Week Twenty One

My oh my how quickly you are growing and changing.  Getting you to take a nap has become really hard for me, your Dad has this process that involves rocking, swaddling your arms and legs in separate blankets, and tapping your chest which works 90% of the time for him, but rarely anyone else.  I have started to research sleep training and I have 2 books I am reading and am listening to an audio book while I pump at work.  So many different opinions about how to get you to sleep better on your own without all the stuff your Dad uses.  I am having some information over load, but I know that we need to change something since you need more sleep and we need a method that more that just your Dad can use!

One of the consistent recommendations regardless of method/sleeping philosophy is to have a consistent night time routine.  So we have started to give you a bath every night and then a baby massage.  You LOVE bath time, you splash the water and grab the turtle thermometer and just have a grand old time.  It is one of those special times we get to share every day even if I am working.  I wish that I did not have to be gone such long hours.  I miss you so much and I am missing out on so much.  Finding that balance of work and being your Mama is hard.  Just know that even if I am not here I am thinking about you and loving you with my whole heart.

Week Twenty

I am already getting behind again.  Silly Mama, trying to do too much.  This week was so much fun, you started making this strange noise that I call insect talk.  I thought that it might be something called Razzing, but no it is your own made up baby language.  You really love it when I do it too, which sounds really strange when people see us.  It sounds like the insectoid Xindi on Enterprise.  People can look all they want it makes you so happy when we "talk" like this.  You have also really started giggling, before you would laugh silently, but now actual giggles come out.  It is so cute.

Week Nineteen

You have been squealing and laughing your head off this week.  The laughing especially at your Dad.  I have to say as wonderful as it is to you you do it, it also breaks my heart a little since so much of it is for your Dad.  Being at work 40+ hours a week is so hard, we have such little time together and you are really starting to become a Daddy's girl.  I am just going to keep trying to make our time together special ad know that you love me too!

We also just started to use your Bumbo seat, which you like for short periods of time.

Napping has started to be a little issue again.  The Happiest Baby on the Block Techniques are losing their effectiveness (as we knew they would around now) and swaddling you is making us nervous.  You keep rolling when waking up and then ending up face down by your crib rails which seems dangerous.  I have been researching what to do next and will be buying "The No Cry Sleep Solution."  Darling you keep growing and changing and are just such an amazing person, but I can't help but miss the little baby that you were just a few short months ago.