Friday, October 9th, day 276

Luca and his friend Francesca who is 5 weeks older than him! She is also WAY more mobile than him, but they have a great time together!

Luca is almost crawling - he can crawl now but prefers his faster belly sliding! He stands up on anything and everything - from bookshelves to garbage cans!!! He's keeping us busy!

Daycare is going really well. On average he is staying there from about 8:30 to 1:30. He doesn't seem to cry there except when he's dealing with teeth pain - which he has been a lot lately. Since he already has all 8 front teeth, he's getting either eye teeth or molars next and they are a lot more painful. I've been slightly worried about him as he's had a day or two of real crankyness and borderline fever from it. He still has a bit of a cough from his daycare colds as well. Really he's amazingly tough!

Fabien and I have been working on helping Luca learn how to sleep through the night. With the colds and teeth pain it's hard for me to stick to the rules - which are basically let him cry it out (within reason). Over the last week, he has been going to bed at around 8pm and getting up at 5:30ish but wanting another nap about an hour later. We can hear him wake up one or two times through the night and he usually plays and stands in his crib. He cries for a while but it's not an "I'm desperate" cry. He always wakes up smiling!

In this video you can see him playing with Francesca which was super cute! My favourite part his Luca's new found talent in the car . . .