I have been working to help teach Huck to fall asleep without nursing each time. It has been a struggle involving much singing, walking and dancing by all members of the family. While he still nurses to sleep at times, he is now able to fall asleep without it. I snapped this picture with the computer after he drifted off while watching the Itunes equalizer as lullabies were playing.
He is going through a testing phase - I think it is in reaction to little Duke's arrival. He will do "no nos" about 5 times and then do it once more with a smile on his face. I try to remain calm and remember all the changes for him, but it is quite hard! Today, I would put him off the bed each time he tried to pull the keys on my computer. He would scream and run down the hall (I blocked it off with the baby gate). When he came back, I would put him back up on the bed until he pulled the keys again. I repeated this about 5 times until he finally sat on my lap and fell asleep.
People have told me this is a boy phenomenon and so I get to do this again in a year or so. Do you think this behavior is inherent to males?
9 comments:
Must be.
Your mom
Boy will be boys - my mother said she could never of handled the boys without us girls to help. We thought of them as our baby dolls. tga
Hang in there.
-k
I would say its because he's so smart, not because he's a boy. He's just trying to figure out how things work, and to see if the rules have changed now that Duke is here. The picture is wonderful, so sweet!
Definitely! I would never have done anything like that....ha! I'm excited to see Dad for dinner tonight in SF!
Yes. Boys are the way they are from birth. They need more nuturing from day ONE.
Texas
Na, you're just lucky to have such a smart little guy!
He's testing, for sure, the smile says it all.
Girls do it, too. :p Just trying to figure out the real boundaries! They keep pushing as the boundaries get wider as they grow. It can make you crazy, but I'd rather have inquisitive, adventurous kids than docile ones.
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