Random thoughts and updates

It seems like so much has been going on lately so I thought I would just make a general post for it all!

First of all, I am exhausted. Noah has been waking up the past week at night and it has been taking awhile to get him back down. I am not willing to let him try and cry it out, and he has been sleeping through the night for awhile so I am assuming it is just something that will work itself out. I don't mind getting up with him and cuddling, but it is starting to wear on me...mostly because after being up for an hour it is too hard to fall back asleep. I have tried bringing him to bed with us, but that is just not going to work. He perks right up when he is in our room and thinks its time to wake Daddy up to play, and it just makes it even harder for him to get back to sleep (not to mention I then have a grumpy husband also awake...which I will admit I secretly and selfishly enjoy when Brandon also has to wake up also). He does seem to be going through a growth spurt (he has been eating like crazy) so I am hoping that as the spurt starts to level off he will start sleeping well again. In the meantime, I am in zombie mode, and thankfully Brandon is being very understanding of my exhaustion and not griping at me about slacking off around the house this week.

In other news we are trying to find some land for us to build a house on. We want to move out of this condo, which is quickly filling up, in 2 years. Since we are going to do most of the work ourselves (well by "we" I mean Brandon and his family) it will probably take longer than most housing projects take. We have looked at a few plots of land but Brandon is so darn picky about what he wants (at least 5-10 acres, neighbors that are not too close but not too far, partially wooded, within 20 minutes of his shop) we haven't found anything. We looked at 10 acres that I loved, and he liked okay, but after going to see it a few times he decided it was too far to drive everyday. We still have some time to find what we want...but I have a feeling that once Eli comes we may decide that 2 years is too long to wait!

Lastly...I splurged and bought a video baby monitor. I love it! I can see everything going on in that little crib. I never realized what a busy body Noah was. Last night after we laid him down we watched him try to fall asleep. As soon as I left his room he stood up and started running back and forth in his crib, then he held onto the railing and started jumping. After a few minutes he turned on his sound machine and laid down, and after rolling around for a few minutes he fell asleep. All this time I though he just fell right to sleep at night. :)