It has been 7 months since Cameron stopped sleeping through the night. 7 very long months. We saw Dr. Ferber two times and it did help at first. He went a few nights without waking up but it was just a few random nights here and there. We've tried not letting him nap, we've tried limiting his naps, we've tried waking him in the morning and nothing seems to work. Dr. Ferber was very firm in his belief of putting up a gate but he just climbs over it. We tried stacking two gates on top of each other and he just screams and screams which causes Arianna to wake up so then we're really screwed.

At first it was monsters, then it was just "cover me up" now it's "cover me up" AND "there's ghosts and a blue tarantula under my bed (thanks Max and Ruby). It has gotten to the point where we just go in and cover him up. What else can we do? We've tried battling with him and it just makes it worse.

We bought him this clock which has an "OK To Wake!" option on it. The round part of the clock turns yellow at 8pm and Cam knows that when the light is yellow he cannot get out of his bed (well he's not supposed to) at 6:15am the light turns green which lets him know it's ok to get up. He was so excited the first night we thought we'd be all set. Nope. He still got up a few times.

Or last attempt is this wearable blanket unfortunately we haven't gotten it in the mail yet. We're hoping it will solve the "cover me ups" in the middle of the night but I'm not betting anything.

His not sleeping combined with pregnancy insomnia = one VERY cranky Mommy. If anyone has any other tips I'd love to hear them. At this point we'll try anything!

Potty Training Success!

Cam is finally potty trained! I have to say, the past week hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. I started telling him a few weeks ago that "If you're still in diapers when Santa comes he'll bring you baby toys since baby's wear diapers. But if you wear big boy pants and go on the potty Santa will know to bring you big boy toys." It seemed to work, he would tell it back to us and tell us he was a big boy. We'd remind him that he was still in diapers though! Finally last Monday he told me he had to go on the potty and he did! Once he went that first time it was smooth sailing. He has had NO accidents in underwear. We still put a pull up on at night and for naps mostly for convenience but he has been waking up dry. He hasn't mastered pooping but he'll get there!

We have had to force him on the potty because he'll just tell us he doesn't have to go. He tells me he doesn't go on the potty at school but he comes home dry so he must be holding it. He seems to hold it a lot actually. He can go for HOURS if not most of the day without peeing. I know it's not good so we do force him at times to just sit.

This is a huge relief for me. I truly felt like he was the last 3 1/2yr old not potty trained. With his personality I thought it would be a long battle too but we've been pleasantly surprised!

My next goal is to get Arianna off the bottle!

Being Silly

This girl is nuts! She makes us laugh non-stop!

Pumpkin Picking

Today we took the kids to Bog Hollow so they could pick out a pumpkin. Cam loves it there. They have an old fire engine you can climb on, hay rides and a huge pumpkin patch. Cam was having a blast but Arianna was kind of out of it! She loved the hay ride but she wasn't very impressed by the pumpkins. Oh well, maybe next year!







They had a "hay tunnel" that intrigued Cam. It took him a few minutes of watching but then he went right in. We were afraid he'd get stuck in the middle of it but he did great! He must have went through it 20 times!

Baby's First Picture!

Today's appointment went great! I'm measuring 3 days ahead, I've gained 2lbs and I feel great! Well, besides not sleeping at night! I had my ultrasound first and the tech was very chatty, which is a good thing! She said everything looked perfect! The doctor came in to review the scans and the first thing he asked was if we wanted to find out the sex. I said no reluctantly. He had me thinking though, when we had this ultrasound with Cam the doctor (maybe the same one??) said the same thing so now I'm really thinking boy. But he did ask before he looked at the scans so who knows! Of course I cannot find the u/s pictures of Cam at this gestational age.

Baby's heart rate was 157bpm (Arianna's was always in the 150's...). I'll go back in a month for a regular check up then in 2 months we'll have our big ultrasound where we will NOT be finding out the sex!

I'm betting boy though. I just have a feeling.

Wordless Wednesday

After a morning at school, Cam missed his "baby girl."