Crib Time

Look who slept in her crib for the first time last night!


She is going to bed around 7:30pm, nursing at 10pm, then sleeping till 4am. We do a "dreamfeed" at 6:30am when I get up, and then she usually sleeps till 8:30am or so.

Of course, all that is "usually." Last night she woke up screaming at 8:30pm, then slept till 3am, 6am, and woke up for good at 7:30am.

10pm to 6am is my long-term goal. Someday.

A couple more photos for your viewing pleasure . . .

Bathtime with Daddy


Snuggling with Mama

Visitors

We've been having fun with company in the last week or two!

Mama Rita and Papa Gene


Uncle Mike


Aunt Rene'


Honey


Nothing like holding a sleeping baby. :)

Nursery Woes

I am starting to dread Sundays just a little bit. Don't get me wrong, one of the highlights of my week has always been Sunday worship - time to join together with other believers to magnify the name of the Lord, study together, and be renewed in spirit.

But I just cannot figure out how to help Annie through a Sunday. Her schedule gets so thrown off. I usually have to wake her up in the morning to get us to church on time, which is not an auspicious beginning, to say the least. I tried to go to Sunday School today and she made it through that hour, but lost it in between Sunday School and the service. I didn't even make it in to worship before the nursery director grabbed me. (And don't even get me started on what Sundays are like when I am singing with the worship team.)

Today when I got to the nursery Annie had big tears pouring down her little face and was screaming. She was screaming because she was exhausted and past nap time, but she will not nap in the church nursery. I get her to sleep in the nursing room and then the second I step out into the nursery she is WIDE AWAKE and has that look on her face that says NO WAY AM I GOING BACK TO SLEEP. She is well past the newborn phase of sleeping through everything. Lights and sound wake her up.

I just took her into service with me today. She was happy as a lark, but it is difficult for me to concentrate on the service when I'm trying to keep her quiet.

Once we get home she is off her rhythm. She doesn't nap well the rest of the day and is out of sorts.

Everyone keeps telling me that this will get easier as she grows, but I'm thinking she's going to be taking a morning nap for the next nine months or more . . . or at least I hope so!

Any suggestions for surviving Sundays with your little ones?

P.S. I think I'm figuring out what my mom meant when I asked her if I was an easy baby, and she said, "You were an easy baby for me." Annie is a happy baby for me and her Daddy and a few other people . . . but she can give others fits sometimes.

Househunting #5

Well, pending inspection, we have bought a house! Red brick with white trim, a big front porch, white picket fence, built in the 1920s. LOVE. Inside it has four bedrooms + office + sun room + enclosed sleeping porch that is heated and cooled. We can live in this house forever!

Next week we'll return to our regularly scheduled programming of Annie pictures. :)

Househunting #4

Yesterday afternoon the Gent and I went to look at a house that just came on the market. It was listed a few months ago when we were looking online, but when we started looking in person the owner had taken it off the market. They put it back up for sale earlier this week and we were excited to look at it. It seems perfect - beautiful brick home in a historic neighborhood, all the space we need for the 5+ kids we're thinking of having, basement, hardwood floors, fireplaces, front porch, a new roof, new HVAC, new hot water heater, etc. We're negotiating on price now, but it seems like this could be the one!

Saturday Tricks

On Saturdays we usually put Annie in bed with us when she wakes up around 8 or so. We snuggle and watch HGTV. This morning she just wanted to practice all her new tricks! Talking, bringing her hands together, standing and sitting with our help.

Jammies

She was having so much fun playing in her jammies, I couldn't resist snapping some pictures of those smiles before we got dressed (in 3-6 month clothes now)!