Smiling, Crying, and Sleep

Guess you can tell by the title what fills my days. Those things and poop. :-) Since I know how to smile now, I like to do it all the time. This morning, I was so happy when my mommy was trying to nurse me that I had a hard time eating because I kept smiling at her. My daddy is really funny too. Every night when he comes home from work, he'll come up to me and ask, "What's for dinner Jonathinner?" I can't explain why, but I think that's the funniest thing I've ever heard and I smile and make laughy noises every time I hear that.

One day this week, I was really fussy. My mommy tried everything she could think of to help me feel better, but nothing worked. I didn't want her to hold me and rock. I didn't want her to walk around singing to me. I didn't want to be in my bouncy seat. I didn't want the swing. I didn't want to be in my crib. I didn't want to be on the floor with my activity gym. I didn't want to have tummy time. I just kept screaming. Finally mommy said, "Let's try this." and sat down at the piano with me in her lap and started playing. I really liked that. I sat quietly the entire time she was playing. She thought I was feeling better and stopped playing but I started crying again so she played a few more songs for me. I like music and now my parents know it too.

Since I hear my parents talking about it all the time, and everyone who talks to my parents about me asks them about it, I thought I'd update you on my night sleeping this week. In my last post, I told you how I'd slept till 5 am with an hour of crying to start the night. The next night, I nursed to sleep at 10:30 and slept till 5 am again. Then since you know I like to mix things up, I woke up every three hours the next two nights to eat. But I did try to apologize by giving my parents sweet 2 am smiles. It seemed to help. Several nights this week, I started crying when my mommy put me in the crib at 11 but she gave me my pacifier and let me hold her finger and I went right to sleep. The last two nights I only got up once at 3 am. I'll eventually figure this sleeping through the night thing out, but it's pretty hard.