We are finally feeling like normal people. Ethan is back to sleeping through the night but still wakes at his early hour of 5:30-6am, but lets face it - that will probably never change! As long as he sleeps through the night we can do that. Tanner has become a sleeper!! That's right people, he is finally sleeping consistently. He takes a morning nap that is around 1.5-2 hours long and then an afternoon nap that has been around three hours long. He goes to bed around 6-7pm, then at night he only wakes once at 12:30am to eat, and then starts to stir right around the time Ethan is getting up between 5-6am. We hope to break those nighttime feedings but know we are on our way! We have also found that if we feed him right before we go to bed (known as a "Dream Feed" since he eats without really waking up) he will go until about 4am. I attribute his sleeping to two things: putting him on his stomach to sleep and giving him more formula rather than breast milk. He has a great schedule now and we are all loving it.
I feel like I have chunks of free time now with Tanner sleeping and Ethan in preschool twice a week. What am I going to do with myself? I haven't felt like I have had much free time since Ethan was born - or at least when I did, I was too tired to do anything. Now I feel like I could work on a project or read a book during the day. I am not a reader but would like to improve my reading abilities. I would like to read The Hunger Games but I'm waiting to get my hands on those books. I would like to make a morning routine that includes reading scriptures, eating breakfast and figuring out lunch and dinner (I eat most meals but it is hard for me to find things I want to eat). I am going to make a quilt all by myself with my sewing machine Nanny gave me, start to make more complex and interesting dinners, learn to make fabulous rolls and bread, and maybe even exercise a few times a week. I am excited to do some self improving during my spurts of new-found time.
It was nice having Jared at church with us today. The bishopric jumps on him everytime he's able to come to church to talk about giving him a calling or giving a talk. I think they are finally starting to see that he doesn't have too much spare time and his church attendance can be very sparce from rotation to rotation. I know they have had callings they have wanted to ask him to do but I think they have had to rethink some of them. We are going to be speaking in three weeks and I'm not nervous at all. Normally I would be, but our ward is very laid back and anything I say will be just fine! It feels like people speak as if they are just talking to a friend in the room. I will not make my talk any more casual of course but I feel a sense of weight lifted off. I find this more laid back atmosphere in every auxiliary in our ward. I don't know if it's because we don't have the numbers or if it's just the culture, but it's different than any other ward I've been in. The ward has its pros and cons but it's the most welcoming and warm ward I have ever been in.
Ethan is doing well in preschool although he has cried the last few times. I know he likes it because he is happy when I pick him up and he says he had fun. I know he misses playing with me and everytime I pick him up he says, "Want to play Candy Land Mommy?!" I'm so glad he has preschool twice a week to get him out of the house and to interact with other kids again. He has become so content playing at home with me which I am grateful for but he's such a home-body now. I have a hard time getting him to go anywhere even if it's somewhere fun. We have come a long way from when we first moved to LA because I always felt like we had to be on the go. Now we are both content just laying low and playing around the house for the most part. I think he is more content because we have more space to play.
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