A Good First Week

Most of us had a good start to the year.  I think Ethan had the best but I'll let you be the judge.

Cameron
Cam is getting better at sleeping by himself in the crib or pack and play.  He now spends at least half the night sleeping by himself.  He also has changed night eating habits (finally).  Up until this week, he'd have a bottle at 8, then about 11:30 or 12:00 and then 3:30-4:00 and then again at 6:30 or 7:00.  This week he finally decided to let me sleep longer.  He'll take a bottle about 10:30 or 11:00 and then sleep till 5:30.  Yep - 5:30...4 nights in a row (& yes, I know by putting that in writing, I've just ruined it and he'll wake up at 3 again).  That's about 6 full hours of sleep he's giving me.  The only downside is that when he finally wakes at 5:30, he's starving and while it takes only a few minutes to fix a bottle, that's way too long for him.  Thankfully, his brother's are sound sleepers so he hasn't awakened them yet.

Alexander
Alex had a so-so week.  He was in trouble every day but he also had moments each day where he was so cute, I just couldn't stand it.  Tonight, for example, when I picked them up from Steve, Alex looked like he had just awakened.  I was trying to unbuckle him to get him in my car and he started crying.  I asked him what he wanted and he said, "I dust want you, Mama."  He was really, really tired and he just wanted me - he just wanted to snuggle with me.  Made my heart melt.  Then he fell asleep in my car and did the same thing when we got home only here at home, he cried until I could sit down and snuggle with him for a few minutes till he fully awoke - then he was fine and rotten again.  It's those sweet moments when he just wants Mama or when he smiles with those dimples that make this a good week for him despite his bad behavior.

Ethan
As you've already read, Ethan lost his first tooth this week.  Then wonder of wonders, the Tooth Fairy brought him TWO whole dollars & took his tooth away.  He came running to show me this morning.  He had put his tooth in a baggie under his pillow last night and this morning, the tooth was gone and there were 2 dollars in there instead.  That wasn't all that happened with Ethan this week though.  Today he was evaluated again at school on his progress and he got all of his letters, letter sounds & sight words - he got them ALL!!!  He had been having problems with a few of them but today he nailed it!  His teacher was excited about it, too, and sent me an email at work to let me know.

Tara
I went back to work after 12 days off on Tuesday.  I have been pretty much on-time to work when not going there from the chiropractor's office and yet even when going to the chiropractor first, am still getting to work fairly quickly and getting caught up & able to leave work on time.  I'm always late - for everything (Ethan was early to school every day this week - not just on time but early) so for me to be punctual is progress.  Leaving work on time is a bonus as that means Steve can be on time to work since he can't go in till I pick up the boys from him.  I even beat him to work twice this week.  I've also started making progress at the chiropractor's office and am finally getting a little relief in my back.  It'll be a while before I'm "good" but at least I can tell a difference.

Steve
Steve made chili for dinner one night this week that was so good Ethan asked for seconds.  He made bean soup today - though it's not quite done yet.  It's only not done because he had to run a bunch of errands today so he had it on low all day.  It'll be yummy to eat all weekend though.  He's been on time to work all week (because I was able to leave work on time) and got to sleep in most days as Cameron goes back to sleep after that 5:30 bottle and sleeps till about 10:00.  He's gotten to take naps each day as well (except probably today as  I doubt he had time with the errands he was doing).  Special bonus for him - he got to laugh at me and my little freak out over trying to pull Ethan's tooth - he found that especially funny.

So all in all - the Waters clan here had a pretty good week.  I definitely think Ethan's was the best but as I said, I'll let you decide for yourself.