Notes from the crib

I realized this week that I am on the go from 4:30 in the morning until almost midnight every night. It's no wonder I'm exhausted. I gave myself permission to nap this week and that helped quite a bit, but my task list didn't get any shorter with the mid-day naps. George has not been consistently napping, so I only got to sleep if he did. Some days he doesn't nap at all, some days he wants to go to sleep at 11 AM, and now most recently he's been going down from about 4-6PM. At that point, I'd rather he just stay up and go to bed at 6. Oh well, for the most part I'm just happy that he does nap, whenever it happens.

George amazes us every day with how clever he is. One day he picked up a CD from the floor and carried it over to DH's computer and tried to put it in the CD tray. We have no idea how he knew where the CD tray was, let alone that the CD he found across the room would go in the tray. We don't think he's ever seen us put a CD in a computer like that, so it's not like he was watching and mimicking our behavior.

He's known about our remote controls for awhile and will pick them up, point them at the TV, press buttons, and see what happens. This week he learned how to take the battery door off the back of the remote and remove the batteries. Luckily, he tries to hand the batteries to DH as soon as he removes them. We now make a concerted effort to keep the remote out of reach, so George won't harm himself. Sometimes he still manages to get ahold of the remote and doesn't like it when we take it away from him. He's gotten very good at his angry tantrum face.