Foiled Again

There's this idea that comes with the second child that their arrival isn't awaited in quite the same manner as the first.  If your children are (relatively) close in age, there may not be the need (nor the time) to research car seat options and evaluate every minute detail of double strollers.  In our case, we bought a double stroller but didn't worry too much about other baby gear.  Except the furniture.

Abbey's (very girly) furniture was purchased specifically with the intention of growing with her throughout her childhood, basically until she falls out of our little nest into a dorm room (should that be her chosen life path.)  So we needed new furniture for our new baby, and we didn't know he was a he. 

After trekking through numerous furniture stores (where Abbey may or may not have jumped up and down on various expensive bedding sets mattresses), Ryan and I finally agreed on a lovely, well-made, general neutral bedroom set, complete with a lovely, well-made, general neutral crib.

We should have just bought a slipcover and left Ryan's beloved office furniture in the extra bedroom.

New Year's Resolution #142 (really? no idea how many resolutions I'll have, but this is one of them) - Figure out a way to get Dylan to nap and sleep through the night in his lovely, well-made, gender-neutral but perfect for a little boy, crib.

where he should be napping

but never naps

although he sleep here at night

most of the time

where he sometimes falls asleep

where he most frequently naps

and sometimes sleeps at night, unfortunately

the reason it's so hard to consider letting him cry in his crib

sleeping babies melt my heart into a pile of mush

but something's got to give

seriously