Roly Poly

Last month, at 4 months old, Noah rolled over for the first time. John and I were so excited. We took pictures. We clapped. We cheered. Noah looked at us like we were crazy. 

And while this is an exciting new development for Noah, it's brought on some new challenges as well. You see, Noah loves rolling over so much that he does it while he's sleeping. Thing is, he doesn't yet know how to roll onto his back, so when he rolls onto his stomach in the middle of the night, he freaks out. And just like when he was a newborn, he seems to want to do this at 3 am (this must be his favorite time to do anything). It's also been a struggle putting him to bed. Before, his bedtime was 8 pm. We'd put him in his overnight diaper, pajamas, and sleep sack, put in his pacifier and kiss him goodnight. And that was it. Now, we kiss him goodnight and say, "Ok, see you in about 5 minutes." You see, whenever Noah starts crying, we don't rush in there right away. We always time it for 5 minutes because during those 5 minutes he'll usually stop crying and soothe himself to sleep. Well, not anymore. Nowadays, he's usually crying because he's rolled over and can't roll himself back. So we have to go in there and lay him on his back again. But within minutes, he'll roll back over and start crying again. And so this continues from anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour. We are really trying to teach him how to roll onto his back so he won't freak out every time he does this. So lately, we've been practicing a lot of tummy time and giving him little nudges so he'll get the idea to push himself over (it's always something, isn't it?)