Warm Fuzzies

  Today God has really been answering my prayers! I'm so glad because I have been praying up the ying-yang. To fill ya in a little bit, the past few days have been rough. Brayden has been teething top teeth STILL and has not been quite himself. He has started to go back into the habit of wanting to fall asleep nursing, and by accident he did and now he's having a rough time going down for naps. (You know what that's about if you read the sleep training posts) It has been making me so emotional because I'm alone and Jon has been working SO much. The crazy part is is that he goes down for bed perfectly and sleeps all night! Last night he slept for 10 hours and 40 minutes! Anyways, to make a long story short God has really been helping me figure out things to do with him to keep him happy and to help him go down for naps easier. Today has improved and he actually ended up going to sleep in his crib again without help. Took 20 minutes but his crying was a lot less. :) I guess I just needed time, time to really try everything and I feel so good that I have came to some conclusions. I have been waiting for a few phone calls to be returned and felt helpless the last 2 days, but now I see it's a good thing they haven't called me back. So Amen, and Amen again!

   Well I have figured out which teeth Brayden has been getting! The top two left. Yes, that's the one in the middle and then the one to the left of that tooth! The one to the left has broken it's way out, but the one in the middle is still working it's way. It's getting super close too! And it's a big one so that explains his pain! Poor little guy. Yesterday when he was all upset I just held him in my lap and turned on one of his videos and gave him his frozen wash cloth to chew on. It was precious. He actually was calm the whole time and I just felt all kinds of warm fuzzies cuddling up with him. There's nothing like the feeling of making your baby calm down like that just from your love. Ahh melts my heart! He's VERY good at doing that. ;) Also he's starting to show interest in learning to crawl! It's so very soon but he will push up onto his hands and lift his mid section up by pushing his feet. (This is really hard to describe fyi) And when he gets up onto his hands and knees by my help he sits there and starts to rock. It's SO cute!! Any day now it seems he will just take off.

  Ok it's time for me to get back to making Brayden's baby food! He's not running out just yet, but getting low on the food in the freezer. I can't believe how long that stuff lasts after cooking it! I still have food in there I made a little over a month ago. And when I prepare and serve it to him it still smells so fresh! I feel so confident in my Mothering skills because he eats all fresh homemade food, and today's accomplishments really help with that too, hehe. Oh and not to mention the TONS of milk he has frozen in the freezer, I almost need a separate freezer to hold all of it! Thank goodness that stuff last forever as well. It's so nice to know your baby is well taken care of, ya know? Anyways toodles for now!



*hugs n' fuzzies*

                                              Here is Brayden today playing and very happy!