A funny conversation with Max

Yesterday I suspected Max had a dirty diaper...our conversation went like this:

Me: Max, do you have a dirty diaper?

Max: No, just toots.

Me: But I see poop in your diaper.

Max: Doggie poop.

Me: How did it get there?

Max: A dump truck.

Me: How did a dump truck put doggie poop in your diaper?

Max: I don't know what happened.

Mom and Max Weekend

Shawn left this afternoon on the train for Portland and will return late Monday night. Max and I sure miss him, but we hope he is having lots of fun relaxing and hanging out with friends. We've had a good day. Before Shawn left today he took Max to the zoo this morning, the merry-go-round at the zoo on the weekend has become a special treat for Max. I got some nice quiet time and gave the apartment a good cleaning. Max and I had a quiet afternoon hanging out and our neighbor Sara stopped by for a bit. This evening Auntie Katherine joined us for pizza (free artichoke hearts on Valentine's Day. Yum) and watching Flight of the Conchords. Max loved the "movie" and enjoyed gnawing on some pizza crusts. He really liked being tickled by Katherine and playing trucks with her. She tired him out well and he went to sleep easily for me. I was relieved as I had been worried about bedtime. Eight days ago Shawn started putting him to bed, and I was afraid with me in there he'd want to nurse and cry a lot. But he didn't cry once, and only asked to nurse a few times. We snuggled and read books together, it's really neat reading with him now as he is getting into saying phrases, tonight he said "Walking mouse" from the book "If you give a mouse a cookie...."

We are looking forward to hanging out with friends tomorrow and I'm off to sleep now as the little tyke has been waking up early these days, telling us he's hungry and then eating a 2 egg breakfast!

Sleep Challenges Continue

This is the fifth night of Shawn putting Max to sleep. The first one was ok, nights 2 and 3 were great, and the last two have been, well, pretty bad. He's been in there with him for over an hour tonight and it sounds like he's just fighting sleep. We even gave him a little ibuprofen for his teething pain. It's such a huge transition for him to not nurse to sleep anymore. I hope it gets easier as I'll be on my own this weekend, and Shawn is rapidly tiring of spending 2+ hours of his evening sitting in the dark with Max. We've got a friend who will be arriving in the next hour to spend the night with here while he's in town on a quick business trip. I hope Max goes to sleep soon so Shawn can have some time to hang out with our friend. Other than the big sleep issues, the nursing less is going well. Here's to hoping little Max is feeling my sleepy vibes right now and will go off to the land of sleep soon.

Daily Life

I haven't posted in awhile. I've been wrapped up in daily life. I caught Max's flu and was down for several days. It was a really, really bad stomach flu. It really set Max back too, his stomach wasn't back to normal for a week and he really regressed and is wanting to nurse all the time. I've decided I've had enough of sitting, holding him, letting him nurse for an hour or more at bedtime, and then again around 3AM. No more nursing at bedtime or during the night. Period. So, Shawn put him to sleep for the first time last night. Max cried and carried on for an hour and a half. I was expecting worse, and I was so relieved, and proud of him and Shawn when he went to sleep and stayed asleep for a whole 8 hours. Go, Shawn! Today, Max has wanted to nurse a lot, when he's been tired or hungry. A long outing at the zoo with him being too excited to eat his snacks resulted in a meltdown when he got home and I caved and nursed him, he was so hungry he was refusing all other food. Sometimes, it's the only way to get him to eat some real food, letting him have his Mamma comfort first. Really though, I know I'm getting close to wanting to wean him all together. I know some people think I've already nursed him too long as he's closing in on the 2 year mark. It's so different for every child. For now we're starting with this new night time routine. Shawn's in with him now, reading him books, and I'm hoping the crying doesn't go on for as long tonight (I'm sure my poor neighbors are hoping the same). Shawn's mom and sister are visiting us this weekend and Rose was saying that weaning won't be effective until I make up my mind that we're weaning. So, I've really made up my mind about this night time stuff. We're on the wagon and not falling off. Shawn's going to Portland next weekend so I'm hoping it gets easier this week so when I'm trying to enforce it on my own while he's gone I won't go too nuts.

Today was fun. We had a good morning outing to Lighthouse for coffee and Max's now favorite mango juice, and Rose and Chandra arrived. We hung out and played with Max, he napped for an hour and we enjoyed a nice lunch together and then Rose and Shawn took Max to the zoo for some toucans and merry go round fun while Chandra and I shopped. I picked up a lovely casual dress and some goodies at the Mediterranean food store. Mmmmm olives...