Jack Kaden

The first words a doctor used to describe Jack when he was just about 3 seconds old was “he’s such a little wiggler.”
That is still true today, although now he’s also a roller and a grabber of pretty much everything, but specifically remote controls and cell phones. Usually while someone is using them.
Anyway. [...]

In the mornings, one of us gets up at around 6:00 to retrieve Jack from his crib. A quick bottle and diaper change and then we head back to bed for a just a few more minutes before the day begins.
Sometimes, if we’re lucky, Jack will nod back off in our bed, which is [...]

I have food poisoning. Or maybe a virus. We can’t decide. Whatever it is won’t go away and has made me prone to vomiting and wandering into the living room waving the Braun ThermoScan (god, I love that thing) around, just to prove that yes, my fever is really 102.2 degrees and yes, you really [...]

Last night my son went to sleep at 8pm. He fussed (not shrieked) for 15 minutes and then promptly slept until 7AM, when I woke him up.
His occupational therapist attributed some of his fussiness in the past 10 days to some major developmental achievements. The kid has been working hard. As of today Jack:
1) [...]

Jack is still crying it out. I am heavily medicating myself at night. We alternate between 1/2 and 1 hour of full out screaming on Jack’s part, and then immediate deep sleep, also on Jack’s part. The good news is that we’ve now moved the whole CIO experience up to to 8:30. By the time [...]