In the last two months...

So although Sully is no longer sleeping through the night (he has a cold and it's thrown him off big time!) he's still pretty cute, so I wanted to share some pictures of him! There's also been a lot of firsts and accomplishments since my last posting so I thought I'd brag on my boy a little, too. (He's six months old now...can you believe it?!?)

Sully had his first St. Patrick's Day and his first Easter and got dolled up for both. He enjoyed some corned beef and cabbage (a la breast milk) and got his first chocolate bunny from the Easter Bunny (it was plastic). He even helped Grandpa Griffith dye some eggs (and it's rare that Grandpa ever dyes eggs, so it really was a first!)

He also started sitting up with minimal support, spending more time outside, eating baby food, and using his Johnny Jump -Up, which he loves.

And oh yeah - he learned to read!

So that's a quick look at what Sully's has been doing since March. We're going to the zoo for the first time tomorrow and his baptism in on Sunday, so I'm sure I'll have many more adorable pictures to put up soon. Until then, cross your fingers that he'll sleep tonight!!

Hallelujah!

So it's been almost two months since my last posting, and Sully has lots of new tricks. I've been wanting to put up some new pictures, but we got a new computer and it's really a pain to upload pictures from the camera. So I've been putting off posting because it's just not as fun without pictures.

However...something very exciting happened last night that I just had to share. And you won't need a picture to appreciate it!

Sully FINALLY slept through the night last night! And it only took 6 months! He didn't fall asleep until a little after 9pm (even though I put him down at 7:30). We've started letting him cry until he is asleep and it's hard, but last night it seemed to do the trick because Sully didn't wake up until 5:30am! That's 8 hours of consecutive sleep, people! I, of course, didn't go to bed until 11:30, so I only got 5 1/2 hours of consecutive sleep (I woke up at 5:00, rushed in the nursery to make sure Sully was still breathing, and was too hyped up to go back to sleep since this was the first night in his whole life he slept that long!), but man, was it heaven!

I'm trying not to get my hopes up because I know this won't be an every day occurence, but at least now I know it's possible! It's also getting easier to put him to bed at night, which is really nice. Usually he goes right to sleep after we go through the bedtime routine. (Last night was funky though because he was in Arlington Heights with me and took a nap in the car right before we started the bedtime routine.) And naps are coming together, too. Today I put him in his crib expecting him to fuss, but he was asleep in like 30 seconds. Mark asked me, "Where's the baby?" And when I said, "In his crib," he didn't believe me because Sully was so quiet!

There you go - the best news ever! I think Sully was just practicing for Mother's Day and on Saturday he's going to sleep until 7! Cross your fingers for me!

There's so much more to share about our little peanut, so I will try to get some pictures put up before the end of the week. He's getting so big so fast! He'll be 6 months old on Mother's Day and he's up to 15lbs 12 oz. It's hard to believe - I can hardly keep up! (Which is obvious by my lack of posting....)