I can see a lot of life in you.

Elliot was a banana for Halloween. He looked adorable even though he didn’t seem to totally love his costume. His little “girlfriend” who is also our neighbor and a total cougar (9 months), came over to show off her ladybug costume. She waved at El and I think he has the mad hots for her. 

I did not dress up this year and it made me feel 35. I didn’t feel like wasting money on creating a costume and have been too tired lately to even think about starting any sort of project. 

Elliot has reached some new “milestone” of sorts, where he has realized that he doesn’t have to go to sleep just because the lights are off. Once an awesome sleeper, (he went anywhere from 7-10 hours a night sleeping straight through by 2 months), Elliot now seems to be up every couple of hours, or sooner. His routine has never been changed and I don’t speak to him or turn on any lights when entering his room, but I think he just wants to play. He’s never hungry. Numerous times a night over his monitor I will just hear this sweet cooing and when I go in, he’s usually waving his arms and smiling. I love sleeping so this is certainly a bummer, but I can’t and don’t really want to complain too much about such a cute little boy just trying to have fun. We’ll see what happens and I guess in the meantime I will just be incredibly exhausted.   

Elliot and I have also been at war with eczema this month. The poor little guy is just covered in it completely some days and other days his skin is clear and perfect. I’m slowly trying to weed things out or away from him to see what could be the cause of his skin issues, or at least to see what I can add or eliminate to make it better. I think at this point we’ve tried about $100 dollars worth of different lotions and creams.  I guess that a lot of babies have problems with eczema, but I never seem to see any out and about and I always wonder if people are staring and wondering if I even attempt to fix his face. Probably not. People are never as judgmental as we think. 

This past half hour was spent dancing with a sticky, lotioned up baby who laughs and smiles when I make him shake his booty to Savage’s “swing!” These simple pleasures and sweet moments trump the small daily annoyances for sure. Hopefully this sleep-deprived and itchy baby can squeeze some sleep in along with playing alone in the dark tonight.