Ezra and -v- are sleeping on the couch right now. Ezra’s back raises with each breath. He lay there still and calm.
It’s times like these that I wish Ezra would not grow up because he looks so much at peace and cute, but with life there is time and with time is growth. I suppose during times like this it is best to capture the moment any way one can.
With ear aches possibly killed off with White Strawberry Smooth Flavored Amoxicillin / Clavulanate Potassium, and with Ezra eating solid foods, and with Ezra crawling and moving more and more, and with the teething not being too bad, Ezra has been sleeping longer and deeper during the night. …YAY!!! Ezra sleep during most the night!
Ezra is snoring during first nap, the morning nap. He is snoring loud and long and clear. His snores are heard through the monitor and sound sort of like a loud and soft continuous fart. Hearing the snore in the room the snore doesn’t sound like a continuous fart. Hearing the snore in the room there is no denying that he is his father’s son with his deep and smooth snore. …The boy can make a snore!
I had to find the Golden Alarm’s snooze button which just happen to be a pacifier. I found it. Then I talked to the Golden Alarm. Then his loud whine became silence, and the Golden Alarm was off.
After Ezra officially is put to bed for the night there are typically a couple of Ezra Aftershocks with him waking with a teething pain, a gas bubble, or some other discomfort that may arouse him from his sleep. -v- and I are then alerted to this discomfort through one of the two baby monitors or a crying sound that carries through the thin walls of the house.
If -v- and I are awake, we usually take turns going into Ezra’s room and try to sooth Ezra back to sleep. My technique is simple: I try to find the pacifier and put it his mouth and hope and hope and hope that he calms and returns to peaceful sleep. If he doesn’t, then usually -v- will be needed to help sooth Ezra to sleep.
If -v- and I are sleeping, then -v- usually wakes up. On the occasion I wake up, I do the same thing I do when -v- and I are awake, which usually never works, and -v- then wakes and soothes Ezra.
Some time during the past couple of days Ezra has been called Prince Ezra by -v- and I. I have been thinking this and calling him Prince Ezra for days. Days after needing to carry Prince Ezra around to prevent him from entering in to a fussy fit of snot and tears when X reason was causing Prince Ezra to be in a fussy fit of snot and tears. I have called him Prince Ezra after waking for the third or forth time during the night to try to calm a crying and fussy Prince Ezra from calling out for his parents. I have called him Prince Ezra while he was sitting on his high chair throwing one toy after another on to the floor only wanting another toy to throw on the floor.
Now Prince Ezra sleeps. In fact, Prince Ezra may have gone back to the kingdom. His mood today is less Prince Ezra like and more like the Ezra I know and enjoy. The Ezra that doesn’t need to be attached to -v- or I to sleep, be calm, eat, sit, stand or exist. The Ezra that sleeps through most of the night. The Ezra that wakes with loud talking noises and not loud screams and shouts. The Ezra that smiles more than frowns. The Ezra that sleeps through most the night for more than one night.
Only time will tell if Prince Ezra is truly gone. Even if Prince Ezra returns, I will love him all the same as I love Ezra. I am after all King.
Ezra fell asleep this evening while I was talking on the phone with my friend Liz. We were talking about babies - maybe Ezra found it boring to hear me talk about him for so many minutes. This was about 7pm. I took him upstairs and put him in his crib, and he did not stir or wake up. He is still asleep - and it’s 8:26! I wish that Ezra would sleep tonight just as he slept last night - which was awesomely well! So…I’m trying not to get my hopes up, but it would be so nice for everyone.
Right now I am listening to Radio Lab on OPB, and there is a segment on a baby not sleeping. I have read lots of blogs and bulletin posts about baby sleep, and it makes me feel better that other people have problems with baby sleep just like us. I know that somewhere out there are people with babies who sleep and sleep and sleep all night long, but I haven’t read many blog posts about that. They aren’t blogging about their fortunate situation, probably because they are asleep.
