Lots of Alexander!!!

Since our trip back home to Kentucky, Alexander's night sleeping has been nightmarish! He used to get up once in 12 hours, and since then he has been getting up about 3-4 times a night. It's been killing me. He wakes up crying and wants to eat each time he wakes. It's the only thing that seems to calm him down. Not to mention during the day, his eating has been pretty bad. He'll seem hungry and then he'll only nurse for about 5 minutes, before pulling away. It's very frustrating! I feel like he's not eating enough during the day so he wakes hungry during the night. I have got to get this figured out!! However, last night he did end up sleeping great! He started fussing at 11pm and then about 1am and each time I let him fuss for a couple of minutes (so hard to sit and listen to him do this, even though he wasn't screaming, he was just kind of whining) and then he put himself to sleep. Yay!! He woke at 3:30, I fed him and then he slept until about 7:45am!! It was wonderful and much needed for me. I don't know if he'll be able to do the same thing tonight, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

This weekend has been a weekend of firsts for Alexander. Last night we gave him his first bit of solid food, rice cereal. It was pretty hysterical to watch him. He didn't really know what to think of it. I think he may have swallowed two little bites (I mean tiny), but he pushed most of it right back out. And then he stopped opening his mouth. We're going to try again tomorrow night and see if he likes it any better. If not, we may try again a bit later.

At his last doctors appointment, the doctor cleared Alexander to ride along in the jogging stroller. So this morning we went for a family run. It was great! Alexander was warm and happy and Chris and I were happy to be able to run together. I'm looking forward to making this apart of our daily routine and not have to run around Chris' schedule.

Today is St. Nicholas Day. As kids, Bill and I always put our shoes by the door and they were magically filled with candy when we awoke. Well, Alexander may be too little for candy and not really have shoes yet, but that doesn't mean he can't participate in this holiday.