Babies of Oct-Dec /04

[lil'monkey]

Sarah- he is soooo cute!  Ahhh, wish I have a swimming pool to cool off!  Are you teaching him how to swim?  I want to take dd swimming but i'm afraid that she'll drink the water.  Anyone knows if too much chlorine is bad for them?

For two days straight, dd has been sleeping 11.5 hrs at night!  Yay!!!!  There are still 1-2 nightwakings but she quickly settles back to sleep.  naps are so so and I'm just so happy for that extra hr of sleep.  My dad tried to extend her nap the othr day by patting her but she quickly sat up and wanted to play.  I guess she has associated him with play only.

[MorganLeigh]

I have 8 pages to catch up on but Im back! My lovely computer blew up last week and we had to go get a new one.
Well just when DD was back on track BAM came a cold, wasnt too bad just need to be conforted at night, a lil pat/shh and she was good for an hour or two. The first night I had her sleep in her bouncy seat (wasnt easy) just bc I could tell she didnt want to lay down bc of her nose.
Off to read the 8 pages! Oh anyone have plans for the first bday party, Ideas and decorations and such??? Im so excited.

[MomtoRee]

Exciting news at our house...Reegan got on her hands and knees and rocked back and forth a few times and then crawled backwards  !  She was on our bed getting ready for bed and I wanted to jump up and down and scream but since it was bedtime I couldn't.  I have only seen her on her hands and knees a couple of times and am not expecting a repeat performance anytime soon.  I think that it was just a one time thing for now but exciting to know that she can do it if she really wanted to!  Besides that she took two steps behind her push walker yesterday  :shock: She's going to walk at the same time that she crawls. 

This weekend was interesting for sleep.  Friday night her tooth must have been really bothering her or she had an upset stomach because she was up 8 time    I ended up feeding her twice because I couldn't get her clamed down at all and you could tell that something was wrong.  Then Saturady night she slept 11 hours straight  Problem is that I am awake waiting for her to wake up!  So when she sleeps through I don't.  how crazy is that?  Last night was back to the normal 5 wake up and back to sleep until 7. 

Such a cute new picture!  We took ours down and now I have to figure out how to get a new one up. 

Sorry to hear about the bumps and bruises.  I can't stand it when Reegan gets hurt.

[Gigismom]

Sarah-i love your picture of isaiah.  he looks like a happy boy!!  and of course you have to have a pool in arizona.  where are you in AZ?  we live in the palm springs area, so we are fellow sufferers in the desert!

Jen-your comment about the "granite boobs" cracked me up.  of course they couldn't tell us the true horrors about to befall us in those silly classes...fortunately, i was high on a cocktail of vicodin and lack of sleep, so i vaguely remember the pain of the first breastfeedings now. 

momtoree-gianna's sleep too was interrupted a lot by the teeth coming in, mostly the top teeth.  it only lasted about a week i guess.  i have the same problem as you in that i cannot sleep even when gianna is sleeping because i am waiting for her to wake up.  i wake up every morning at 4:30-5:00 even though she usually sleeps til 6:30!!  it's a curse...

[dixiedutch]

Well, Mom to Ree, I am glad we are not the only ones with sleep issues! Lana was baptized last week and we had both sides of our families staying with us ...in the same house...it all went well (except that I purchased one too few steaks...Freudian slip as I am a vegetarian!) BUT I was awfully stressed. Lana picked up on it, sensitive/spirited type that she is, and had 3 hour "wide awake" spells in the night. I was afraid she would wake up all the sleeping grandparents, so we spent those hours on the back porch, listening to the fountain in the pond at the edge of our back yard and watching the moon and stars. Enchanting, but boy was I so tired!

Sharon....thanks so much for responding to my BF questions. Is that you with Ella Rose in the bucket? For some reason, I thought you were in MN, but you are in Canada...I think that is really special that Ella Rose and Lana have the same birthday.

