Julia Misura

Author: Gabriel Misura

  • All the stairs

    Today you climbed up all of the stairs by yourself. I walked behind you to make sure you were safe, but you got all the way to the top without any help from me.

  • bedtime with daddy

    so, in prep for mom’s trip, I put you to bed, yesterday and today.

    yesterday was a little rough, but tonight was pretty smooth. you were crying as I put on your pjs, and when I closed the blinds, etc. I sat down in the chair and you were crying and pointing at the door, but you stopped, looked at me and laid on my shoulder. I stayed for 2-3 songs and put you in your crib. you didn’t even cry, just laid down and went to sleep. you didn’t even grab a animal to hug.

  • Falling asleep with Daddy

    Tonight, was the first time in a LONG time you fell asleep with me.

    Granted, you were super tired from all of the zoo activities.
    I walked with you on the San Antonio river walk while people finished their dinner and you actually fell asleep on my shoulder while I held you in my arms.

    I was even able to put you into the carseat with very little complaints and drove all the way home.

    (Going to bed was quite difficult though).

  • New Schedule For Daddy

    Today, I decided to get up early (when you woke up at 7am) and go to work early (arrived at 8:30-ish) so I could come home early (4pm) and play with you (we played and played till 6pm when I fed you dinner).

    The goal is to disassociate me with going to bed because you used to cry when I got home around your dinner time because you anticipated I would be giving you a bath right before putting you to bed (though, mom is the one who really puts you to bed. since you just cry for me).

  • Where’s your feet daddy?

    Today, I decided to wear pants *gasp* and shoes *gasp* for the first time…probably since May.
    When I got home, you pointed at my shoes and touched them, wondering where my feet/toes were.

  • CIO Night 4

    Similar to last night, you woke up around 11:50pm, make a little bit of noise for a couple minutes and slept until you made tiny noises at 6:30 and we came into your room.

    Waking up that early caused you to need a nap pretty early.

  • The little things

    We want you to be independent, but its times like these I’ll cherish:

    When you approach the stairs (on the back porch) or uneven pavement, you stop, put your hands up to reach for me and wait till I’m there so you can hold my fingers to safely go forward. So cute.

  • CIO Night 3

    Put you to bed at 8pm, you made a slight noise at 11:47pm, and slept till 7am. YEAH!

    We still woke up in the night for no reason, but it is sure nice to think we can get 7 hours of sleep.

  • CIO Night 2

    Put you in bed around 9pm. You slept until 1:30-ish, made very little noise and went back to sleep, or maybe you were partially awake (on and off) till around 2:30am, then you slept until 6:30am. Didn’t seem like you were going to fall back asleep completely so we got you up at 7am. Seems to be working pretty well.

  • CIO

    So, even though we said we’d never do it, we decided we had to.

    You started crying at 10:15pm, stopped around 10:24pm.
    Then a tiny more at 10:33pm for probably less than a minute.
    Some more at 10:38pm

    That was surprisingly less painful that we expected. Very happy too because we hate letting you cry (hence why we waited SO LONG to try this method, but nothing else was working).

    I hope you still love us.

    Overnight you woke up at 12:40-something, 1:45-ish, 4:45-ish and 7:45am.
    However, I just connected the clock we were using and it was still set to Pacific time (though, I of course set the time correctly, it communicated with the satellites and adjusted itself), so we’re not sure which of those numbers are PST or CST.