All About Lucas

Most of our blog posts focus on Levi, so I thought I would write a little about our other son.  I do feel bad for him in a way.  Levi had our full attention for the first couple years of his life, but Lucas has to fight for it.  I feel like he has grown up so much faster than Levi.  A lot of people are telling us they are starting to look more alike, but I still don't see it.

  

 Both kids around 9 months old.  I can't tell they are brothers, can you?

Lucas is developing faster than Levi did.  Probably because he sees his older brother doing things and he wants to keep up with him.  Within the last few weeks, Lucas has started crawling, pulling himself up, "cruising" along the edge of tables/furniture, babbling ("mama" and "baba"), waving, and he's cut 4 teeth.  He's done all of those things before Levi did.  

One area where he is lagging behind Levi is the sleeping department.  Levi was a roller coaster with his sleep patterns.  He would go a couple months of sleeping good, have a rough couple months, sleep good a couple months, etc.  Around February of last year he started sleeping great and we haven't had any issues since.  Lucas, on the other hand, has had a lot more issues with sleeping.  He started off great, even sleeping through the night for a month or so.  Then around 4 months he started waking up, and from then on he has woken up every single night...until the other night.  And there was never really any pattern to his sleep issues...waking up at different times, sometimes just once a night, sometimes 20+ times a night.  We've tried tylenol, feeding him, changing his diaper, rocking, etc.  But my genius wife had the brilliant idea last week that since his diaper was always soaked, why not try a night diaper?  So we tried it, and the sleeping has been much better this past week, and he's even slept all the way through the night from start to finish a couple of times.  Its nice to sleep.

Think they'll want to wear matching outfits when they're older?

Lucas and daddy having some fun together.

Lucas having the spotlight all to himself, for once.

The blog will returned to your normally scheduled programming next week with potty training updates (spoiler alert, its not going well), more pictures, and more of my random thoughts and lists.