Sweet Dreams

It's official - my little baby isn't a little baby anymore.  This past weekend we set up his big boy bed.  We were going to take it slow and just start off with naptimes, but he wanted nothing to do with his crib Sunday night, so Mommy switched the mattress back to his new bed so he could sleep.  An hour and a half later, he finally went down.  It was a bit of a min-battle, and he was definitely testing his new freedom, but he finally fell asleep.  Every day has been better, and the past two nights he's pretty much gone right down.  I think we're ready to take his crib down this weekend.  It will be bittersweet, but his room is so small we definitely can't keep them both up.  My little guy is growing up way too fast.  I feel like he was just a baby!  It's wonderful to watch him grow and learn, but does it have to happen so fast??

In other good news, Connor had his Early Intervention re-eval this week.  Just to recap, he began EI a year ago (April 2009) and it was hard for him to focus and he became frustrated easily.  He screamed everytime he saw Sharon, his interventionist.  He made little progress, and at his 6 month evaluation he showed no improvement, which was very disheartening.  Wednesday, however, he was a rock star.  He actually started bringing his high chair into the living room so they could work.  He did everything they asked (with lots of laughs), and the speech interventionist was amazed at the progress he's made since she last saw him.  She told me that at his last eval he scored at around 10 months for speech.  Wednesday, he scored at 23 months!!!  Yes, we still have a lot of work left to do - but a 13 month jump in only 6 months is unreal.  I'm so proud of my little boy.  We've all been working so hard at getting him to this point, and he's just taking off.  Our next step is using sentences, and he's already learned "I want more".  Which is good, because he ALWAYS wants more (food, toys, play, etc.).  Like father like son!