Rolling is Exhausting!

Last Monday was so exciting! When I arrived at the daycare after work, his teachers could not stop gushing about how he had rolled over! YAY! I couldn't wait to get him home so that he could show mommy and daddy his new circus tricks (because you KNOW he's not going to do it for us first. I guess he figures we got our share of the excitement during birth. We must spread the love!) If I had only known the implications of this milestone then....

 Rolling over is quite exciting for Grey! And just to prove to us how much he loves it, he's taken to practicing his newfound talent as much as possible, including in the middle of the night. Now that rolling for Junior = no sleeping for mommy and daddy (apparently he thought we were getting too much sleep before?) it's not nearly as exciting to us as it initially was. Nighttime now consists of us being awoken at 11 pm, 1 am, 3 am, 4:30 am all hours of the night to the shrieks of a baby who's stuck on his tummy. Keep in mind this kid has hated tummy time since day 1. On the rare occassions we could actually get him to succumb to tummy torture time, he'd start off on his back, then sloooooowly turns on his side, hang out for a bit, then eventually flop over on his tummy. Then he'd lift his head and look around for about 30 seconds, get tired of holding his head up, faceplant and lick the blanket for a minute, then hysterics. Now I don't know if those are the same steps he takes when rolling in the middle of the night, but judging from the screaming baby monitor next to my ear, the outcome definitely appears to be the same. 

 Junior's rolling has presented some new challenges for us as well. Most notably, there's no leaving him unattended on his changing pad anymore. Not that we made a habit of that before, but when the motion sensor on his crib monitor was screaming that OMG THE BABY'S NOT MOVING!!!! (well, duh, he's not in the crib), it was pretty easy to take the two steps across the room, switch it off, and return to the changing table in 2 seconds flat. Now we have to take Junior with us to perform that 2 second task. And when you think about it, the fact that he's on his changing table in the first place should be a pretty good indication that he's not exactly suitable to take any kind of journey, even the 2 second kind. We've been lucky so far and haven't had any peeing across the carpet incidents (or, god forbid, the other kind of incidents), but it's making us much better at remembering to turn the stupid alarm off before taking him out of the crib. See? Mommy and Daddy are trainable too.

 Checking In!

Weeks Post Partum: 21 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: I'm finally back to my pre-pregnancy weight! Actually I was a pound under this morning. So now I just need someone to tell me the reason why, if my scale insists that I'm skinny again, are some of my clothes still arguing otherwise? 
Sleep: Riiiiiiiight. See above.  
Best moment this week: Greyden rolling over.
What I miss: Greyden not rolling over.
What I am looking forward to: Greyden figuring out how to roll the other direction, from his tummy back to his back.
Milestones: In addition to rolling, Junior also found his piggies. It makes for interesting diaper changes when you're trying to work around an infant that is hell-bent on chewing his toes.