WingNut is 2 months old today. It has brought on new things both good and bad. The good things make me happy and proud and the bad stress me out.

We will start with the bad. Grumpiness. It seems if wingNut is not always entertained he freaks out. He will voice his opinion and complain by wining resulting in driving me nuts. I don’t get much done during the day because I am constantly moving him to new positions so he will be happy. I don’t necessarily have to hold him non stop, just change his viewpoint or activity.

Another bad thing is naps. Or I should say what naps? He hates taking them. I can get him to take maybe 30 to 45 min naps and then he is up and ready to go again. He does not sleep solid during the day and wakes up easy which means I can’t get anything done while he is down. I have a small house so noise carries easily.

This does lead in to a good thing, his night sleeping. I think because his day sleep is lacking he makes up for it in his nighttime sleeping. The last few days we have put him down at his bedtime which is 9:00pm. He will not wake back up to 6:00am when we feed him and change his diaper. He will then go back to sleep and wake up around 9:00am. He likes his nighttime sleep apparently. I on the other hand do not get as much sleep, because it takes me forever to fall asleep. I try to go to be around 10:00pm but don’t fall asleep to 12:00am. So there is six hours. But then at the 6:00am feeding I wake up and don’t fall back to sleep, so I just lay there trying to relax and hoping I will drowse off. Sometimes that does happen on the rare occasion. I feel sleep deprived because I am the kind of person that does not feel good unless I get 10 hours of sleep. I know that will never happen again with a kid. I am trying to get used to it but that might not ever happen.

Two days ago he tried to laugh. It was the cutest thing. He opened his mouth wide and made a half laugh sound. It completely made my day. I can’t wait until I hear a real one. Another milestone is he found his thumb but since his hand movement is lacking a bit he only gets it in the side of his mouth. But soon I think he will be able to suck on it and then I can say goodbye to the pacifier. Another thing he loves is when we let him stand on his feet. All we do is hold his waist so he won’t fall over and he keeps himself standing up. He has amazing neck control and leg control. If only I could get him to like being on his belly he just might start crawling.