Zachary cut his first tooth!

On Thanksgiving day...Mr. Z cut his first pearly white:-) Now, a few weeks later, he seems to be working on his 2nd tooth...we'll see.

Last Saturday night, Zachary visited with Santa and told Santa that he wants a Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Musical Table. However, last I checked...the main Santa didn't think it was "necessary" for him to have. Oh well...at least he'll have a few small things to open on xmas morning.

Zachary has been doing really well sleeping in his crib at night and for his naps. Hopefully this trend will continue on into childhood.

One other update, Zachary has now increased his food intake. He appears to still be hungry after being fed and fusses when I take the bowl away. So instead of giving him a cube of vegie and a cube of fruit...yesterday I offered him 2 cubes of vegie/1 cube of fruit for lunch and 2 cubes of vegie/2 cubes of fruit for dinner. I'm running out of food for him...I need to go out and buy more to make! Luckily, the Farmer's Market is this coming Sunday. Zachary has also been wanting to eat the food on our plates. This has been happening for 3 days now. Must be because I gave him some of my mashed potatoes. He is also still nursing twice a day:-)

We're taking our precious one to SeaWorld on Saturday. Grandma won 2 SW tix and gave them to us...the older kids don't mind because they go to SW all the time and don't care to go right now...cool!

Zachary's schedule at 6mos

This is his schedule:

8am awake...nurse on both sides
9am cereal
9:30 nurses
10am morning nap (sleeps for 1/2hrs)
12:30...5oz formula
12:45 nap (sleeps until 3)
3:30...nurses
5pm...fruit and vegetable
6:00 nap (for 1/2 hr)
6:30...5oz formula
9:15 nurses
9:30 bed

Found my basket of toys!

Z's 3rd night of CIO

Zachary's 3rd night of CIO.

Gave him his bath but I switched to nursing him his last feeding of the night to see if that would help with my engorgement. It did, so that is what I will do from now on. I swapped the 6:30pm nursing/9:30pm bottle...to 6:30 bottle/9:30pm nursing.

I nursed but kept him awake. Brought him upstairs, laid him down, covered him with his blanket, put his NUK in, kissed and rubbed his head once...then said, "ni-night".

No crying.

He woke up at 8am. The end. hehe. :-) We'll see about tonight.

I'm no longer a ZOMBIE!!!!!!

Zachary's 2nd night of CIO

Zachary's 2nd night of CIO.

Same ritual...bath/bottle and then in his crib at 9:30pm. I laid him down, kissed, rubbed his head/back, covered him and said, "g'night".

Last night we were to wait 10mins before going in to "check on him". I left him...set the timer when he started fussing and he fussed for 1 min before going to sleep :-)

He woke up at 4am...and cried for 4-5 mins. Justin went to check him (I have the boobs/milk and didn't want to "tease" him with a possibility of food. He woke up again at 6am and fussed and then back to sleep.

I woke up at 8am...boobs were rock hard engorged again. I waited and Z started to fuss at 8:15am. Justin went upstairs to get him/change his diaper. He announced that Z had pooped during the night (which explains why he cried at 4am). Justin said that he smelled something in his room at 4am...but never investigated. ugggg. I explained to him that he needs to check his dipe for poo and if it is soiled, to change it...no matter what time.

Nap time.. (10:00am). Tired boy...nursed him/changed him...laid him down in his crib...no crying...just "uh uh uh", then asleep.

So far, so good! The only problem is my breasts being so engorged...they hurt so bad.

Zachary's first night of CIO

Zachary's first night of CIO. (crying it out)

We did the usual bedtime routine...bath/bottle and then I laid him down at 9:30pm. I covered him perfectly...rubbed his head, kissed him and said, "g'night"...then walked out.

He didn't fuss right away...took a min. or two. When he started to cry...I started the timer for 5mins. When the buzzer went off, I went upstairs to his room...repeated what I did when I laid him down initially. I rubbed his head (once)...skipped the kissing...then said "g'night" and walked out.

This time I was suppose to wait 10mins...so I set the timer for 10mins. He was asleep in 2mins (there was 8mins left on the timer).

He woke up at 2am, but barely fussed...only 20-30seconds.

Again, he woke up at 6am...but didn't really fuss...so he went back to sleep. There was no crying at night...just a little bit of a fuss at 2 and at 6.

At 7am, he started to fuss again...so I asked Justin to go get him as my boobs were rock-hard engorged.

Let me just say...Z did fine...I didn't. haha. Justin laughed that I need to CIO, haha. I stirred most of the night...worrying about him upstairs in his crib. Even though I didn't sleep well...I feel better than usual.