WHAT a day!

ok, so things are getting really interesting now! Gabe has pretty consistently been up at 4 to eat once during the night and then goes back down... BUT, I have fed him less often during the day, and I think that's why... I don't mind getting up that one time, since I've spread out the feedings and that makes for an easier day. Anyhow, I was up with Gabe at 4 last night to feed him and he went back down at 4:30, but I stayed wide awake until about 6:15, then was GREETED by Jayce and his stuffed gamecock IN MY ROOM at 6:30... What???? He sleeps in a crib and stays there in his room until i get him somewhere between 9-10 whenever he wakes up, or so he DID... It's the craziest thing b/c my friend Molly B called yesterday talking about her little boy getting out of his crib and coming into their den and I said, oh no, I could not handle that right now... well, I guess God is showing me differently! He had done this from his crib once before, but said it hurt his head so bad that he would not do it again... He did it from the pack n play as I posted earlier in Columbia, but has since slept in his crib a whole week... ANYHOW, the saga continues...
So Jayce goes to mother's morning out and I go to have a photo session for Gabe just he and I... There was this one shot I had seen and loved and wanted to get... the "towel tower"... we got it at the end of the session as Gabe had drifted off to sleep from lots of hard work... Well, I asked if I could get one shot with my camera... big mistake, as we took this, the photographer was keeping an eye on Gabe and went to check the lighting on my shot afterwards and within one second, Gabe and the towel tower has toppled over... I was so shaken up, as he is so little to fall several feet onto a hardwood floor... But, his eyes were ok, head was not swollen or bruised and he's acted normal all day, so I think he is fine, but it really scared me...We called the dr. and he said to just keep an eye on him and bring him in if anything was abnormal... so far, so good, I still wish he could tell me though, Mommy, I feel fine... oh well... I think he's ok.

THEN, as if this was not enough... I go down to put Jayce down for his nap this afternoon, feeling certain that he'll sleep in his crib this time, b/c I NEED a break! As soon as I got to the door, I cracked it and peeked in and he bent over the rail head first and did a flip out of the crib to land flat on his back, barely missed landing straight on top of his head... It was so dangerous... So, after settling down, I laid down with him in my bed for 15 minutes, then Gabe woke up... but Jayce did sleep an hour... NOT his normal 3... BOY, if i don't have my morning time, and no nap time, and we can't go back to the gym for another week... yeikes! Say a prayer that we'll be back on track here soon...
Jay is putting him down now in his "big boy bed"... still his crib that we've converted to a toddler bed by removing one of the rails... I'll post later on how the night goes...

Oh one last thing, once Jayce woke up from his nap, he was limping and crying uncontrollably by the time Jay got home, we thought something was really wrong from his fall, and that he was kind of having a delayed reaction, we called the dr. again, about ANOTHER fall... different child... I'm sure he thinks we are just the greatest parents in the world... he thought we should go get x rays at the ER, but after a while, Jayce settled down and the limp improved... I think he was just sore, and needed to stretch it out... sore and TIRED... me too!

Anyhow, pics... there is one of Jayce and Gabe first thing in the morning... Jayce had laid out all his toys around Gabe for him to "play with them"... it was so sweet, I had to get that...

Then, there's one of Jayce playing with his good buddy Wallace last night, after our good friends Jay and Tara were over... by the way, Jayce said that was why he came downstairs last night, was to see Wallace...pretty cute, but I wish he'd waited until 9 to see him :)...

Then of course, the towel tower... don't know that it was worth all the hardship! But, she's going to blow it up really tall and it will look like LOTS of towels stacked really high underneath him...

Oh, an one picture of Gabe zonked out after our first day to church... we went Sunday and he did great! I was able to feed him between church and Sunday school in our nursing room, and it was perfect timing! We even got to enjoy lunch at Red Bone afterwards! He is in his cute hat, but has on a onesie b/c had a little accident in the nursery and they had to change him... I was so upset I hadn't gotten one of him all dressed up... oh well, maybe next time!

Sorry to ramble, but this is my therapy for the day!