Last night was weird because Ezra slept last night while -v- and I were still awake. The night was weird because Ezra was not tense many times during the night or call out many times during the night. For a few moments this morning, it was scary because I thought that something might be wrong with Ezra because he was still sleeping. Then I heard a cough from the room and the steady breathing from the monitor. He was sleeping.
There is no denying that Tooth #4 is. Now it is seen with the other three front teeth poking out of the gums giving a clear future of Ezra looking like a beaver for a short time.
Now that the teething of Tooth #4 is complete and the tooth exists, the tension from the teething of Tooth #4 has faded, and Ezra seems to not be bothered by very intense teething during sleep or before sleeping.
Unfortunately, as soon as one cause of sleeplessness goes away another another comes to be. This time another daycare cough kept Ezra awake last night. The cough has been developing since Wednesday. Everything about Ezra’s health is good except for a cough that woke him up last night making everyone’s sleep shorter than wanted.
Tooth #4 is here and the daycare cough will fade, too, so maybe some time during the next week we will all sleep during the entire night for more than one night. I do believe, however, more teeth are soon on the way for he is beginning to try to shove objects further into the mouth to chew upon the deeper regions of the gums, so it could come to pass that we will not be sleeping the entire night for a few years.
We are all pushing for Ezra to birth Tooth #4 from gums. While aspects of Sleepy Ezra have returned to the house, and -v- and I have been sleeping for longer periods of time, Tooth #4 has not punctured the gums causing teething and fussiness and Sleeping Ezra to leave and be replaced by Fussy Ezra with a face covered with snot and spit. Thankfully, the tooth is about ready to burst through.
-v- and I are thankful that the pediatrician didn’t notice any bulges in the gums at yesterday’s checkup signifying that no more teeth are to begin to tear through Ezra’s gums anytime soon. We are thankful because -v- and I would like Sleepy Ezra to remain for a week or two while we rest up for the next teething bout or emergency or sickness or emergency-sickness.
-v- and I watched Escape From L.A. list night with Ezra in his bedroom. Ezra, like Snake Plissken after escaping New York and escaping L.A., needed some sleep. Ezra did not see Snake Plissken Escape from L.A. because he was sleeping after taking to breast.
At 2:30 I escaped from sleep. Ezra was just making talking noise. Then at 3:45 A.M. I left the bed, so Ezra could get some more sleep close to -v- because he woke with lots tension.
The source of tension, we believe, is teething and possible memories of him vomiting more than once in Ezra’s Bedroom and all over his bed, which could be making him not want to sleep in Ezra’s Bedroom. For Snake Plissken the tension to make sleep difficult was and will be New York and L.A. was and will be too intense for sleep, and Snake Plissken has bombs in his body while in New York and he will believe he has a virus in his body that is going to kill him while in L.A..
Something has happened to Sleepy Ezra. During the past week, Sleepy Ezra was replaced by Awake Ezra, who wants to stay up two to three hours more per night and only take naps that last minutes and not hours. While it is great fun to hangout with Awake Ezra, Awake Ezra becomes Fussy Ezra then Screaming Ezra when we lay him down for sleep time. Awake Ezra is further awakened possibly by Tooth #4 pushing through the gums as I write, so we are hoping that after Tooth #4 pushes through that he won’t be getting any more teeth for a few days or weeks, so maybe Sleepy Ezra returns, and we can get some sleep.
Yo. EZ-O moved into his own crib this weekend! Awwww yeah! He’s livin’ large now. His spot is the best place in the whole house for shizzle.
