Auffy Boys: November 2012

I feel like I haven't wrote forever about the boys, just my pregnancy, so here's what we've been up to in the past few months...

Cruz started Preschool in September and has loved it so much this year. He's really came out of his shell and isn't nearly as shy this year. He played soccer this fall and he now just started playing basketball for the first time.

I signed Levin up for Gym Ventures for the first time this fall. So every Wednesday morning while Cruz is at Preschool him and I go to the Y for his class. It's pretty laid back and they get to do some tumbling stuff, climb things, play with balls and jump on the trampoline. Levin loves it and it's nice to having something just him and I get to do together. Here's a picture of him on his first day!

We've had a lot of changes that all had to be done to get ready for baby Hudson to arrive. It started by Levin giving up his paci, which after cutting the tip off of it he gave that up pretty easily. Then we moved Levin into a big boy bed so Hudson would be able to use the crib. Levin did really well at first and then struggled for a couple weeks when he realized mom could just come lay in his bed with him at night if he cried. It was a tough few nights for this mom but after some "crying it out" he finally realized he has to go to sleep on his own and does really well.

The next change was as of this weekend Levin has officially moved into Cruz's room with him and they now share a room. We have another bedroom in the basement but I'm not ready to move Cruz down there nor do I think he's ready himself to move down there. They've been together two nights and so far it seems to be going good. The first night started by Levin crying which made Cruz cry so once I got them both settled down they fell asleep pretty easily. Then last night there was definitely no crying but lots of talking, laughing, jumping and singing. After about an hour I finally went in and told them it was time to be quiet and lay down. We never heard another peep and they were both out. We have the video monitor in there until Hudson gets here so it's kinda run to watch them on there. They have became such buds lately and I'm hoping them sharing a room will help even more with that.

O and I have to share something very exciting that has happened over the past two nights as well. Most of you know Cruz has been a thumb sucker since he's been able to find his thumb and put it in his mouth. Well the only time he sucks it is when he goes to sleep. And we've tried a lot of different things to get him to stop, bribing him with gifts, putting yucky stuff on it so it would taste bad and so on but nothing worked. He'd do good not falling asleep with it in his mouth but when he woke up in the middle of the night back it'd go in his mouth and he wouldn't even realize it. So as of Saturday night he's been wearing a glove to bed on that hand. Someone had suggested safety pinning it to his jammies but so far he's left it on so hopefully we won't have to do that. I've been checking on him right when he falls asleep, in the middle of the night (since I'm up several times going to the bathroom, the joys of pregnancy:) ) and then again in the morning right when he wakes up and the glove has always been on. I'm so proud of him! I'm hoping we can do this for awhile longer and then take it off and see how he does. Hopefully we can get this habit beat! We were just at the dentist and she said she wouldn't be surprised if he hasnt' lost a tooth when he comes back in 6 months so I knew we had to get this stopped before he started getting permanent teeth! Wish us luck!!!

I would also like to introduce you to our new family member that arrived this weekend that will be sticking around till Christmas. Cruz named him Dash and if you don't know what he is just google "Elf on the Shelf". We've been having a lot of fun with it but that will have to be a separate post some other time!

Anyways other then that life has been keeping us busy as always. Jake has 3 classes left to finish is masters and should have that done in March. He's excited to be done with school! I'm 29 weeks in my pregnancy and the 3rd trimester is starting to kick my butt. Luckily it's the holidays so hopefully the next several weeks will fly and Hudson will be here before we know it!