Sleeping alone

I wanted to share a few pictures of Jake’s room. Jake now has two beds in his room, one is his old bed (left) which he falls out of it sometimes in the middle of the night because the rail is very low; the other one he just received last week through the Care at Home Program from New York State (below). This bed is like a big crib where you can raise and lower the rail whenever necessary; you can also raise or lower the head or the foot of the bed. As much as I would like Jake to sleep on the regular twin bed, the new bed is safer for him at the moment.

The other major milestone we achieved since Jake got his new bed is that Jake now sleeps by himself in his own room. I think that was probably my major milestone rather than Jake’s because he didn’t have any problem sleeping by himself, I had the problem letting him sleep by himself, after all, his bed was next to ours for the past five years. Since he got his new bed, I figured it was time for me to move out of his room, which was where I had been sleeping since we moved into the new house.

My mom is leaving the country for 3 months, she said by the time she comes back, Jake will be heavier and taller. She is probably right. We are facing a new issue which hasn’t been an issue up until now, and that is Jake is almost too big to fit into the shopping carts in the supermarket, or target, etc. Going out shopping with Jake hasn’t been hard since he has very good head and upper body control, we just pop him into the shopping carts and off we go around the stores. But now he is getting too tall and too big for those carts so what are we suppose to use to transport him inside the stores? I can’t push his stroller and the shopping cart at the same time!? This is just one problem and I know that more and more problems will surface as Jake gets older and bigger. God I pray for the strength and the courage to face those problems.