Last night, as you might have guessed from the headline, Conrad slept an amazing 9.5 hours, from 7.30pm after his bed-time feed when he nodded off in my arms until 5am this morning. (That’s summer time still, as we didn’t bother changing the clocks during the night – as Ian pointed out it’d only be depressing to see that the time was 4.30/5am when we got woken up by the kids rather than 5.30/6am…) I wasn’t even wearing the one earplug I sometimes do to not get disturbed by Conrad’s little murmurs and snuffles, and didn’t hear a peep from him all night!
At 5am I gave Conrad a feed and put him back in his cot, and as has been the case lately, at this time, he didn’t mind being back in his cot but started chatting and mumbling to himself, in a very happy way. Some mornings he can be quite loud (in an excited and happy way), and although I didn’t think he was as loud this time, unfortunately I could hear his sister stir in her room next door. After about 20 minutes, Conrad drifted back off to sleep.
As the clocks were going back, Ian and I had decided to try to nudge the kids’ bedtime a bit at the time, starting with giving them their last feed before bed-time at 7.15pm rather than 7pm last night. Unfortunately, Conrad managed to stir his sister enough this morning so that she got up more or less at her usual time. As Ian’s the one on ‘Jessica duty’ at the moment, though, I lingered in bed for a while longer while Conrad snoozed. We will see if we can gradually persuade Conrad and his sister to shunt their sleep a little – and hopefully Conrad will be less noisy at (what is now) 4am in the morning…
Conrad is such a happy little boy! He’s giggled lots in the past from me doing so anyway, but yesterday when I kissed his cheeks Conrad laughed and laughed and it was a proper laugh – amazingly similar to his sister’s and just as infectious: it made Ian and me laugh too and I just couldn’t stop kissing him (until I started to fear Conrad getting worn out).
We paid Tilgate Park a short visit again yesterday, as the weather was lovely and it’s not very far. When we arrived, Conrad was awake and very soon got bored in his back seat in the push chair, so I lifted him out and carried him around for a while, which cheered him up straight away. Anything and everything grabs his attention: he was equally – or perhaps actually even more, it seemed – interested in fences, bins and benches as he was in the animals. I had to put Conrad back in the push chair for the walk uphill to the café where we were planning to have lunch and he wasn’t too happy with that at first, but when we sat down around a table outside he was already asleep. He didn’t stir until he was put back in the car and then was watching the world go by all the way home. You can certainly tell he’s more awake and alert nowadays, finds interest in and absorbs what goes on around him.
Gabriella