Monday, June 6, 2011

breaking a habit

let me break it down for ya.
when parker was born the hospital gave us a swaddle. best thing ever. really. we would wrap this little dudes arms down and then he would sleep like a baby. now that he is almost 6 months old (i know.... crazy huh?) and the weather is starting to warm up, we decided it was time to loose the swaddle and let the little dude experience sleeping with his arms free. ive wanted to break him of this habit for a few months now, but have always been to nervous to try it because lets be honest, i enjoy my sleep way to much. well ladies and gents (do guys even read this thing?) we have completed 2 nights swaddle free! the first night was a little rough. parker woke up and few times and the look on his face was like what am i doing awake, with my arms free? the second night went way better, only waking up once. im hoping by the weekend we will be back to sleeping through the night!

last week we had some new people move in above us... at 10:00 pm. who moves in at 10 o'clock at night? ya.... annoying. the next morning i woke up to hear water dripping in our kitchen. i thought maybe our kitchen sink was leaking. i walked into our kitchen and do you think i saw water dripping from our sink? oh no... no my friends, the water dripping was coming from our ceiling by our washer. the new neighbors couldnt wait until the morning to hook up their washer. apparently they didnt hook it up tight enough. it had been leaking all night. luckily the damage wasnt too bad. just a wet wall and wet carpet. the manager should be coming to repaint the wall soon.

the weather this last weekend was absolutely beautiful. parker and i got to hang out with jared all weekend outside playing at the park, riding our bikes, and BBQing.this is how we bbq with kyle and carissa. yummy!

my old roommate melanie came into town last weekend. it was fun to catch up and see her since she will be moving back to colorado soon.
now that parker is almost 6 months old, i have finally gotten around to putting his room together. this is all i have so far.

the before:
the after:anddddd.... i think that about sums up everything that is going on in the rucks home. now if you will excuse me, i need to go take care of my screaming dude... dont let his cuteness in these pictures deceive you!

3 comments:

Perry said...

he's getting so big!!! The apartment thing reminds me of our drama we went through when we live in Cougar Court and then we had a mold infested apartment. That sucks. Good luck with all of it!

alyssa said...

aww parker's 6 months old!! holy crap!! he's SO cute

Joel & Megan said...

I'm glad he's doing better without the swaddle. Alice NEVER liked being swaddle. I wish I had HAD a trick to get her to sleep :P She just kept wanting to sleep on our chest. It was fun though. I can't believe how big parker is. He'll be a YEAR before you know it!!!