Stop and smell the flowers

Ella loves flowers. Every time we are on a walk she has to stop and smell them and occasionally will pick a few as long as they are not in neighbors yards of course. This weekend we went and bought flowers to plant in the yard and flower baskets. Ella loved helping. I wish that it was true help, but instead it took me twice as long since I had to go back and fix everything she had done. That is ok though. I also bought her, her own water bucket so she could water the flowers we had planted. Everyday she tells me she is watching the flowers grow. It is very cute and fun.

Parker is starting to sleep better finally. This did not happen on his own. On Friday I decided I was going to have to start letting him cry it out per the doctors wishes. Otherwise she told me it was only going to get worse and harder to correct. Friday was not too bad. Saturday and Sunday nights were terrible. I sat in his room in the rocker pretty much all night. If he knew I was in the room he would stop crying for a little bit. I did not talk to him, pick him up, or feed him. He just needed to see I was there. Finally, last night we did so much better. He cried at 1:30 I went in there put the passey in his mouth and he was back asleep. He woke back up at 5am and it had then been 7 hours since he had eaten last so I did feed him then and he was back asleep until 7:30. Huge success and I feel so much better after not sleeping more than 5 hours in 48 hours. I just hope it is all up hill from here. I am really starting to feel the affects of not sleeping. It has now been almost 5 months. Ella was the perfect sleeper as an infant so this is a whole new ball game for us. It breaks my heart to hear him cry, but even worse is trying to take care of them all day without any sleep. Something had to give. Wish us luck the next few nights. We have lots of visitors in the next few weeks and I know they are hoping Parker decides to sleep.