Yesterday was a one nap day. Not because I scheduled it like that...
William had one nap, because he refused to take his second nap of the day. He woke from his first nap at 9:30 am (he gets up at 5 or 5:30 am). From 9:30 am to 5:30 pm he was awake. He was a pretty good sport until about 5 pm when he completely broke down into a part screaming / part gasping fit. He was in his crib for about 2 -3 hours playing.
Today we are on track for another one nap day... Right now he is playing in his crib with a few bits of whining here and there. He has been doing this for about 1 hour. He refuses me to rock him to sleep, which usually works when he is too tired to fall asleep on his own.
So when does a baby go from two to one nap a day?? I think it is too early for him, but his second nap of the day has become a shorter nap - 30 minutes or so. Or not at all - yesterday. From what I have read this is one of the first signs that William might be beginning the transition. I have also read that this transition can take a few months and during the transition he will go from 2 naps to 1 nap to 2 naps, etc. When he made the transition from 3 naps to 2 naps I recall (really was it that long ago that "I recall"?) the back and forth for a few months till he was on a solid 2 naps a day schedule.
I love my two one and a half hour long naps. I can get things done around the house, plus I can be a little bit more flexible. We will see. I will try a one nap day and see what happens. Another option is to move around the 2 naps a day schedule...
We will see.
And he finally sleeps - two naps today! Thank goodness!!! Or maybe not... I spoke too soon!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Chick then... Rooster? or Hen?
My big black roosters are growing up fast and everyone is crowing in the hen house (um... the rooster house). Each rooster has his own crow and to tell you the true I am fully enjoying hearing them through out the day.
The Rhode Island Red (Cook #2) was starting to looking like it might be a rooster - the comb was huge and starting to flop over and her beard was a lot bigger than Cooks... Being my escape artist, the darn thing kept getting into the other area, so I decided to make an area for just this hen or rooster.
Last week I headed out to the hen house to check on everyone and grab the eggs for the day. I was in the process of grabbing some food for everyone when in the corner of my eye I saw a TON of eggs! 7 to be exact! I just stood there pretty dumb founded until I realized that my little Cook #2 was a Hen - Yippee!!! And she laid 7 eggs in 24 hours!!! She had made a nest in the bail of straw, which is in her area. I felt like I could pick her up and hug her, but I wasn't in the mood for running around trying to grab her, so I wait till she was roosting later that night.
Ever since that day, she has laid at least an egg a day (sometimes 2!) - even better than Singer. Here is the one I found yesterday and here is my new producer:
Now for a name... Stay tuned.
The Rhode Island Red (Cook #2) was starting to looking like it might be a rooster - the comb was huge and starting to flop over and her beard was a lot bigger than Cooks... Being my escape artist, the darn thing kept getting into the other area, so I decided to make an area for just this hen or rooster.
Last week I headed out to the hen house to check on everyone and grab the eggs for the day. I was in the process of grabbing some food for everyone when in the corner of my eye I saw a TON of eggs! 7 to be exact! I just stood there pretty dumb founded until I realized that my little Cook #2 was a Hen - Yippee!!! And she laid 7 eggs in 24 hours!!! She had made a nest in the bail of straw, which is in her area. I felt like I could pick her up and hug her, but I wasn't in the mood for running around trying to grab her, so I wait till she was roosting later that night.
Ever since that day, she has laid at least an egg a day (sometimes 2!) - even better than Singer. Here is the one I found yesterday and here is my new producer:
Now for a name... Stay tuned.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
A Bowl of Fun
Where is William?
There you are!
Where might William be?
There he is!
William, where did you go???
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| Here I am silly mama! I have been here the whole time! |
It is amazing to me that we could play this game fifty million times a day and he just doesn't get sick of it!!!
And he could play it with anything, a corner of a wall, his Tag, a small block, a book... The list goes on and on.
I love the joy a child has for the simplest things!
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Organizing a Messy Room
Remember my "Storage Room"?
