19 weeks!

Ok, hopefully we're back on track for a little while.

Here's my little guy at 19 weeks:

Ryan, 19 weeks old!

In Ryan news, he loves bouncing and sucking on his lower lip.  No matter how tired he is, he loves to bounce and jump.  He gets the biggest smile on his face and laughs and it's absolutely wonderful! 

Sleep training is going better than we expected.  We're now almost a week into it and he's had a couple of pretty good nights where he's been able to go back to sleep rather easily.  There were two nights where it was pretty difficult to get him to fall back asleep, but we're hoping those were rare.  Overall, he's been able to go about 9pm - 5am without feeding, and has usually woken up twice and needed to be soothed back to sleep both times.  He even went 9pm - 6am one night without feeding.  Either way, Joe and I feel that he's getting better about sleeping.  We went ahead and ordered a crib for him because we've noticed that sometimes when we go in to soothe him (Joe) or feed him (me), he's completely sideways in the cosleeper so his feet are sticking up in the air because he can't stretch out.  Time to move to a bigger bed! 

Ryan is getting VERY close to sitting up on his own!  He needs just a tiny tiny bit of assistance to keep his balance, but otherwise, he's doing a great job.  At Oma's house this week, he sat up without assistance (but kind of sat like a tripod) for about 10 seconds before he leaned all the way forward and faceplanted on the floor.  But this is progress!