Big weekend, cranky baby blues.....

This has been a big couple of days for Joel! First, he turned 6 months old on Friday and had a marathon picture session at Sears. Friday night we decided to let him sleep rather than wake him up for his 12:00 midnight bottle, just to see how he would do. He slept from 10:00 until 7:00 the next morning! He did the same thing last night, but tonight is not looking good. He has been really, really cranky all day and nothing seems to make him happy. He is in his crib crying right now. He has to be exhausted, since he only took two naps for about half an hour apiece today. His eyes are heavy and he is having a hard time holding his head up, but he fights it so hard. Hopefully he falls asleep soon and is able to sleep for a while. At this point I wouldn't even mind feeding him again at midnight if he gets a little rest. We think he might be getting a tooth, but the Orajel did not seem to help matters. He may just be tired from all his activity lately. On Saturday morning he went to Abel and Jenny's house for a couple of hours while Rob and I went to Bryan to test drive a van (hated the van, by the way!). After we got home, I took him to Wauseon to go to the fair with Grandma, Aunt Lisa, and Uncle Jason. He was such a good boy! He was fascinated by all the activity, but seemed really jumpy with all the noise. I took him on the merry-go-round. It was funny because his legs were too short to straddle the horse so he had to ride side-saddle. He seemed to enjoy it, but the problem was that we had to wait a while for the ride to start and the ride right next to the merry-go-round made really loud, sudden noises that scared him. We got some cute pictures, though! He really couldn't see much at the baby animal barn, and he was getting hot and tired. He was too little to ride the live ponies...maybe next year. He fell asleep while I was holding him and actually stayed asleep when I laid him in the stroller. He was exhausted! Last night he slept from 10:00 until about 6:30 this morning. Oddly enough, he has been really sleepy today along with being grumpy. Tomorrow should be a nice quiet day, so maybe he can rest a little bit and regroup. More later, good night....