Happy Easter!  OK so this picture is a few weeks late.

Hanging out with Grandpa Pat on Easter Morning…

 
I brought Grandpa Steve a new hat!

Yes, Luke has given us the full treatment this week with his sleeping schedule.  We started out pretty rough and ended up awesome!  Last Sunday we had Sather Easter/April Birthday celebration at Grandma and Grandpa Sather's and Luke was pretty cranky, he wasn't interested in having a nap.  When we got home around 4 or so, he totally crashed and napped all evening and slept until 3:45 am and didn't go back to sleep until 5:30 which is when I need to get in the shower for work, so that was a rough day for me.  We picked him up from day care to find that he had slept all day.  So that night (Mon to Tues) he was up from 12:45 – 3:15 or something like that.  I even woke Ryan up for some of this, not that he really woke up, but I tried and he was in some hot water.  Thankfully Luke wasn't crabby, but I was.  It only made it worse that I was up at 3:45 the previous morning.  And the monitor wasn't working.  Finally, I just put Luke in his bed and because the monitor wasn't working I slept on his floor for about an hour and tried again with the monitor.  I think Ryan heard me that time because some profane language might have been used.  He got the monitors working and I was able to go to bed for an hour before the alarm went off.  Two rough days!  That was actually my birthday too, so we all were in bed around 9:00 and Luke slept really good that night so we finally got some sleep.

 Then!!!!!  Thurs night to Friday he slept from 10-5  YEAH!!!  Friday we were at Steve and Kathy's again and didn't get home until late, but he slept from 1-9:30!!!!  And last night he slept from 9:30 to 7!!  This is awesome!!  I am sure that I just jinxed myself, but I am so excited about getting some sleep!

Luke is very active and can support his weight on his legs, he loves to stand.  He is super smiley and makes a lot of sounds.  He is supporting his head and back really well so we put him in the jumper thing and he loves it (not the doorway kind, like and exer-saucer, but it bounces).  He is reaching for toys now and growing quite the funny little personality.  I am not ashamed to tell you that he is a Momma's Boy!!

 More pics to come this afternoon sometime!

Kathy

Yes, it is back to work I go (actually went).  I went back to work on Tuesday, they were much happier to see me, than I was to see them.  I know that my boss gets these updates (Hi Bonnie) but she understands.  I actually started crying a week before I went back and then basically all night Monday night and then dropping Luke off at Joan's and then I decided to sweeten my return to work with donuts for everyone who covered for me.  So I pulled myself together enough to go in the bakery (yes, I was the crazy lady buying donuts in her sunglasses) and then I was kind of okay.  I didn't cry at all the rest of the week so I was pretty proud of myself.  Did you know in Russia maternity leave is 3 YEARS!!  That is the only good thing I know about Russia or I would move there  🙂 

Luke's daycare is awesome and the other kids totally love him.  It is only a block and a half away from our house and Joan is a friend of Ryan's Parents so it wasn't as if I was leaving him with a total stranger, imagine the wreck I would have been ….   Anyway, the first night we picked him up and took him home and got his diaper changed and all settled in and he had lots of smiles for us and then the cooing and jabbering started and he was "talking" for about an hour, it was hysterical.  I don't know what he was telling me, but it was good.  I interpreted it as, "I missed you and this is what all the kids were doing…"  Then the 2nd night he came home ate and crashed, barely saw him with his eyes open.  Day three, had to wake him up to eat and go, basically put him in his car seat asleep, Ryan got a few smiles that morning, but it is really hard to go to work without hardly seeing any smiles!  

With all the kids and fun chaos at daycare he wasn't really napping, so finally Friday he figured it out a little and napped and he was a very happy baby last night.

Aside from daycare Luke started batting at the toys on his bouncy seat this week, this is really funny to watch and a God send for getting a few things done, I parked him in his chair in the kitchen and made my dessert for tonight, it was awesome!

All in all, I think daycare will be good for us.  I went 9 hours without being puked on and he learned it is okay to sit in his chair and amuse himself a little, he is also getting better at putting himself to sleep.  If only we could lose the 2 am feeding we would be good.  He did skip it last night, it was great I got 8 hours of sleep in two 4 hour chunks, I am a new woman!

 Okay, that is this weeks novel.  Happy Easter Everyone, I am sure we will have Easter pictures to post sometime next week.

Kathy