Yesterday morning, Evan woke up around 7:20 a and was clearly still sleepy. I put him on our bed and looked through one of his favorite books (The Moon Shines Down). He tossed and turned a bit, but was clearly sleepy and did not pay much attention to the book. In fact, he slapped at it, turning one page to next without really stopping to look at the pictures. It took me a while to realize that he wanted to move the book out of the way. When I did that, he quieted down and fell asleep (8am), and slept for another 50 minutes or so. Having gone to bed at 8:50 pm the night before, this meant he had about 11.3 hrs of sleep, so he was in especially good mood and spirit when he finally woke.
I put him in the high chair in the kitchen and warmed up some milk (organic whole, not formula) in his yellow straw sippy cup. Then I gave him the bottle and had him hold it himself while he watched me cook some eggs. He started drinking the milk and I on purposely did not look his way too often. When i did look to see what he was doing, he was focused on drinking the milk while following my moves with the egg and spatula. And he was drinking the milk fast! Before I knew it, he had finished half, then a few minutes later, almost the entire amount that I had poured (~ 7 oz). I was so ecstatic because for the past month or so, he had pretty much stopped drinking formula (and then regular milk as well). In the end, he drank about 6 oz in the morning. Then for lunch, I stirred about 3 oz milk with rice cereal, which he happily ate up (as long as I gave him something to grab as well like pieces of watermelon or mango). And at 3pm (after a nap and 4th visit to Happy Hollow park & zoo), he had a serving of vanilla yogurt for babies. And for dinner, he had about 1.5 egg and silken tofu steamed together (carrots and sweet potato on the side), so he basically had about 20-oz milk-equivalent, so plenty of calcium for once. This morning, he had about 4.5 oz of milk, so not a bad start either.
Last night after his bath at around 8:30 pm, he didn't seem too sleepy yet but was not very attentive to the book we were going through. After about 10 minutes, he crawled to the side of the crib and touched it, almost like he was signaling that he wanted to go in. This was the firs time he had ever done that and I wasn't entirely sure what to do. But since he had been sleeping so well lately, I thought I would try putting him in the crib and see what he does. If he started crying, I would just take him out and hold him a while till he calmed down and slept. I picked him up and slowly put him into the crib. He did not cry even though he was wide awake. He did not get up and stand holding on to the crib panel either. He was on his tummy or side, one thumb in the mouth, and moving around the crib as if he was looking for a comfortable position. He did not fall asleep rightaway. I didn't give him much attention either, but instead I opened a book (herbivore mammals) and started reading on the rocking chair. He tossed and turned for quite a while, I was afraid he would get up, but he didn't! After about 10 minutes, he finally stopped moving about and fell asleep. I gave it another few minutes and then put a blanket on him and turned out the light. Hopefully this will become the norm and not just an aberration.
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