Well I have been moving along with my list everyday. I realized while I was clearing everything that I work on a system. So I broke down my organizing into phases for this room:
Phase One:
Start and get organized... I began with going through all of my books. I find that if I am delaying something it most likely means it is going to take a lot of time, which is hard to come by with a small child of 10 months. Naps and when he went to bed was my only time to get my first major step done. I completed it in 3 naps - 1 and a half days! I was shocked and on a rolled, so I organized the room into do to tasks and wrote a list of 30 things to do. I took all my books to Village Books in Bellingham, WA and I got a pretty hefty credit to spend there. 1st Phase done - Yippee!
Phase Two:
Complete your to do list. Most of the items are small, some I need help with from my husband and there are a few which involve time. Going through photos is the biggest one and I am almost done! I have completed about 5 small ones. And in the process of completed a few others. This weekend I have my husband scheduled to follow me around with all of his tools in tow to complete a few tasks (I love you my sweet husband!). There is something so satisfying when marking a check next to an item on my to do list, especially when I mark it right before William wakes from his nap.
Phase Three:
Make the room your own. This one I have been kind of going along and doing this in small areas, but at the end of Phase Two, I will have a pretty open room (at least in front of the window). We have lots of ideas, but we are going to wait till is it done to get started on Phase Three.
Well I have been moving along with my list everyday. I realized while I was clearing everything that I work on a system. So I broke down my organizing into phases for this room:
Phase One:
Start and get organized... I began with going through all of my books. I find that if I am delaying something it most likely means it is going to take a lot of time, which is hard to come by with a small child of 10 months. Naps and when he went to bed was my only time to get my first major step done. I completed it in 3 naps - 1 and a half days! I was shocked and on a rolled, so I organized the room into do to tasks and wrote a list of 30 things to do. I took all my books to Village Books in Bellingham, WA and I got a pretty hefty credit to spend there. 1st Phase done - Yippee!
Phase Two:
Complete your to do list. Most of the items are small, some I need help with from my husband and there are a few which involve time. Going through photos is the biggest one and I am almost done! I have completed about 5 small ones. And in the process of completed a few others. This weekend I have my husband scheduled to follow me around with all of his tools in tow to complete a few tasks (I love you my sweet husband!). There is something so satisfying when marking a check next to an item on my to do list, especially when I mark it right before William wakes from his nap.
Phase Three:
Make the room your own. This one I have been kind of going along and doing this in small areas, but at the end of Phase Two, I will have a pretty open room (at least in front of the window). We have lots of ideas, but we are going to wait till is it done to get started on Phase Three.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Too Many Roosters in the Hen House
A few Sundays ago, my husband came into the house after putting up a new roost in our chicken house saying, "Well I found out who is crowing in the hen house..."
Lets back it up a moment. Last year I started out with 6 chicks (2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Barred Rocks, and 2 Buffed Orpingtons). We adopted a Rhode Island Red Rooster from my father-in-law and we were set, until the birds of prey and coyotes moved into the hen's 2 acre area during the winter. We lost 3 chickens in a span of 3 months, so I decided to get more chickens to replace the ones we had lost. In the end I ended up with 2 Jersey Black Giants, 2 Golden Wyandottes and 2 Rhode Island Red hens. We also had one "successful" hatching at the ranch - successful meaning it hatched, but the poor thing has a bent neck and toes. We sexed him - a rooster - another rooster... So we think if we did it right.
My old flock and new flock were introduced on the 15th of Aug. The transition went very well, but I do have some very distinct cliques:
The only one who has been interested in hanging out with Pros is The Lone Rider. I have found out that she loves the old place which she was in before the chicken house, so she has found every possible way to get to that location - very determined this one is.
The Misfits haven't gone outside or gotten off the ground. The Killer New Hens are fabulous, they have taken to the roost and 2 of them have each laid an egg.
