I'm bored

Myles woke up today at 4:15ish again today. This time, I didn't go in his room at all. I instead slept in the hallway next to his room, between our rooms so that I could hear if he were attempting to climb out of the crib and stop him. I never heard the crib creak, so I just let him cry. We started the CIO thing last week for the middle of the night wake up that sometimes occurs. It backfired on Thursday when he apparently climbed out of the crib and was just walking around free as a bird in his room. He cried at 6:30 and when Mark went to get him, he was greeted by an awake and free child.

So the next couple of nights we've been doing the sleep on the floor next to the crib thing. We've taken sofa cushions to create a crash pad under the bed, and when he awakes at some ridiculous time, we just go in there touch him through the crib and sleep on the floor on the cushions. That way he's comforted, but he doesn't get to come into our room and has to stay in the crib. New baby's coming, so we've got to lay down the law. Our queen sized bed won't fit two babies and Myles is a wild sleeper. Plus it's time.

He's over working on his morning poop as we speak. We're slowly ambling towards potty training as well. But we're asking a lot of him at one time. Weaning, potty training, eating dairy. He's gotten good at recognizing certain letters of the alphabet. He knows A, B, C, D, E, O, M and Z. Sometimes Y. He knows the number 2. I don't know how he picked, but he started with 2 and B. We're just working around his natural interests.

He ate cooked carrots the other day for the first time and kept requesting that I shovel more in his mouth, calling them "ree." Okay, more ree for you. He also ate a bowl of peas. I have to saute frozen peas - he won't eat mushy ones from a can. So specific, this boy. Wonder where he got that?

He eats a lot more different food now, but is still pretty biased against trying certain things. Can't get mandarin oranges near his mouth, nor yogurt (which doc wants to try). Basically anything on a spoon versus a finger. Had to hand feed him a carrot before he liked them enough to let a spoon near him.

That's all for now. Gotta get him all napped up so that we can make our 3:30 playdate.