Respect the Sleep Schedule!

My mom has been making fun of me for telling her this, but after everything that I read in that sleep book came true, I have learned it is important! She does a great job considering that Easton doesn't nap very well outside of his crib. Last Friday when she was babysitting she was running a lot of errands and he didn't get a nap all day. Tyson picked him up around three and brought him home. When they got there, Tyson set Easton down in the middle of the living room floor to let him play and turned around for a minute to put his phone and wallet on the table. He couldn't hear Easton so he turned around to see what he was into and this is what he found.

He slept here for an hour and a half! I texted this picture to my mom and she said, "Oops I guess I didn't respect the sleep schedule!" She was caught red handed.

Hunting

It's that time of the year again. Tyson drew a southern rifle tag this year which is just what he wanted. It worked out perfectly because we had fall break this week from school. Tyson, Easton, and I went down to Scipio Wednesday night after school and young mens and set up his parent's tent trailer. We spent Thursday and Friday looking for deer. Easton and I came home late Friday night because I had to work today (Saturday). Tyson's brother and dad came down just as Easton and I were leaving and they will all be there until tomorrow. We'll see if they have any luck!

We had a lot of fun, but Easton had a hard time because he couldn't play with anything that he wanted: dirt, fire, hot dog roasters, and the list goes on. I found out I could entertain him be giving him a banana. He can eat the whole thing!

Camo Boys

4 Wheeling (just in a circle around the campsite)

A bunch of deer we saw

The weather was so beautiful while we were there! The nights were cold but the days were 60s and 70s. It was so nice! If you've never been hunting, it involves lots of driving around so you get to see a lot of beautiful views.

One time the clouds were really low and we could barely see anything except what was right in front of us.

Easton and I got home around 11 last night and I had to work all day today. Kelsey and Danny watched Easton. They took him to the Bean Museum at BYU. Easton's had more deer than he can handle this week!

First Steps

Easton is growing up way too fast! He is learning to walk and he's doing so great! He is so much fun! On Saturday I was laying on the floor playing with him and Tyson came home from work and laid down by me. Easton came over to join in the spoon. He laid down in front of me and just relaxed. He loves it when mom and dad are home at the same time. He is sleeping so well and is drinking milk out of a sippy cup now. He's hardly a baby anymore! Here is a video of some good steps from Aunt Amanda to Uncle Thomas.

Catching Up: on one CRAPPY week and learning how to sleep

Well, let's start off with the CRAPPY week. Three weeks ago Monday, I took Easton to the doctor because he had had a bad cold for almost a month. We got him an antibiotic. Then on Thursday, I started to notice a diaper rash. It wasn't bad, but from working at the pharm I knew that antibiotics can cause yeast infections. So I had the dr call in some cream. Two days later the rash was a total nightmare!!! And making the rash incredibly worse was the fact that Easton was suffering from extremely disgusting diarhea. Poor baby. So I kept calling the nurses and they kept saying to just let him go free without a diaper.

Here he is going naked and looking very innocent as he digs into my chocolate muffin.

The problem with letting him "go free" was that he kept "going free" all over the floor. I spent three days chasing after him with hot rags and lysol. It was NOT fun. Tyson took him in to the doctor again when his rash was getting worse and the doctor called in some ointment for me to mix at work. It's kind of a mystery how it worked because the medicine that was in was really a cholesterol medicine. When I got home from work that night with the ointment, Arlene was changing his bum and he was just screaming in pain. It was the saddest thing ever. But the second I put that ointment on he was fine! It was a miracle drug! This made it possible for us to go watch Tyson's last softball game. Easton was very cautious the whole time. He chose to stand for the entire game because he was too concerned about sitting on his sore bottom.

We put Easton on soy milk for 3 days which he loved and it seemed to help him get better. Wednesday was the worst day. The rash was bleeding and blistering. Then on Thursday it magically went away! We had a fun weekend with my family. Friday night we went to Alta High School's homecoming game to see my sister Kate hand over her crown. My Grandma came down from Idaho and we all went to the General Relief Society meeting and had dinner for my dad's birthday on Saturday.

Tyson finally had a Sunday off work. These are my handsome boys ready for church.

Throughout the crappy week we decided that we can no longer stay up all night with Easton. He has been waking up at least 3 times a night and waking up for good at 5:00 for the last 11 months and we couldn't take it anymore. I had read that the problem was that we were rocking him to sleep every night and for every nap. We made a committment to let him cry himself to sleep starting Sunday night. The first night took 10 minutes of crying and messing up his bedding.

The second night was worse and took almost a half hour. But ever since then it's been only a minute or two. He caught on to it really well and has been sleeping for 12 hours straight since the first night! It's amazing! Here's my boys waking up. Well, maybe Tyson's not quite awake.

Easton is growing bigger every day! He thinks he can talk in sentences now. He is 11 months today. Time flies!