this summer is getting tough

he demanded to see the lime that i was cutting. after examining, he bit
right in. hrmmm.... kind of funny tasting...
need a second bite to make sure it really tastes as sour as it is.
ok, this time, he really gets it. but after that, he still bit into it two more times. babies are so funny!

he has certainly thrown us a curve ball lately. naps are so hard to predict. sometimes it is 12-2, sometimes 3-4:30, sometimes 3:30 to 6pm... i never know when he is going to go down. i used to insist on a certain time, but then we would just lay there for an hour, sometime more and he would not fall asleep. about 3 weeks ago, i started just waiting until he is ready to plop down and go to sleep. it is much easier and once he was so tired by 2:45, he actually went to his bed, tucked himself in and fell asleep by himself!!! that was so cute - i was almost overwhelmed with the urge to wake him up and hug him.

we have also started bypassing naps when it just isn't convenient. i.e. when we have special events. on sat we had a baby shower right at his nap time. he only slept for 30 minutes on the car ride there, but he was soooo exhausted by 8:30pm that he fell asleep in 10 minutes and didn't wake up until 8am. that was great.... almost like being able to sleep in :)

at least he still sleeps pretty well through the night. avg of 10 hrs a night. BUT he almost always wakes up at some point, storms over to our room (he sleeps in a twin now) and demands daddy. so daddy jumps out of bed and goes to sleep with thomas for the remainder of the night. sometimes as soon as he sees William rolling out of bed, he turns around, runs back and plops into bed. as long as he knows daddy is coming and sees him lay down, he goes right back to sleep. daddy has Sleep SPOILED thomas. yes siree, all of my training has gone right out the door.

one thing i'm not looking forward to that last set of molars coming in. i am sure that it will take at least a few weeks of clingy-ness, as well as one of us sleeping with him at night to get him through. hope we don't have a heat wave when that happens. that will just make it worse.

and he has been on a food strike for the last 3 days as well. he is sooo picky, looking at everything very closely before deciding whether to allow it to go into his mouth or not. and if he doesn't like the way it tastes, it comes right back out. sometimes if he doesn't like the way it smells, he won't even open up. needless to say, he has still been pooping at least once or twice a day, so i figure he is getting enough.

a last word about temper tantrums... how to describe it. hmmmm.... an angry bee? a mad puppy? knashing of teeth and banging of head on the floor? it is all those things rolled in one. and you want to laugh sooooo bad - but at this age, he knows you are laughing at him and it makes him even more mad. so you try to keep a straight face and ask him what is wrong. it is really hard. and he has learned to pout - he does it exquisitely well. i will have to post pics of that. no idea where he got that b/c i don't think either william or i pout... do i? don't think so. maybe from tv. who knows!