Cat Napper

So I know I have said that Henry is a champion sleeper. And he was... but lately he does not take naps longer than 30-40 mins.
He does put himself to sleep with help of a pacifier, but after that sleep cycle is up, he's up. I'll go in to put his pacifier back in after about 5-10 mins of crying (hoping he'll go back to sleep on his own), but no go, he won't go back to sleep.
Sometimes I'll go in immediately (hoping he's not fully awake) and stick it back in and it doesn't work either.
I can't even rock him back to sleep or if I put him in his swing.
He's still swaddled.
I've even tried to get him to sleep on his stomach, but he doesn't like that either.
I've tried keeping him up longer in between naps (2 hours after a feeding, one hour before next feeding) and I've tried putting him to bed earlier, about a half hour to an hour after he's been fed, two hours before his next feeding. Either way doesn't matter.
He's on a schedule: 7, 10, 1, 4, 7, 9, 4.
This means that he only sleeps about 1 1/2 hour to 2 hours during the day. This cannot be healthy.
Usually only wakes up once a night, sometimes twice.

I couldn't find anything different online than what I've already done. Has this happened to any of your kids? What did you do? What should I do?????

Happy 1/4th Birthday!

Today my little chunk is 3 months old! I cannot believe how fast time has gone by. We are so lucky to have him in our family, can't imagine life without him! At 3 mos, Henry can:
--coo like nobody's business, I'm afraid we might have another chatter box, folks
--flash some gummy grins
--giggle, especially at his Dad
--sleep from 9-7, waking up once
--put himself to sleep
--bats at toys dangling in front of him
--suck on his fists
--cuddle with his Momma in the glider
--and last but not least, grow like a weed!!!

Love you, Henry!

For the Love of Books

What is up with last books of series?? They're pretty much always lame. Breaking Dawn was pure agony for me to read, way back when, and Mockingjay wasn't much better. It had a slow start followed by a pretty good middle leading to an abrupt, anticlimactic end. I hated that Peeta was brainwashed or whatever. I hated that Gale's story just dropped off at the end. There was all this hullabaloo about the war and killing Snow and then boom the war's over and Snow's captured. It seemed like the writer ran out of steam at the end and just quickly tied it up. Lame.
I needed to wait until someone, who's taste in books I really trusted, read it and then decided whether or not it was worth the effort to read. Cuz, c'mon. That book convinced me that I need to take a little break from reading. I had invested myself too much in the book before it even came out and it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Okay, enough venting. I loved the series overall and will read them again. I'll go see the movie when it comes out. Seriously, The Hunger Games was amazing, so was Catching Fire and I think it was a high standard for Mockingjay to live up to.

Mom and Kids

You'd never believe how many takes it takes to get a shot with everyone looking at the camera.

These were just the tip of the iceberg...

Dapper Henry

I finished making these pants this morning for Henry. We are hoping to get some family pictures done soon and I couldn't find any pants that I liked. So I made these for about $6 out of some nice herringbone suiting material. Can't beat that price. I love his little hat too. I found it at H&M for 5 bucks and I think it's worth every penny. It's a touch too big right now so I'll need to adjust that, but I love it! Hopefully we can figure out someone to take our photos.