Sleeping like a baby..

Katharine, Christy and I were discussing yesterday about how we would define "sleeping like a baby" as a night of screaming, crying, and no sleep. But, I think that I have discovered where the old expression comes from. It is from you parents who were able to lay their babies down on their stomachs for the night!

Paige has been rolling herself onto her stomach to sleep for the last 3 times she has slept...enough that I would assume it is her new "thing". And she has consequentially "Slept like a baby". She woke up once last night randomly at 1:45 so I gave her her soother. She woke up another time with a loud cry, and I thought, "no for the love of God, I'm too tired", but then she made some talking noises and then silence. I am pretty sure that she turned on to her stomach at that moment. It is now 8:30 am and she is still sound asleep.

Also, she has been wearing massive diapers at night to hold everything in! haha.

Fingers crossed--mike is sick and now I am sick..we DO NOT want Paige to get sick, especially before Christmas....

I'll post some pictures later when I figure out this computer.....

Snowed in....

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.

big girl time

On a better note, I was able to feed her a bit of cereal, and it was her first time in the high chair! She looks so small!

horrific sleep..

Last night she woke up at LEAST once an hour until 6:00am. Mike had even given her tyelenol before bed to see if that would help. I fed her at 1:30 even though I knew she wasn't that hungry just so I would know she was fed. That way when she continued to wake up after that, I could rule out hunger! Now it is 8:30am and she hasn't eaten since 1:30, so it is obvious she COULD make it through the night. So WHAT'S THE PROBLEM!!?? I think I am going to ask the doctor..

I was wrong..

....last night was a horrible sleep again. Too tired to write.

Snowmen fall from heaven unassembled...

I saw that saying at Hallmark and thought it was cute...

Paige is getting better at standing for longer periods of time while holding onto something. She stood like this for about a minute.

Her sleeps have been a bit better too (although last night was not so good..). She could even be classified as "sleeping through the night" a few more times (waking up about 7 hours after going to sleep).

Because she is sleeping better at night, she has been sleeping less during the day. Whereas she used to have a short nap in the morning and dinnertime, and one large nap in the afternoon, she now has 4 small naps. It makes it harder to get anything done. It was confusing too, because she started doing this suddenly, and I would keep trying to put her back to sleep when she would wake up, only to find her smiling back at me from her crib, wide awake. I feel that she can't be bothered to sleep when she is so interested in rolling over and grabbing at everything! She loves grabbing the phone, the remote, and the computer...I guess she sees us using these things a lot. She doesn't seem at all interested in sitting up yet. I would have thought she would already been sitting since she has been rolling for 4 weeks already. When I make her sit up, she swings her legs around so she can crash onto her tummy.

Stomach sleeper.

I knew something was up! When she had those few days of crap sleep I would often find her crying on her stomach and I would flip her over. Maybe she was just getting used to sleeping on her stomach, because I found her on her stomach this morning when she first woke up! Just to make sure, I felt her back and it was regular temperature, but her tummy was all warm and kind of sweaty from lying on it for a long time (not to mention that the wetness in her diaper was concentrated in the front..hah). She puts her arms up by her head, and turns her head to the side. I took that photo just as I went in her room this morning when she started making her new little happy screaming noises she does; they are little shrill AHH AHH AHH noises. OH--the past 2 nights she has only woken up once...our little girl is back!!

Recent Photos...

She "slept" through the night??

Last night we tried a different approach. I noticed that the Christmas wreaths we have on our front doors make really loud banging noises in the wind. Hopefully enough that they were causing her to wake up?

At any rate, last night she cried at 11:00 something, 1:30, and 2:30. Mike dealt with her at 11:00, so not sure what that was all about. But when I saw her, she had the strange angry cry again, and then calmed right down and fell asleep once I gave her her soother. Not sure why she suddenly needs her soother so badly in the night that she has to cry out with such anger! It is the type of cry you would expect if someone had popped it out of her mouth on purpose, trying to make her mad.

After 2:30 she didn't wake up again till 7:30. So I never had to feed her in the night. So she almost made it through the night...maybe the wreaths were part of the problem?

Oh! 2 Sundays ago, she slept from 9:30pm till 8:00am!! That was crazy, but she was really sick and we had given her cold medicine, so it doesn't really count.

We are going CRAZY!

For the past 3 nights, Paige has woken up at least once an hour. Very strange. Mike was away last week and she was sleeping fine for the most part. She was waking up at 12:00-12:30ish every night consistently, but then not again until she ate around 2-3:00, and then not again till the morning. The past 3 nights now that he has been home, coincidentally, she has been waking up all the time. Usually when she has "cried" in the night in the past, it is really more like fussing, or talking noises. Sometimes now, she is actually crying with her eyes closed. As soon as we give her a soother though, she falls back asleep.

Is this teething?? What is going on? Can't take much more of this!! Should I give her tylenol before bed? She doesn't seem to be in pain during the day....