Tales of Baby McCabe: Merry Christmas/Happy New Year!

I can't believe it is already 2014. This last year absolutely flew by! Our sweet William entered the world, making it one of the best years of our lives. It was so much fun to watch Nolan go from a young one year old to an incredibly active, energetic, happy, sweet two year old. He is learning new things every day and it is so fun to see.

We had a very busy Christmas, going to Jason's parents for Christmas Eve and my parents' on Christmas Day. Nolan and William were very spoiled at each Christmas celebration and from us/Santa! It's hard to make room for all the new toys and clothes. What lucky boys! Nolan got overtired because we didn't leave Christmas Eve until 10, so we didn't get home until around 11:30. He did fall asleep in the car and transferred well to his bed when we got home, but he just did not get enough sleep. We're going to have to leave earlier next year. But he was a trooper on Christmas Day and did pretty well considering his lack of sleep. He loved getting presents, but still didn't quite "get it" yet. He would open one present, want to play with it, and not care about the other presents, so I opened most of them. I'm sure next year it will be a different story.

William is rolling, rolling rolling! Back to tummy still. He still gets mad when he realizes he's on his stomach, but he will last a minute or two before we roll him back onto his back. But then he just ends up rolling back over onto his tummy. Silly guy. We are still going through sleep regression hell. There's no better word for it. We need to figure out how to get him to sleep with his arms out, not swaddled. He is not liking that. Also, he is losing the pacifier way too many times per night for it to be effective. So we'll probably take that away soon and have him learn to self soothe. Not sure when we're going to do these things, but I know it needs to be soon because we are getting very little sleep (less than 5 hours of broken sleep). I keep hoping he'll come out of this regression on his own and start sleeping well again, but I don't think that's going to happen. So we'll probably have to do some sleep training.

Here is a photo bomb of pictures from the last two weeks (phone and camera). Enjoy!