New Toys

I bought Carter a swing today.


We're planning on attaching it to the side of the deck where it is about 5 feet off the ground. Carter's probably still a little too small for the swing, but if we stuff some blankets around him, he may be able to use it already. Toys 'R Us had a buy one, get one free deal on Little Tikes toys this week so I got Carter an activity walker too.


He's getting so strong when I hold him in a standing position. I only have to hold his hands and he can stay standing for quite a while.

Carter has really had a set back with night time sleeping this last week. A few nights he's started screaming about an hour after we put him to bed. He'll scream like he's in pain or scared for five or ten minutes and then usually fall back asleep for five or ten minutes and then start again. After doing this a few times, he just doesn't go back to sleep. His eyes are closed while he's screaming so it seems like he's not awake and having a nightmare. Sometimes Carter will stop screaming after we pick him up but as soon as we put him back down, he screams again. If we manage to get him down again, he's been starting the screaming again within 15 minutes. We've ended up having to turn on lights and wake him up completely for a little bit to get him to "reset". I went out to lunch with my friends from Baby Bookworms on Wednesday and the nine month old son of one of the women seems to do the same thing some times. He is really similar to Carter with his daytime cat naps (though at five months he started taking one longer nap, though never in his crib). Even though all the books say babies don't have bad dreams until they are at least a year old, her pediatrician seemed to think that's what was going on. We think Carter may be going through a developmental change and his little brain is just having trouble figuring stuff out. Hopefully the screaming will stop soon because we hate it for him.

Other nights Carter has woken up in the middle of the night and is just not interested in going back to sleep. And then a few nights he's gotten up twice to be fed. Hopefully we'll get our good night time sleeper back soon! It's hard when he doesn't sleep well during the day or night!