Regarding Ryan's sleep schedule, for some reason the weekend after Thanksgiving he started fighting going to bed at night (1-2hrs), followed by actually getting out of his toddler bed and crying and running to the door, then screaming as we made him go back to bed. We went through 4 nights in a row of one of us finally sitting in his room until he fell asleep and then sneaking out. Then came the worst night we have had yet. Ryan woke up around 12:30am one morning and got out of bed and ran to his door crying and screaming. By the time I got to his room he had opened the door and I could tell he was sad/upset. Unfortunately, after trading off every hour and a half with Mike by 6:00am neither of us had been able to get him back to sleep. (This is very unlike our child). When Mike set him at the breakfast table because he wanted to "eat, Momma, eat" he finally fell asleep. After just one night of this I knew that I would never survive it continuing both physically and emotionally as I was dealing with another stress at the same time, so off came the toddler rails and right back on went the crib front!! We have gained our sanity back with this change and Mike has switched with me and now puts Ryan to bed which seems to keep him calmer. After the change back to the crib we gradually went from 1-2hrs to falling asleep for bedtime to only about 10-15 minutes of crying now. It is certainly an improvement, but still so crazy since Ryan was so great about naps and bedtime and went down without a peep, usually a hug and kiss and "bye bye Mommy", or Night Night Mommy". I really hope this is just a phase and can be attributed to molars, night terrors, or separation anxiety and eventually we will return to the toddler rails. Oh well, toddler bed, you were fun and Ryan did great for 2 months! Maybe after his 2nd birthday we will attempt again...
I haven't kept any kind of list this month regarding Ryan's accomplishments or activities, so I am trying to recall off the top of my head. We are still attending MOPS on Tuesdays and Ryan enjoys having his cousin Naomi in MOPPETS "E" with him. On Wednesdays we still have our Little Gym "Beasts" class. We went to the Fort Worth Zoo with Mike for the first time the week of Thanksgiving and had a really great time! Ryan is really working on the endings of words lately with sounds such as "CK", "T", "P", "D", etc. He sometimes confuses the endings or at least seems to try different sounds out such as one day when he called the school buses "Buck" instead of "Bus", but he seems to have those straight now. I sometimes wonder if the tubes in his ears make him hear certain sounds a little bit differently, but after repeating a few times he will generally correct himself and get it right. He is very clear with words such as "Milk", "Park", "Walk", "Clock", "Duck", "Sock", etc. He is definitely starting to string words together and vocabulary seems to grow and change weekly. Latest I can think of is "I got you". He is starting to recognize letters (A, E, D, T, C, U, & O) and his current favorite number is "2" and when counting '1, 2, 3,' it's typically "two, two, TWO". When we count to 10 if you stop he will say the numbers 2, 8, and 10. He especially loves mimicking us these days and I will sometimes just challenge him after saying a particular word and then ask "Can Ryan say ...?" The latest favorites for me to hear him say clearly were "elbow & eye ball", but there are many more than make us chuckle. Regarding colors, Ryan says yellow, red, blue, purple, pink, white, grey, and een (green). Still no orange, brown or black just yet and he is still being fairly stubborn with clearly saying green, but it is the same noise he makes every time he sees or picks up the color so I know that he does know it. Ryan is such a joy and has a personality that is loving, inquisitive, and sensitive filled with his Dad's sense of humor, his Mom's planning/organizing/type A mindset, and the stubbornness of a mule. ;) We love him so much and are really enjoying watching him grow!! (and can't believe how fast that is happening)
I am finding it harder and harder to find time to blog these days so you'll notice this is almost 2 weeks delayed... I think after Ryan's 2nd birthday I will only blog major milestones and not necessarily monthly. We are currently amid preparations for Christmas. We have already had three Christmas, and this week brings two more family parties and then Christmas Day morning celebrations of course followed by the Campbell family Christmas afternoon/evening. It is a busy month, but I absolutely love this time of year with cooler temperatures, festive decorations and lights, Christmas music, hot cider, Christmas movies, fires, and most of all the Reason for the Season, celebrating the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ!! Traditions are so great to have and we seem to have the most around the holidays. It is great getting to start brand new traditions with our newest generation as we enjoy the Holiday Carriage Rides through our neighborhood and enjoy Prairie Lights with Ryan for the 2nd time this year. Our family wishes yours a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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