Little sickies

Paige's friends are sick, so when she suddenly got a fever we assumed she was also sick. This is yet to be determined. She seems to be teething as well, which can cause a fever, so who knows. Friday was spent with Paige napping, lying on the couch, and then sitting with me and watching american idol, and some disney show. She just wanted to be held. She was better yesterday, but seemed a bit warm for an hour or so. She has also been waking up at night quite frequently. I took the bumper pads out of her bed since she was ripping them off before her nap. It was silly to keep taking them off and putting them back on. But since then she has been waking up when her soothers fall out, or when her head hits the side. Remember I put them in her crib in the first place to avoid all of those problems? Since it has been about 10 months since those things went in, I wasn't sure if she needed them any more, but clearly she does. I am hesitant to put them back in though since she needs to learn to problem solve by herself...like move herself away from the side, snuggle under her blankets, etc. Now she just cries until I come in to fix her problem. Until she can do these things, though, I think we're looking at some long nights. Last night she was up 4 times. And she never wakes up in the night normally. I might put them back in to get some sleep tonight. Mike and I are getting sick too, so sleep would be good.

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I have been trying to finish Paige's scrapbook, but I have realized I'm more into blogging and picture taking than scrapbooking. In my scrapbooking magazine I see such lovely pages that I can't even come close to producing. And scrapbooking is expensive if you're not going to really put in 100% effort. I'm still only at "getting the baby room ready" stage in my book. I think it is easier to scrapbook vacation pictures--there's less pressure.

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Paige and Dora: I just wanted to point out that although Paige really likes Dora, by no means does she sit in front of the tv all day. Every day she will watch 1 or sometimes 2 episodes of Dora, and no other tv. So that's only 30 mins average. I thought I would mention this since there seems to be a lot of articles lately about television watching and babies. In the 1 article it says that some babies spend 40% of their day watching tv!!?? I guess if the parents watch tv while the baby was present. I used to do this when Paige was younger--partially watch something while playing with her. Even if I wanted to do this now she wouldn't let me--"No people?" she says if I turn the tv on. Now we just listen to the music channels...mix it up a bit...little treehouse, little classical, whatever kind of mood we're in. I don't think she likes seeing real people talk to the camera. Only when she wasn't feeling good the other day did she want to just veg in front of American Idol. Since we get our Dora from the "On Demand" feature on our tv, it's the same 15 or so episodes. Now Paige can name a couple of her favourites. She asks for the "mambo" or "star pocket" episodes. And she yelled out her first word in Spanish yesterday when Dora told her to...whatever the word for "jump" is (salta??)

Oh--another thing from the article I read was that there is a channel called "baby tv" (!!??--brutal)

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So embarrasing.....I have been getting an extreme eye twitch lately, and I can't even feel it. This means I could be anywhere and my eye is twitching out of control and I DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT!! This used to happen when I was at work and I was stressed. I'm not stressed, am I?? I don't think so...maybe about this scrapbooking....