It’s Wednesday

Hey!  This week’s truckin’ right along, thank goodness!  Our high school boy’s basketball team made it to the state playoffs, and because we have such a small school and so many students, teachers and families would go to the game in Des Moines they cancelled school for Monday, their first game. They won and play again tomorrow during the day, so school is cancelled again.  We aren’t going (and didn’t go Monday, I think we were the only people left in town) which means I have the older boys here with me all day.  This doesn’t seem like a big deal except that Aiden and I have been butting heads lately.  It makes being together for an entire day without Dad being here to jump in and take some of the pressure off very difficult on me.  So, that is why I’m happy this week is zipping on by, I can get through these no-school days quicker.

Today it is just me and Tate here.  Well, me, Tate, my mom, my aunt and 3 of my friends.  I am having visitors today!  This morning my mom and aunt came over to just hang out.  My dad went with a friend this morning to the sale barn so my mom was free and alone for the first time since January 4th when Dad had his accident. So she came over to hang out with me and Tate.  I called up  my aunt and invited her over to hang out, too. That was fun!  And my 3 friends from our old town are bringing down lunch and hanging out with me and Tate this afternoon.  I’m so super excited to see them!  I love these 3, they are so much fun and so good to me.  Plus I need some gossip-time! 

Tate is going backwards in his length of sleep.  The first week we were home he went 5 hour stretches at night. That slid back to 4 hour stretches, still pretty good.  And now, last night, it was every 3 hours, or just under 3 hours, between feedings.  That about killed me.  It’s so frustrating!  I just want to sleep through the night!  It’s been 4 months at least since I’ve had a full night of sleep.  I just don’t get why Tate’s going backwards, instead of lengthening the amount of time he sleeps at night.  I am so tempted to start giving him a bottle of formula before bed at night.  My  head tells me that would help him sleep longer at night but my heart says don’t do it, it’ll mess everything up.  What do you think? Any advice?  I know not to compare formula fed babies sleep patterns with a breastfed baby’s sleep pattern.  Could it be a growth spurt?  Is that why he’s eating more frequently?  Should I call his pediatrician for advice?  I know, this is my 3rd baby, I should know but I just don’t.  I will look back on this later and figure it out but for now, when I’m in the thick of it I’m just too frustrated and tired to know what the problem is. 

Erin