Yes, Ezra made the move from the porta-crib to his real, sturdy comfortable crib this weekend.Â
It all happened so quickly, at least according to Kalab. However, I’ve been working up to this for weeks. It just happened abruptly this weekend because I woke up on Saturday night 4 times before 3am-  Ezra was alternately snoring and talking in his sleep, or would lose his pacifier and wake up and decide he wanted a snack - and by 2:30am felt that he had to be moved right then and there.Â
I have personally been trying since Grandma O left to only get up once to feed Ezra and otherwise have been trying to get him to soothe himself back to sleep when he wakes up(Kalab was just not informed of this). This is hard to do when he’s in the room with you and every move he makes causes you to wake up. And I think it’s hard on him as well - I’ve read that your baby can smell your milk from up to 2 or 3 feet away, so when they wake up and smell the milk, they probably feel like they might as well get some. Kind of like if you’re a coffee drinker, the smell of coffee brewing can wake you up and get you out of bed.
The other reason for the move is that I had this thought a week or so ago that took hold and wouldn’t leave me alone -  part of the reason he was so stuffy and snoring was because he was too close to the floor and the level of the heat vent, in front of which both our cats like to nap . So I imagined that he was inhaling a huge amount of dusty, dirty, cat-dander-filled air and this was causing him to sleep badly, and would probably lead him to develop allergies or asthma or some other lung problems later in life. This may or may not be true, but at 2:30am on Sunday this was all I could think about and this is what actually sparked the big move to Ezra’s big crib this weekend.
He seems to like his crib, and I think he’s OK with being in his room alone. Although he has been putting up something of a fuss at night, that could be attributed more to his teething - another of life’s abrupt changes he’s got to go through.
It has been a week of change for Ezra. First Ezra got in the high chair and new what it was like to be high. Then Ezra ate rice pudding as his first solid food. Then the location where Ezra’s bath tub is placed during Ezra’s baths was moved from the kitchen sink to the tub. THEN we began to try to get Ezra to sleep through the night to begin a sleeping schedule for Ezra. AND last night another change for Ezra: he began sleeping in his own big boy room.
Yes, big boy Ezra is now going to sleep in his own big boy room and big boy bed. It was a change that was planned to occur in a couple of weeks because we didn’t want all this change to occur in such a short span of time. We wanted to wait for Ezra to adjust to the change of seating, eating, bathing, and sleeping time. But last night -v- moved Ezra from the travel crib in our room into the crib in his big boy room after a night of Ezra talking in his sleeping and waking up at two and three and wanting to talk to very tired parents.
The Golden Alarm began with a few morning cries waking -v-. The Golden Alarm changed from cries to soft whines and talkie noises after a diaper change. I took the Golden Alarm downstairs to play with the Golden Alarm while mom went back to bed. After a few minutes of holding and walking around the house, the Golden Alarm was talkie noises and beatbox sounds. During stand practice, the Golden Alarm smiled and squealed with joy. The Golden Alarm even hopped around working out its growing strong legs. The Golden Alarm talked and talked and talked and talked and talked until the Golden Alarm was fed. Then the Golden Alarm became fussy whines that went silent. The Golden Alarm’s snooze button had been reset. The Golden Alarm went back to bed.
We’ve already established that little Ezra may have an affinity for ducks, but I am wondering now if he is going to be a night owl or early bird. For a while, I was pretty sure that he was definitely going to be an early bird, like his dad.
For the last 6 weeks or so, Ezra’s been tired and put down to sleep anywhere from 5:30 - 7:00. Those weeks, it was normal for him to go to sleep and not wake up again until 5 or 6 in the morning, aside from maybe a snack here and there. But now, what was normal is possibly becoming not normal. What’s been normal the last 5 nights is Ezra getting fussy and then going to sleep at about 6, but then waking up after about 2 hours and wanting to eat and talk, or cry and then eat and talk, maybe do a little stand practicing, maybe get in a diaper change, before finally agreeing (2 hours later) to fall asleep again. So far, this hasn’t been accompanied by any middle-of-the-night periods of extreme wakefulness, and it also hasn’t been accompanied by much difference in the time that Ezra wakes up. But the fact that he isn’t totally ready to call it a night at 6pm makes me think that maybe he could still become a night owl like his mom (used to be).