Holiday weekend and the Battle of Mommy & B

We had a fantastic weekend. We walked down to Peach Days on Saturday morning and had a blast walking around all the booths. We enjoyed the food (not Navajo Tacos... the line was too long) and some fresh squeezed lemonades.. yum yum. Pat had never been to Peach Days!! Then Pat had his 10 year HS reunion. It was such a blast. We had a great time seeing everyone again. Charity did a great job throwing it together last minute!! Thanks again Charity, we had such a great time! Of course like always, Pat and I forgot to bring our camera to either event. So here are a few stolen pic's from the reunion... Pat was off gabbing (imagine that) :D.




















Then Sunday we slept in and Pat enjoyed some quality "net surfing" with B.























Later we went to Pat's mom's for dinner. The weather was so nice it was officially the first "outside" bbq since spring. When we left B was not too happy about being in his car seat. Look at those sad eyes :(









Last, but not least. I finally got a picture of the little teefers. This is a rare occurrence these past few days, B being this smiley. Mom has decided that it is time for him to sleep in his own bed. Yes I committed a big mommy sin (according to my mom and many other friends)... B has been sleeping in our bed. It's just easier since I breastfeed... and ya, so I'm lazy... we all knew this, right? So anyway, we've had about three days of battling to see who is more stubborn. Mommy is winning :). Nap time has not been too much of a struggle. Since I have been putting him in his swing since he was born for nap time. So he's use to being put down so to speak for that. Bed time has been a whole other issue. The first night I just did a little. I got him to sleep,put him in his crib and then when he woke about an hour later... I just brought him back into bed with me... then the next night was two bouts of nursing, rocking and crib. Then into bed with us at about 2am. However I am proud to report, after two hours of struggling at bed time last night (It's a good thing I got started at 8) he fell asleep in his own crib and slept without a peep till 5:30 this morning. And of course he came into bed with us then. So we are definitely making some progress! I'm feeling so good about it too because he does not sleep that well when he's in bed with us... he usually wakes up and wants to nurse back to sleep two times nightly. So for him to have a full (well almost) night's rest in his crib made me feel so good. I read in one of my books that this can take up to a month before he will get into the routine of sleeping in his own bed without a fight. I didn't think I was up for it, but I've worked some of my own styles of parenting into the routine (I cannot let him lay there and cry it out... no freakin way) and it seems to be working. I'll keep ya'll posted... I'm sure this is riveting stuff ;)