I don't know how some mothers do it, because for me, balancing it all is quite a task. If I'm not grouchy or stressed or exhausted or scolding everyone it's a lucky day!
Lucas is 8 months old now and still having sleep problems. At about 7 months, he started sleeping through the night about 3-4 nights a week. Then he got a cold and had a cough for about a week and a half. That finally started going away and all the sudden a rash appeared all over his back. I figured it was a heat rash, we talked to a doctor and got a cream for it. But since that Friday, he started waking up all through the night and wanting to be held constantly: every time we put him back in the crib he woke up. He would do this at 2 or 3 AM and not go back to sleep until 5 AM!!! Last night he finally slept - from bedtime around 7:30 to 3 AM. And this time, I only had to put him down twice before he fell asleep. His rash is healing, but it seems that the cream really dries his skin out :( Poor thing. But, I think he is doing better and we are trying not to hold him as much during the day and during naps so he will get used to it.
In other news, he started crawling at about 7 and a half months! Took him a couple weeks to figure out how to move on his hands and knees instead of scooting but now he crawls all over the house. He follows me from room to room if I let him! He pulls up to a standing position on anything he can find, too.
Leyla is about to turn 4 in a week!!! We are going to celebrate her birthday at school on Monday with her class. I will probably make cupcakes and we'll take a pinata. She is loving school and has learned so many songs and new things - she sings CONSTANTLY and is always singing something new or making up a song. She has learned 10 Little Indians, When the Saints go Marching in, This is the Day, and a few others. I love to hear her sing! She has several little friends - Pamela, Amy Camila, Stella, Nicholas, Mario, Diego, and Carlos are the ones she talks about the most. She always says they are coming to her house to play! She is also learning to write her vowels, a, e, i, o, and u. We do her homework every week and she either has to trace the letters or most recently, write them herself freehand. I think she is doing really good for her age! She can write the "i" almost perfectly, but the other letters are a bit harder to do freehand.
Here are just a few pictures of the past three months.
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