4 is the Magic Number

Or I guess around 3.75

Hudson is going to be 4 months old on Sunday

Holy cliche moment of "this is going way too fast"

BUT...

at this stage in his life I have realized that I am not an infant person.

Now, don't go thinking I'm a terrible mom and hated my baby for the first 3 months of his life.

I loved him beyond words.

I cried when he cried, I hurt when he hurt, I never wanted him out of my sight.

But the smiles and the laughs that my little booger is spitting out at me make this whole parenting thing so much more rewarding and so much more FUN!

I feel like I've figured out how my baby's little brain ticks.

Which has made my life so much easier and less stressful.

He sleeps in his crib.

Not like a champ by any means.

When the tears start rolling a quick insertion of the paci or some food do just the trick.

As I'm writing this blog, he's in bed at...that's right 7:30.

All fresh, clean, massaged, and relaxed.

If only I were put to bed that way every night...Ethan

As for my previous posts about sleep.

My only advice for new moms is Screw the Professionals.

They tell you not to nurse your baby to sleep, not to rock them to sleep, not to put them to sleep with a paci, not to, not to, not to....

Well, if you listen to them (many of them contradicting one another) you are just going to have an overtired, frustrated, beyond the point of sleep baby.

And that just makes even his/her awake time no fun!

Do whatever it takes to get them to nap/sleep.

And in due time, they will grow and need less of these "crutches" to help themselves sleep.

Everything takes time and multiple attempts before they get it right.

Don't stress.

I thought I'd also share my New Year's Resolution? with you all.

I have noticed an article floating around Facebook about Moms bullying Moms.

I'd kind of like to extend that to just women in general.

For some reason we were almost predisposed to a world of competition between our own kind.

It's really silly when you think of it.

We judge one mom for working, for being a SAHM, for formula feeding, etc.

We judge other women on their looks, their jobs, their husbands jobs, etc.

It makes for a really miserable world.

And I was/am guilty for it.

So I'm cutting the bull shit.

I want to open myself up to the possibility of new friendships.

I want to hear, learn, and understand, with an open mind, the different parenting techniques we all have.

I don't want to look back and think that my words could have hurt someone else.

I don't want to be the source of or a part of any drama.

Because I don't want my children to be led by that type of example.

2014 is all about the love.