A few weeks ago, we were out in the back field and we all heard a crow that was not our RIR rooster. I was a tad startled and went to the chicken house to find out who it was. Of course nobody crowed when I went in there. For the next few weeks we heard this great crow - a crow that sounded half like a turkey. We were able to determine that it was definitely coming from our chicken house.
Last weekend I was determined to get a new roost up for the chickens. The Jersey Giants were not interested in the current roost. My wonderful husband who helps me out with a big smile on his face went to put up the roast, came back with a shocked face and told me he figured out who has been crowing and it wasn't the rooster who was hatched here.
"It was one of your big black hens - uh actually roosters."
I stared at him in disbelief. "The Jersey Giants? One of them? Which one?" As he is telling me the story I am thinking to myself well if one is a Rooster then the other one is too - they look the both look the same!!
After waiting a few days, sure enough one of my two Jersey Giants crowed while I was feeding them. I started looking at all of the other new hens and realized I might just have another one. My Lone Ranger is looking a little like our RIR did when he was a little guy...
So far I have 3 roosters, possible 2 (one RIR and the other is Scrappy). We determined we will wait till the spring to find out what we will do with all of our roosters. Right now they are living just fine together, so we will see and I will update you all.
I think my hen house is turning into a rooster house.
Lets back it up a moment. Last year I started out with 6 chicks (2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Barred Rocks, and 2 Buffed Orpingtons). We adopted a Rhode Island Red Rooster from my father-in-law and we were set, until the birds of prey and coyotes moved into the hen's 2 acre area during the winter. We lost 3 chickens in a span of 3 months, so I decided to get more chickens to replace the ones we had lost. In the end I ended up with 2 Jersey Black Giants, 2 Golden Wyandottes and 2 Rhode Island Red hens. We also had one "successful" hatching at the ranch - successful meaning it hatched, but the poor thing has a bent neck and toes. We sexed him - a rooster - another rooster... So we think if we did it right.
My old flock and new flock were introduced on the 15th of Aug. The transition went very well, but I do have some very distinct cliques:
- Clique #1 are the Pros - RIR Rooster, 2 Buffed Orpingtons (Singer and Boss) and Barred Rock (Cotton Ball)
- Clique #2 are the Killer New Hens - one Rhode Island Red (Cook) and 2 Golden Wyandottes (Goldie, and Sage)
- Clique #3 are the Misfits - 2 Jersey Black Giants and Scrappy (born at the ranch)
- Clique #4 is the Lone Rider - one Rhode Island Red - Cook #2 for right now...
The only one who has been interested in hanging out with Pros is The Lone Rider. I have found out that she loves the old place which she was in before the chicken house, so she has found every possible way to get to that location - very determined this one is.
The Misfits haven't gone outside or gotten off the ground. The Killer New Hens are fabulous, they have taken to the roost and 2 of them have each laid an egg.
A few weeks ago, we were out in the back field and we all heard a crow that was not our RIR rooster. I was a tad startled and went to the chicken house to find out who it was. Of course nobody crowed when I went in there. For the next few weeks we heard this great crow - a crow that sounded half like a turkey. We were able to determine that it was definitely coming from our chicken house.
Last weekend I was determined to get a new roost up for the chickens. The Jersey Giants were not interested in the current roost. My wonderful husband who helps me out with a big smile on his face went to put up the roast, came back with a shocked face and told me he figured out who has been crowing and it wasn't the rooster who was hatched here.
"It was one of your big black hens - uh actually roosters."
I stared at him in disbelief. "The Jersey Giants? One of them? Which one?" As he is telling me the story I am thinking to myself well if one is a Rooster then the other one is too - they look the both look the same!!
After waiting a few days, sure enough one of my two Jersey Giants crowed while I was feeding them. I started looking at all of the other new hens and realized I might just have another one. My Lone Ranger is looking a little like our RIR did when he was a little guy...
So far I have 3 roosters, possible 2 (one RIR and the other is Scrappy). We determined we will wait till the spring to find out what we will do with all of our roosters. Right now they are living just fine together, so we will see and I will update you all.
I think my hen house is turning into a rooster house.
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