Roll over baby!
Posted by Missy Roberts at 9:25 PM About Jake
Today, Jacob rolled over from his back to his tummy for the first time. He was playing in his gym on the floor reaching up for the giraffe and parrot while mommy was talking on the phone with Auntie Melinda. I turned away for him for a couple of seconds and when I looked back at him he was lifting his legs and was on his side. I was shocked! He has not been showing any signs of trying to turn over, but something told me that he was going to do it today. Mommy was so excited and was encouraging him to push harder to roll all the way over. He attempted a couple more times, but with no luck. Then he got tired so mommy took him to see daddy and to tell daddy what just happened. Of course daddy was very excited and wanted to see if Jacob would actually do it. So on the floor in daddy's office we layed Jacob down and teased him with some of his toys. His little legs kept coming up and his hips were moving, but nothing. Of course we were video taping the whole time because both of us knew that it was going to happen very soon and we are hoping to catch all of his milestones on camera. All of a sudden, those legs went up, his hips moved and over he went. He layed there on his belly for a couple of seconds and then went back on his back. He had a smile on his face when he heard his mommy and daddy cheering for him. A short time later he rolled over again. This time he stayed on his tummy and struggled to roll back over and began to cry. Needless to say we were so proud of our little boy who is growing so fast. After his hard work of rolling over he took a nap because that took a lot of energy out of him.
Tomorrow Jacob will be 4 months old. We can't believe how fast the time goes by. he will visit his doctor tomorrow for his check up and we will see just how much he has grown.
Jake has been in his room for over a week now and he's still not completely used to it. He has been waking up in the middle of the night for really no reason. He usually wakes up at around 12:30 or so and struggles to go back to sleep which has made for several sleepless nights for both mommy and daddy. When he wakes up crying mommy tries to consol him without picking him up, but it doesn't work. I pick him up to rock him back to sleep, hold him for a bit and then put him back in his crib. It's as though there are needles in his bed becasue the second I lay him down he starts moving around and moaning and then begins to cry. It is quite frustrating for us becasue this goes on for a long time. Some nights it's at least a couple of hours before he finally settles down and stays asleep, and then he's up a couple of hours later because he's hungry. I'm sure one day we will look back on these days and say remember when...right now all we are saying is remember when we got some sleep. I for one cannot remember the last time I actually slept through the night. When I was pregnant, I was waking up during the night and staying up for a couple of hours because I couldn't go back to sleep. I kept saying that was God's way of preparing me for a baby, but now I wish I would have gotten more sleep while I was pregnant. I wish there was a way you could store up the extra sleep you get before children to be able to use when you have a baby. I know one day we'll be able to sleep again, but boy does that seem far off right now. As I'm typing this my eyes are burning and half open and it's only 9:30. I remember when 9:30 was when I was just getting started with stuff. There were those days when I would go to sleep at 12 or so, wake up at 5am to go to work and function perfectly fine. Bill and I were just talking about that the other day. We would stay up late, get up early and still have lots of energy. I guess when it's you controlling how much sleep your body gets, you adjust fine, but when someone else is waking you up, your body doesn't like it. Oh well, it is so worth the lack of sleep we get just to be able to hold Jacob in our arms and see him smile everyday!
Mommy and daddy love you Jacob, even when you keep us up all night:)