Special Visitors

The past two weeks have been so nice because Iain's parents, Edna and Andrew, AKA Gran and Grandad came to visit. We had such a good time together visiting. I know Callum enjoyed his walks around the yard and neighborhood as well as his numerous bottles, baths and cuddles. Grandad also fixed about a million things around our house. Some of these things we knew needed fixing and some we didn't. Everything looks great and we can't thank him enough for all of his hard work while on his vacation! Although we don't see each other as often as we would like, we make up for our time apart when we do get together! The five of us even managed dinner out one evening and Iain & I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary by going to a viewing of "Sex & the City" (Iain's choice) and out to Chili's for a late dinner. We don't quite have the stamina we did a few months ago, but Iain and I did really enjoy our date night. We hope that Gran and Grandad have a safe trip home to Scotland (en route as I type) and to see them very soon! Our newest challenge has been to try and get Callum to fall asleep on his own. Our little guy is so cuddly and just loves being fed or rocked to sleep- who can blame him? Unfortunately I have given into his desires for the past 8 weeks so now he won't go to sleep on his own. Big problem given he is no where near sleeping through the night or taking naps without falling completely asleep and then being put down. So now we are onto the "cry it out" method. For those of you without kids, basically the name says it all. Callum is laid down after eating-while sleepy-and he has to fall asleep on his own. Needless to say- he's been crying a lot. I only started using this method yesterday for his nap and boy was it hard. He cried in his bedroom and I cried in the kitchen. But he did fall asleep and even smiled at me when he woke up. Same thing happened today. We haven't tried it at night yet but this is the plan. I go back to work in approximately 4 weeks and just can't be getting up 3-4 times a night which is what I'm doing now to settle him down each time he wakes up. I did have a break because Gran Burnett was kind enough to do several midnight feedings this week but I'm on my own now. Iain's working a new job- 1st shift- so I'm helping him get onto this schedule and looking forward to the weekends when he'll get up with Callum a few times. We'll keep you posted on our progress.