Three

Holden is growing up. I look at his long legs, and his sweet face and see almost no traces of babyhood. While I watch him "carving turns" on his scooter or getting himself dressed, I realize my baby is a big boy now.


He asserts his independence and says the darndest (and embarrassing) things. Today we were walking through the Babies R Us parking lot, he yelled out, "HEY, CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME?!!? DO YOU HAVE POOP IN YOUR PANTS??!!??!!" I was completely caught off guard and started cracking up. Probably not the right thing to do because he became totally tickled with himself and yelled it again. Then when we got home I went out to the garage to see what he was doing. I wanted to sneak up and take his picture while he was playing. I found him holding the trash can. I asked him what he was doing. He replied, "I'm carrying junk!"


Holden is starting to potty train himself at night. He'll get up in the middle of the night and go into the bathroom all by himself and then get back in bed. I had to tell him not to flush because he woke up Cash the first couple of nights. Now if that's not a sign that he's growing up, I don't know what is!

Five and a Half Months

Cash Jones is five and a half months old! He's leaving the helpless baby stage and is starting to become an interactive member of our family. He loves to be in the mix - giggling, cooing, and blowing rasberries all the while. Holden has started playing with Cash since he's become more alert and nothing melts my heart faster than seeing those two having fun together.


He has just finished attending his first month of daycare. It's been an emotional rocky road for me. I wasn't happy with some of the things happening in his room, and let things bottle up. We looked into getting a nanny and that did not work out. I realized a lot about myself in the process. I went in and spoke to the director of childcare about the issues we were having, and things have improved dramatically since. He's starting to sleep better and is happy when I pick him up.

Cash sleeps pretty well at night. He goes to bed between 6:00 and 6:30 and wakes up around 6:00 am. He's been waking up once a night between 2:00 and 3:00 to eat. On Thursday, May 14th Trey and I woke up and asked if the other got up with Cash. Neither of us had, he slept through the night. On Friday, he woke up again in the middle of the night. I decided yesterday (Saturday, 5/16) that it was time for cry it out. From what I've read five months is about the perfect age - they're old enough to not need to eat and haven't really learned the habit of waking up for attention yet. I think this was around the time we did it with Holden and it was pretty fast; it only took a couple of nights. So I "filled his tank" yesterday. I think I was able to squeeze an extra bottle into his day. He slept through the night from 6:45 pm to 6:15 am - no crying needed! I hope we can continue this trend - I really can't stand hearing my baby cry in the night.

Cash had to go to the doctor twice in the past month. He developed bronchitis. The second time Trey took him for a check right after he finished his antibiotics. His lungs were clear, but still had a residual cough. The shocking part of the visits were that Cash weighed 19 lbs. 3 ounces at the first visit and 19 lbs. 13 oz. at the visit 10 days later. We've got one chunky monkey!


Cash has found his feet this week. He loves laying on the floor and reaching for his toes. It's really too cute for words. He can roll on his side, but he hasn't made it over quite yet.