So LO's bedtime is at 8pm and normally wakes up at around 6:30am (yes still early) but for the past 4 days hes been waking up at 5:30 and this morning woke up at 4:30! I dont know whats wrong with him. He wakes up crying. Did any of you go through this or is going through this? I'm looking for any advice, if theres anything you did to keep LO sleeping later please share. Thanks.

 I understand from their perspective and I realize that we didn't have anything official, but it still really sucks.   And there's nothing else comparable available and moving day is speeding towards us and now we have nowhere to live!  

 Ack!  I'm freaking out! 

... it went fine and he is now snoozin in his crib.  He has a pedi appt on friday so I'll have them check him over anyway, but so far he seems fine and just a bit rattled by it all and we didn't ewant to drag him in for a checkup and stress him out more unless something seemed amiss.

Momma needs a shot or three 

 I think the highly eratic weather changes here were partly to blame.  The humidifier got a work out since the weather started to heat up and I think that helped.   Mommy however felt like she was dying last weekend and is still coughing... I knew I shoulda done those keigels   I haven't worried this much about coughing since I was pregnant lol.

I was talking to a mom friend of mine last week (who has a 3yo and a son two months younger than DS) and she was talking about how she'd already signed her youngest up on the waiting list for her preferred pre-school. I was so surprised...it honestly hadn't even crossed my mind until she mentioned it! I feel super behind and I'm hoping there are some of you who haven't visited preschools yet either, because then I wouldn't feel like such a lousy mom. We live in a small town so there are only a handful of decent preschools and I would feel terrible if DS couldn't go to one because I dropped the ball.

I'm definitely going to call the Montessori preschool next week and schedule a visit!

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The knobs for our stove are on the front, so these seemed perfect.  And they were.. for about a week, until DS figured them out.  Yes, my Hulk of a son can pop those suckers open and grab the knobs.  So, has anyone had success with anything else?

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Have you taken your LO somewhere and regretted it? I also took him to tour a local gym and discuss membership a month or so ago and that was another mistake.

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Ever since I found out I was pregnant, DS has been glued to me! I am not exaggerating, he fights, screams, throws himself, if I put him down, leave the room, don't let him sleep on me. Surprisingly, he is completely fine when we drop him off at daycare, he doesn't cry or anything.  He goes with teacher and plays with kids.

But when we are home...it's a nightmare! He's not falling asleep on his own in crib anymore.  He wants to literally be on me..even if he falls asleep on my shoulder, second I put him down, tantrum begins. I can't get ready, clean, cook, go to bathroom...nothing without him having a fit because I am not carrying him. And honestly I just can't carry him all the time, even thought he is a peanut, it's tiring. And I don't want him to get used to be carried all the time either.

What do you all do? Do you just let LO cry? I don't even know how to handle this, he's never been like this before. Within the past month it feels like he's getting worst!

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Then you add in a morning like this.

4:30am: DH's alarm clock goes off. He hits snooze a couple times and gets up at like 5:05.

5:10/15: DH comes to tell me he can't get the TV to turn on. I come out and push the button on the DISH box. Ta-da! Go back to bed. DD starts fussing. DH takes care of it.

5:45: DH brings DD to me because she won't calm down anymore. She refuses to go back to sleep. Wants to play. We get up at 5:55.

She usually wakes up at 7 so this was a very early morning. When I'm used to waking up at that time, no problem. But I'm not used to it so I'm like the walking dead right now.

on another note, anyone read about Mayim Bialik and Danica McKeller yesterday about co-sharing and breastfeeding? https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2013/05/wonder-years-star-danica-mckellar-on-why-she-breastfed-until-son-was-2/

'd it Ok...i am really on a spaz super high good mood. Must be cause its FRIDAY!! XOXOXO

I try to hold his hands and help assist with walking and he will fall to the floor and want to crawl. Sometimes he will walk assisted, but most not.

He honestly just does not seem interested in walking.

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DS used to sleep until 7:30 or 8 on days that I didn't work, including weekends.  I work 2-3 days a week and on those days I have to wake him up at 6 so we can be out the door on time.  In the last couple of weeks, he has been waking up earlier and earlier, to the point that he's now waking up between 6 and 6:30 every day.  I know he's still tired and he's been cranky during the stretch from waking up to his first nap (I actually put him down a half hour early yesterday because he was so tired, whiny, cranky, etc.) but when he first wakes up in the morning he's wide awake, happy and has no interest in going back to sleep.  We co-sleep for part of the night, so he's in our bed in the morning, therefore it's not really an option to just let him play in his crib (and putting in his crib to play just results in screaming).

He takes 2 naps during the day and they are an hour to an hour and a half each (so he gets 2 1/2 to 3 hours of sleep during the day) and typically goes to sleep around 8:30.  Last night, as an experiment, I tried putting him to bed a little later but he still was wide awake at 6:15.

Any suggestions?