Crib tent: keep cats out of crib

Thanks to the excellent idea from one of my commenters, we have ordered this crib tent from Walmart.com in hopes that we can put it on Little Sir's crib and start actually using his own crib without worrying about the cat jumping into the crib with him in the middle of the night and suffocating him because she sees him as a convenient heating pad. It gave me a little pain to pay $62 for this thing, but I think it's really our only way of being 100% sure the cat can't get in, and we can leave Little Sir's bedroom door open to allow air to circulate.

Little Sir just gets louder and louder as he sleeps - he grunts and cries in his sleep. It's very loud when he is there in the bassinet beside our bed, I can't sleep while he is sleeping when he makes that much noise. This morning around 5 AM I put him in his crib in his room so I could get a bit more sleep. I just went ahead and closed his door to keep the cats out for now.

At first I had thought it was a little extravagant to buy a video monitor instead of a traditional monitor, but now I am loving it. I could lay in bed in our room and just click on the video to see if he was actually awake or if he was just making noises in his sleep. It has great night vision as well. I would highly recommend it - Summer Infant Day & Night Handheld Color Video Monitor.

Yesterday Little Sir had his hearing test and passed just fine! It was interesting the way they did it, they just put a tiny thing in his ear while he is asleep and it uses echoes to determine if the ears are working the way they should. It was quick and painless.

Today the plan is for me to go to the grocery store while mom is here to watch Little Sir. I'd also like to see if I can get my hairdresser to allow me to come in already shampoo'ed so that I could get a haircut in under 2 hours (the max time Little Sir can go between feedings).

Tomorrow is our 2 week pediatric appointment, hopefully he is still on track for everything!