Huxey Sleepover

Gram and Huxey had a sleepover this week.  I love spending a block of time with Huxey because I really get to see his full personality in the 24 hours I have him.  He is a sweet, lovable and funny baby who can give a smirk like no ones business;)

Huxey was really great the entire sleepover...except when it came time to go to bed in the crib.  There are two challenges lately with Huxey.  A crib aversion, and a nap aversion, which hopefully both will be rectified by mid January when Gram starts taking care of Huxey on a regular basis.

Our family use to call Otto "no nap Ot," and I believe we need to come up with a catchy name like that for Huxey as well.  Of course, the female adults in the family are 100% to blame because we love holding those babies when they are little.  We have taught them that being held is totally awesome, and we have nothing else we need to do.  Well,  Huxey is a good learner, and has decided that (A) holding for naps is perfectly acceptable at 5 months and actually preferred.  And (B) It's dark in the room with the crib at night, so he'd rather again (A) be held while he sleeps.

Fortunately for Momma, she has started to see progress in the crib sleeping while in his own room,  Gram not so much.  So Huxey and Gram and Grandpa had a nice 10 hour sleep in our king size bed from 9pm-7am.  There was plenty of space, so why not! Hey, there are worse things I could be doing, right??

We had a good long snuggle fest the next day and Huxey spent a lot of time standing, and is becoming a good sitter on his own with only moments of "tower of pisa" here and there.  He is teething like crazy and fingers are in mouth while talking and talking.  Just a great big 5+ month old of love and fun!  Gram's so blessed:)