I really didn't know you could be more in love with someone. That's not entirely true. It was like this with his sister too. Amazing how somehow through the sleep deprivation and craziness he can still steal my heart.
I'm sure you can see his eyes are goofy in this picture ...it actually made me take a closer look at him and realize that he has esotropia. So off to the baby eye doctor we went ...we're currently patching his good eye two hours a day and hoping to strengthen the lazy eye ..which is just silly. I mean honestly. A seven month old with a pirate patch couldn't be cuter. He doesn't actually seem to mind ...but he's getting some skin breakdown for it. The eye doc also picked up an astigmatism ..so we're probably looking at glasses at some point in time. Good thing I passed on vision insurance for him ...ha!
I moved his crib into our bedroom and attached it to our bed a la giant co-sleeper. He still thinks his crib mattress is made of nails. Amazing, really ...he's super sound asleep in our bed ...I slide him six inches over onto his mattress and he wakes up instantly. I realize this is somehow my fault. But seriously. Six inches away?? And are any of you still swaddling a seven month old? I'm sure this is going nowhere fast ...but the kid won't sleep without being swaddled. It's so bad that now when I lay him down on his swaddle blanket he tucks his own arms into the sides to get ready to be wrapped up. I've tried weaning him out of it...but even in it I'm lucky if he sleeps a solid two hours. Very lucky. I get mad...and then he does something silly like shake his head no for an hour and a half straight the day he learned how to do it and all of the lack of sleeping is forgotten.
Right?
