Learning Curve

Momma and Dad were startled awake to the sound of a door closing.  The immediate panic was eased 1/2 a second later as we realized the alarm was not going off and the dog was not barking.  A 1/2 second after that we both realized the possible culprit:  Bubeaner!  He had gotten up and was opening and closing the playroom door.  Why?  Not sure.  Why not go in and play?  Still not sure.  But it did reaffirm that the baby gate was a good idea.  Who knows what he would get into if he could roam the house unattended. 

The only other thing we are having an issue with his new bed place is his sleeping.  Well, not the sleeping so much as the moving he does while sleeping.  Bubeaner would move so that his head and, most of the time, even his body, touched the edges of the crib.  The problem he still looks for that even though he has moved to the big bed.  We have been using pillows to create "barricades" so that he does not fall of the bed or get a crink in his neck.  Surely, at one point, he is going to stop moving so much.

And, in a change, Bubeaner was the one that woke Bubita up this morning.  She had slept 12 hours!!! Woohoo!  Bubita was in her stroller all night.  Not sure if it was coincidence and she was working her way back up to sleeping that long or if sleeping there eased her reflux.  Either way, we were thrilled.  We are trying it again tonight.  We are hopeful she'll have a good night especially since she refused to take any naps today. Although she did fall asleep during part of the pumpkin patch visit and during our evening walk.

Pretty soon we are going to have to move our evening walk up an hour or two.  Today was a little chilly already even though the sun was still out.  Bubeaner even wore a little pull up.  And Bubita had a hat on and was tucked in a blanket in the baby carrier.  As the weather gets colder the little ones may get too cold if it's late.  And of course, our hope is that they also start going to bed earlier as the days get shorter.  We have noticed that Bubita may be working her way towards that earlier bed time.  She gets really sleepy around 5-6p every day.  So it could be a possibility.

The pumpkin patch was fun.  It was not as crowded as last weekend.  Bubeaner actually got in some of the bounce houses.  He is not jumping yet, but he bounces up and down now.  And he really surprised us when he went on the TALL slide bounce house.  It took him forever and a day to climb up.  And once he was at the top we thought we would have to go and get him.  Bubeaner was not sliding down.  But some older kids started jumping at the top and slowly he bounced, bounced, bounced his way to the slide and all the way down.  He just got up and went again.  After that, Bubeaner would actually go down by himself.  But he was no fool, he slid face down, legs first.  Bubeaner even tried the hay ride too.  He was not too thrilled with it, but loved the horses along the route.  It's nice to find activities around our area we can enjoy.