Owen has been sleeping solidly through the night for a few weeks now, on and off. It actually happened a bit by accident. Owen had woken up one night, and in my sleepy stupor, I thought it was a few hours earlier than he normally woke up. So rather than nurse him, I held him for a bit and tried to soothe him back to sleep, which he was really unhappy with. The next morning, Adam pointed out that in fact, Owen had woken up at his normal middle-of-the-night hour, so no wonder he was so upset about things going differently than he expected. It worked out well though, as that started him sleeping till 6-630 most nights.
Adam and I have really been catching up on some much needed sleep. It's so wonderful not having to wake up between 2 and 4 every morning! Just sleep till the alarm goes off, or Owen wakes up, whichever comes first.
If only that were the case.
Now, instead of waking up in the middle of the night to a crying baby, we are waking up in the middle of the night to a crying cat. The first few nights, we thought maybe Paul was concerned about Owen being so quiet. Now, sometimes it's because one of the food bowls is empty (of course, the other is full. But that one is like, stale or something). Sometimes it's because one of the cats dropped a piece of food in their water. Sometimes it's because Paul wants to be chased. Sometimes, seriously, I think it's because he wants to see if being woken up in the middle of the night by a cat still pisses us off (it does).
So, we're trying to make sure we keep Paul awake during the evening. We found out yesterday that one of Owen's favorite activities - flailing his arms around - is especially awesome if you give him the length of yarn Paul stole from my mom. He wiggles the yarn around, Paul chases the yarn, both my boys are happy. Owen really seemed to enjoy playing with Paul, and Paul appreciated an activity with Owen that didn't involve losing fur.
In other news, we had a make-up Easter egg hunt yesterday. I expected Owen to really enjoy it, since he's usually pretty entertained by getting help walking and by picking things up.
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| I don't know what we're about to do, but I think it's going to be fun! |
He was happy to combine these two activities - but he wanted nothing to do with the eggs. It was almost like he was purposefully ignoring the eggs.
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| Ooh, a snowman! |
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| Ooh, a fireplace! |
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| Ooh, a volume knob! |
Eventually we were able to get him to focus on the eggs.
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| Ooh, an...egg. Thanks guys, this game is great. |
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| Wait, these roll?!? |
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| AND they go in your mouth. Ok, this game is pretty cool after all. |
It may not have turned out how I hoped or expected, but overall it was still pretty entertaining for all.
