1st week of school

school is in session
well school has officially been in session for 1 week now. last monday was our final teach prep day. ross stayed home with miles in the morning and then i came home and picked miles up and took him to work with me. it was so fun! he just hung out in his sling while i took care of a few things...it made me want to take him every day! tuesday morning was the first day of school. ross stayed home with miles until i got home around 11.30am. that night was miles' first time to stay with someone who was not a member of our family! i had an athletic parents meeting so our friends dave and julie came over and did us a huge favor by hanging out with miles until ross could make it home from work.

miles' schedule
on wednesday morning, miles had his first day with his babysitter! so far everything is going pretty well. here's how things have been working so far:

miles gets a bath (unless he falls asleep too early) and goes to bed sometime between 6-9pm.

between 10.30-11pm i wake miles up and feed him and give him his medicine right before i go to bed. he sometimes stays up for 30min or so before going back to sleep and other times he just pretty much stays asleep. then i put him in his bed...in his very own crib in his very own room! i turn on his lamp or night light and he falls asleep.

he wakes up sometime between 4-5am. if he's not awake by 5am i go ahead and wake him up so i can feed him before i go in to work. after i feed him, he and i play and hang out together. this is one of my favorite times of the day even though i am so sleepy! he is super happy in the mornings though and i love getting to see his smiles. at 6am i put him in his crib and he goes back to sleep.

i leave for work at 6.30am and ross takes over. so far miles has been great and is sleeping at least until 8am when our babysitter arrives...i was hoping things would work out this way! so far, so good. ross heads to work when the babysitter arrives at 8am.

side note: i never knew so many things could happen before 8am. just saying.

miles is still settling into a schedule with his babysitter. he wakes up anytime from 8 to 10. he eats one bottle while i'm gone and usually takes 1-2 naps. he is always ready to wake up and eat when i get home around 11.30-11.45am!

after he eats lunch, he usually wants to take a 1-2 hr nap in the afternoon. then he will wake up and play for awhile before taking another nap. then he's awake for a bit, then we start it all over again!

how things are going
its really hard for me to leave in the mornings, but i could not be happier with our babysitter setup. miles gets one on one attention at our house and i only am gone for about 5 hrs, and it will be even less once volleyball and basketball seasons are over in february. i am still adjusting to getting up early and figuring out how to manage my time in the afternoons and evenings, but i know i will settle in soon enough. miles seems to be handling everything ok, though a few days he has been slightly cranky and he is always quite happy to see me when i return.

rough weekend
on friday miles didn't seem to be feeling well at all. he'd been spitting up even more than usual and he was just not quite right. i will spare you all the symptoms/details. we tried to get him in to our doctor who moved his private practice to a clinic, but we're told he was booked for 2wks and that since miles had been sleeping so much (he was sleeping insane amounts!) we should just take him to the ER at dell childrens hospital. so miles and i spent friday from 2pm-8pm and then were told to go back for a re-check on sunday and were there from 8am-2pm. basically they did a lot of testing and decided he might have had a cold and stomach bug or he might have just been suffering from more severe reflux. they ruled out a LOT of things that miles did NOT have, which was all good news, but certainly this made for a very long weekend. after a super cranky day yesterday, he seems to be back to more of his normal self.


sleep!
i couldn't be as happy as i wanted to about it since i was concerned he wasn't feeling good, BUT miles is starting to sleep in his crib and for longer periods of time. i'm about ready to take down the pack n play that is set up in our room because he is sleeping so well. on thursday night he slept from 8pm-5am without waking up at all. his new record was set on saturday night when he slept from 9.30pm-7.11am in his crib. i nearly had a heart attack when i woke up and realized what time it was! i went (read: Ran!) into his room and he was just hanging out in there sucking on his fist. in fact a lot of the times when he wakes up from naps instead of crying he just lays in there and plays. when he gets bored he starts yelling out to me until i go get him. as long as i don't delay too long, he doesn't even start crying! i love sleep! and i love this kid! can't get over him :)

btw, he weighed 14lbs at the hospital this weekend!