Baby diary: 44 weeks

 Or, 10 months 4 days. Daycare is going well for Alan: no more crying, and he is napping in the afternoons! Though, now he's going to be off schedule for more than a month as we travel. His runny nose and cough are also dragging on and on. Other than that, I'd say it's been an uneventful week (with the next fussy period on the horizon). I can't even think of anything to add, other than that we had A. and her mom over on Sunday and they played very happily. Indian summer so I took him out in the stroller that afternoon, possibly for the last time this year, and we ended up at a mini-Oktoberfest next to Atwater Market. Summer outings will be fun next year, I think, once Alan's able to toddle around by himself.

I do wonder if we'll ever manage to reset Alan's bedtime earlier than 9pm. His dinner/bath routine starts around 6:30pm, but until he has his last feed at 8:30ish he simply won't go down; putting him to sleep earlier just means he wakes up again and stays awake until the ungodly hour of, say, 10:30pm, rolling around on the couch and biting me for attention. Part of why I go through so many movies; at least for the time being I can still watch horrible R-rated David Fincher murderstuff, as Alan doesn't parse scary movies well enough to be frightened by them. As the days get shorter he also sleeps in naturally until dawn, well past 7am.