sleep and stuff

i'm exhausted and a bit frazzled tonight. whew...it feels good to sit down. the kids are both in bed and my hubby is making me an omelette. he recently busted out his omelette making skills, impressing me, as every time i try to make an omelette it turns into eggs scrambled with whatever i was trying to put in the omelette. ha. turns out he worked in the cafeteria when he was in college and spent saturday mornings making custom omelettes for students. he became a pro. how did i make it through over four years of marriage before learning this about my husband? i'm not sure, but i'm glad that now i know that fact and am able to take advantage of it almost weekly. and also glad to know that we are not finished learning about each other yet.

it is amazing that it is 7 pm and both kids are in bed. and neither one is crying. jobot recently got into a really, really bad sleep pattern. a few weeks ago he was usually going down for the night around 9. he would fall asleep while nursing and then i would carefully creep up the stairs and lay him in bed. sometimes he would keep sleeping and other times his eyes would pop open and we would have to go through the whole thing all over again. once sleeping, though, he would sleep until 4 or 5 when i would get up and grab him and then doze in my chair while he nursed. that was all liveable (though not ideal). enter about ten days ago when he got a cold. he wasn't feeling well and was waking up more during the night. he refuses to take a pacifier and doesn't suck his thumb, so the only way to soothe him is for me to nurse him. we started sleeping together in my chair because he wanted to nurse and i wanted to sleep. then there was last wednesday night when he cried all night. i took him to the walk-in clinic in the morning as soon as it opened. yup, it turned out he had his first ear infection.

antibiotics took care of the ear infection, but unfortunately, they did not take care of the new habit of sleeping all night in the chair with mommy, a routine that quickly became unlivable for me. oh, how i wanted to sleep in my bed without a baby attached to me! (can you tell that i'm not exactly into attachment parenting? my time without kids is necessary, and so is my sleep).

so...jobot has moved into his own room and has been crying it out a bit. i absolutely hate having him cry, but there doesn't seem to be another way at this point. the good news is that he went down tonight (at 6 pm) with no crying at all. so, it seems that he is learning to soothe himself and fall asleep without me. this is one of the aspects of parenting that i strongly dislike, but it must be done, i guess.

i have a lot more to say, and i want to share some photos of the great camping trip we had with my mom a couple of weeks ago, but now i am going to go spend some time with jeremy. goodnight for now.