A Crazy Week

Dave has been sick for over a week. Since we don't currently have health insurance, he put off going to the doctor for several days. When he finally did go, the doctor took one look in his ear and said, "Yikes." Now he's on antibiotics for his ear and eye infections. Luckily, the eye infection is starting to clear up so that he can help out with Eddie again. Up until yesterday, I wouldn't allow Dave to touch Eddie because I did not want to have to deal with a baby with pink eye.

Since Dave has been out of commission for a week, that means that I have had to be in charge of Eddie 24 hours a day. Those of you who know me well know that I am not blessed with much patience... so it has been a trying week for all of us. It is a good thing that Eddie is so darn cute or I probably would've pulled all my hair out. He knows how to drive me absolutely crazy, but then he'll give me a smile and remind me why I got myself into this in the first place.

Rolling

Eddie reached a major milestone on Friday. He rolled for the first time (from front to back). He hasn't done it since, but luckily I had the presence of mind to film it. He only rolled completely over by himself once. His head seems to get in the way (as you will see). If only it were more rounded on that one side, it might make it easier... but we're working on that!

A Sleepy Boy

Eddie is a power-napper. He generally will only nap for 20-30 minutes at a time. Needless to say, this drives me crazy because I cannot get anything done! I didn't even realize this was strange until I saw how my niece Riley will nap for 3 hours at a time. How would that be?! Because of this tendency of Eddie's, I'm always surprised when he takes a longer nap. This is a story about just such a situation...

Our church starts at 1:00, so I generally try to work it out so that Eddie eats just before we leave. That way, he'll sleep through sacrament meeting at least and I won't have to feed him at church. Well, last Sunday, he was fighting the urge to sleep all morning long. He took a couple little tiny naps during the morning. Then, around 11:00, he ate. Afterwards, he fell asleep, so I put him in his swing so he would keep sleeping. Then I went about my business -- eating lunch, getting dressed, etc. Finally at 12:20, Eddie was still sleeping. Unfortunately, because of our church time, I had to wake him up. I turned off the swing, pulled him out, changed his diaper, and he looked like this:

He was still out! I laid down next to him and tickled his arms and said his name, trying to gently wake him. Occasionally, he'd crack an eye open to check me out.

It took me about 10 minutes to wake him up enough for him to eat. He ate for 5 minutes and was asleep again, so we strapped him in his car seat and went to church. I kept thinking he was going to wake up all through sacrament meeting, but he didn't. So between sacrament and Sunday school, I unstrapped him in case we needed to quickly get him out of his seat. That didn't wake him up, either. Finally, I took him to Relief Society and then he woke up. By my calculations, he took a 4 hour nap (with a brief meal in the middle). I think I could get used to that if he were to make it a habit. Or perhaps he was just using his Sunday as the Lord intended -- as his day of rest so that he can take 20 minute naps all week long and drive his momma crazy.