The K Train: Nightmare on P Street

Week two of working is going great as I'm starting to not dread going to work. Originally, I was so sad to be going back to work and really considered staying at home. I'm glad I am sticking with work. I have a lot of respect for women that choose to stay at home. And who knows, I may end up staying home when he and far-off-future-Baby #2 are older but right now I feel like I appreciate my time with him more now. I also know that I am much more attentive to him. I think that if I stayed at home I would be more likely to have one of those kids that are screaming their heads off in Target because I would be so used to it that I could ignore it and therefore everyone else would be able to ignore it.

M has been a little grumpy this week. I'm pretty sure that he's going through a growth spurt. However, my co-worker and friend, Jason, informed me that that's what they say for everything and it really is the truth. Any time that M is fussy, I always say it's a "growth spurt." I guess it's because he's never really that fussy and when he is I have to blame it on something and not because he's being a complete nightmare to which I don't know how I'm going to get through the day. For example, here's how it went this morning:

Oh so cute happy baby!

A split second later Nightmare Mason is back!

We have had a few "firsts" this week and it's only Wednesday. M is sitting in his Bumbo!! Let's not forget, this kid is ONLY 7.5 weeks old. I am so impressed! M has always been a little wiggle worm and great with his head and neck control. From Day 1 he's been able to pick up his head and sit it back down without jerking it around like they usually do. But sitting in his Bumbo already?? That's just amazing to me! I have been thinking that maybe we should try it but wasn't sure if he was too young. Then I got a pic from Ms. Dawn with him sitting in it like a big boy and she said that he did great! Here's our pic:

So of course I couldn't wait to try it when I got home for myself. It's true, he did it!!

I had a personal "first" this week. I have given up trying to put him in a routine. In talking to Ms. Dawn originally, I told her that I wanted to start putting him down in his crib around 10 or 11 am for a nap or at least for some "quiet time." We have come to the conclusion that a) it's too early to be doing routines and b) I may have a kid that doesn't take naps. Ms. Dawn said that she has been trying to lay him down but he just sits and talks to the monitor. Granted, she did say that she's never had a baby that self soothes like he does, especially in the crib but she thought that he was probably too young. After all, he may doze off for about 10 minutes but then he's back at it kicking and playing. He is seriously so active I won't be surprised if he doesn't take a nap at all when he's older. BUT he will have "quiet time" at least because I need to get things done or maybe take a quick nap ;-) Here's a video that Ms. Dawn sent of him hanging out in his crib talking into the monitor:

This last "first" is something that M has just now started doing. I was leaving work yesterday afternoon when I received a text from Josh saying, "will you please come home and make your son stop crying???" Now, let's just have a side note. Whenever M cries, Josh does not like it. Not saying that I like it, I just have a little more tolerance over it. So I called him to check in ~~because I was freaking out~~. M had been crying for about 5 minutes straight so Josh had put him in his crib because he wasn't hungry and he did not have a dirty diaper so he couldn't figure out what was wrong. M is a really good baby. He usually never cries unless something is wrong so it was strange that he was doing this. And when I mean screaming, I mean he was wailing and crying so hard that he was coughing. Let's also mention that M was in his crib which is in his room with the door shut while Josh was talking to me in the living room and it sounded like M was right next to the phone screaming.

Here I go rushing home to see what is going on. I give Josh a fly-by kiss (who is on the couch looking like a deer in headlights) and go to pick M up from his crib and he immediately stops crying. I look at Josh who says, "wait for it..." M starting screaming again. So we try walking around the house which works for about 2 minutes... More screaming.. Finally I sit down and ask Josh to make a couple of ounces in a bottle for me. Now, M had just eaten about two hours ago so there was no way that he should have been hungry. Except that homeboy drank 5 more ounces and was perfectly fine. It was the WEIRDEST thing! He has never done that before!! So we escaped from this experience unharmed.. Mostly. Until today...

I am having to work later on this evening and won't get home until around 9:30 pm. I text Josh around 3:00 pm to ask how he was doing. His response was "he hates me." He was screaming AGAIN! Josh knew that M couldn't be hungry because he had just fed him an hour earlier. Meanwhile, I am stuck at work hating my life because I can't go home to help calm him down. Fortunately, Ms. Dawn had told Josh that if it happened again to give M an ounce of water because it may just be that M likes the sucking sensation and water isn't bad for babies. SUCCESS IS OURS!!! I checked back in with Josh about 15 minutes later and his response was "how do you think he feels?" with this picture:

Hopefully, this nightmare screaming match will end soon. We're not quite sure why he has started doing this but we're hoping that the water trick will keep working. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure Josh might go insane ;-)

Here's some more cuteness pics that we got this week: