Busy week! Why is it that a 4-day workweek following a holiday seems so much longer than a typical 5-day workweek?

It appears that the bottle strike is over....for now. Tyler began taking his bottles again at daycare as if nothing had happened. And he's been chugging those bottles. I think we might be getting to a point where we need to increase his bottle intake. He's quite the growing boy!

We had dinner this week with Uncle Kevin, who was working at MCV for a couple of days. It was great to be able to spend some time with him. We also had dinner with Aunt Lala & Uncle J Dub (that's Laura & Matt to the rest of the world) for Laura's birthday. Tyler didn't stay up for much of these two visits. He gets pretty darned cranky if you try to keep him up past his 7:00 bedtime. And speaking of that, we have had two really amazing nights here. Friday night he went to bed at 7:30 and slept until 4:30!!!! I never thought that this would last, but last night he was in bed before 7:00 and slept until 5:30!!!! We were floored! Now the downside of this little feat is that it is Sunday (you know, the day of rest) and the 3 of us were up and about by 6:00. Oh well. I'd rather be up for the day at 5:30 after having an night of uninterrupted sleep then wake up in the middle of the night and have to go back to sleep (which I have a hard time doing after a feeding). We hope that this trend continues!

In more sleep news, we didn't move Tyler to his room this weekend. We realized that we had left our monitor's battery charger at Dad's house last weekend. And Tyler's room is in the back of the house. We weren't quite comfortable with having him sleep in there without the monitor. So Dad will be visiting this week (he's working up here for a few days) and we'll get the charger back then. We hope to try to move him into his room next weekend. But he did nap in his crib for the first time this weekend while we were doing chores upstairs. He napped well in there, for it being the first time. It gives us hope that the move will be an easy one.