What a mess out there! Mike shoveled 2 x yesterday and I shovelled once. This morning, he had to shovel again and help some neighbours unstick themselves from the snow, and I'm about to go shovel what the plow has left behind in the driveway!
Since we stayed home all weekend, we got a chance to spend a lot of time playing with Paige. Boy is she different than even last week! She really changed over the weekend! She now is randomly laughing all the time, squealing, and she is sitting up! She can't sit for very long yet before she keels over, but she has figured out how to sit up straight rather than hunched right over. I even have seen her get up the slightest bit on her hands and knees, but then she sort of scoots backwards.
She has also taken an interest in a variety of things that aren't toys, like the phone and the remote. She screams and lunges for them.
She really enjoys the highchair now too. We have to pile a ton of toys on the tray though because she just picks them up and chucks them off the side. We have been feeding her in the chair 2 x a day. She loves the rice cereal now. She opens up her mouth for it and everything! I have been making it with 1 slightly heaping tbsp of cereal and 3 tbsp of warmed formula. Eventually when she is used to that I can thicken it up. I just don't think she is hungry enough for anything more substantial. I also bought oatmeal and barley cereals to try in a few weeks.
OH! the greatest news of all! On Saturday night she slept uninterupted from 10:30 till 9:15. It was crazy!! And last night, she woke up twice, but never ate in the night. I am certain that the problem before was teething pain. Her cheeks were bright red last week when she wasn't sleeping. It seems to have settled down. Next time I see her cheeks like that, accompanied by gnawing on things and excessive drooling, I am certainly giving her tylenol before bed! My stupid problem, of course, is that when she slept through the night I only slept for about 4 hours...don't ask me why! It was really windy and scary sounding outside, which is probably part of it. But I really don't know what my problem is....story of my life.
I would post pictures but my laptop is on the fritz and I am on Mike's computer.
1 comment:
OH WOW, she really is a big girl now. I think it's safe to say that she doesn't need to eat in the middle of the night anymore. Great job with the cereal. Things will surely get easier as she begins to be able to amuse herself for longer period at a time. I think you are doing a great job. Too bad you have so much snow, as I sit here in my shorts....haha. Gramama
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