Five more minutes, Mom!

Our son is not a morning person. He is my kid in many ways, but in particular his penchant for sleeping late. I'm trying to get up earlier and get to the office, but no matter what time I set the alarm for, Ian wants to nurse from that moment until well after 7am. I woke up at 6:30 today but so did Ian and he nursed off and on until 7:15 when I demanded we get up. So yeah, I still didn't get to work early.

I just can't bring myself to get out of bed at 6am and if I have to choose between getting to work early and spending a little more quality time with my boy, he's going to win every time.

But maybe we can wok on slightly less snuggles and more getting up and dressed.

Dis and Dat

I just did an entire load of nothing but baby blankets. In particular, they are the Aden and Anais cotton muslin baby blankets. We have a TON of these blankets.

It started out as an innocent four pack. I thought they would be nice and soft and I liked that they were thin muslin. Then while browsing on Amazon I saw another set in different colors. And another. And ooh, these would be cute.

Ironically, the last set I bought, all giant stars the size of your palm on each of them I was most hesitant about because the large sections of dyed fabric made them stiff, but they are Ian's absolute favorite. He asks for star blanket by name.

When he was in the toddler room he started calling things "dis". Everything was "dis" and nothing was "dat". Over a few months everything eventually got its own word, but his blankets remained "dis". As we get in the minivan and he asks for Mama nilk, he immediately asks for "dis" as well. "No, dat dis!" he says, pointing vehemently at one of the three blankets I have squirreled away in the seat.

I'm grateful that if he has a favorite "lovey" it's something we have a crate load of on hand. And while many other things we'll be passing on to friends or giving to the thrift stores, this giant pile of muslin will be around forever.

Growth spurt

I think someone is having a growth spurt. Ian has eaten twice what he usually does today and is actively asking for food (usually he has to be starving to request food versus just being busy). The other half of that is that we both napped from 12:30 to almost 4pm today! I was just going to lie down with him for a bit and then get up to do things but that didn't happen. Perhaps I'm having a growth spurt too. Ian's new favorite food is apples. I bought a 12 pack of the fuji apples from Costco and he's eaten almost half an apple each day. Perhaps it will keep the doctor away. He's coughing again, but his nose is running too so I'm chalking it up to a basic cold and we'll not take him to to doc unless his cough gets much worse.

The ladies at day care mention things like that a lot (runny nose, coughing) and I think they expect us to take him to the doctor, but I can't imagine it would really help. Then again, he had pneumonia a few weeks ago. So if his cough stays around much longer we'll see what we'll do but I'd like nature to take its course if we can. But at least I've logged when his coughing started so we don't have to wonder if he's had this cough since August and we just didn't remember.