We are doing lots of finger foods these days as well. She LOVES it, too!

Kathy....I will have to try those Laughing cow cheeses. I've been eager to try cheese, but uncertain which one to go for first. I'll be a copy-cat.

We've been trying to sign, mainly to keep me entertained, but Lana does TRY to sign back "dog" as we let our Aussie out of the kennel each morning. That is her favorite part of the day.

Sarah...what a cute little fellow....we have a float like that, too and it is great....

Welcome back from bum computer land MorganLeigh....

It is great to be back  :lol:

caroline

[hannah'smom]

We just got back from the cottage. THe fresh air did hannah some good. She slept 12 hr a night. First night back home and she was up at 5:30 looking to eat. She bit me for the first time today and screamed. I didn't think it would hurt that much. I felt bad because I really scared her. After that very unpleasant experience I have decided to start weaning her.
Still no signs of her crawling but she too is starting to take a few steps with her walker.

Dixiedutch- I am going to replace one feed with a bottle every two weeks. I don't want to wean too quickly. We also have a dog too which DD love, a st. benard ( he will be great in the snow...DH actually plans on putting a sleigh behind him and putting DD in it)

Well interesting to hear about all the c-sections. We had one too. After pushing for 4 hrs and the doctor decided that Hannah wouldn't fit through my pelvis so off to the OR we went. Really it's hard to believe how fast the whole thing happened. DH said it was interesting to watch. Oh ya I am 28

SOrry to hear about all the bumps and bruises

Pete'smom-congrat's getting him to go on the potty. That 's impressive. Obviously happening that many times it can't be all luck

Kathy we also tried laughing cow cheese and it was a huge hit

Sarah your son is too cute
 
well have to go make dinner and catch up on all the other posts

[caljaccol]

7 teeth and counting!!!!

Hanna's mom, aren't the frsh air= longer sleeps days great    I try to tkae dd for a walk every night after supper just so she will sleep longer.

DixieDutch, kids seem to have a keen sense when things aren't quite right.  Hopefully now that things settle down she is doing better.

MomtoRee, to funny about crawling backwards.  If I remember correctly 3/5 of mine did that first too.   Now that she has done it once, I am sure that it won't be longer before she is crawling all over the place.

MorganLeigh, hopefully the cold will be short lived.  Isn't that always the way things seem to work?
No b-day plans here yet (but hten I still have another 3 months :wink: )

lil'monkey, more hours of sleep at night yippeeee!!!!  I am sure we could all use that

Zayandme, he is so cute :!:
How is the bump doing? 


Pete's mom, that is great about the potty!  Keep it up and he will be trained in no time.  I think it is important that kids learn early on where to pee and poop. Much easier then trying to teach them that the way they have been doing things for a year or two is wrong.

Jaydn'smom,  I don't know if anyone can eat more Cheerio's then my dd.  As long as the other kids give them to her she will eat them.  We go thorugh the jumbo box pretty quick!


Opps, gotta run.  Sorry if I missed anyone

[jillybeansmith]

I've got a lot of posts to read...a few pages anyways..., but before I get into the reading, I thought I would give a quick Con update.

He is rolling everywhere, and crawling backwards...he is into everything.

With this, we are having HUGE sleeping problems...he's been over-excited, and over-tired...he doesn't want to nap and he doesn't want to go to bed...has anybody else experienced this with spirited babies once they discover they can move???

It was cute, Connor also discovered that he has a bunny rabbit..We've had a pet rabbit named Jack for a few years, but Con has discovered his existence, and is very excited and intrigued by him...we set the rabbit up in front of Connor's exersaucer, and it entertains him for hours!!!..\

Oh yeah...I think tooth number 8 is coming soon...

[jillybeansmith]

By the way..PU/PD really seems to anger Connor to the point that he is having a fit, and I end up rocking him to calm him down.

I've finally ruled out that his awakenings have anything to do with hunger...the bottle was just a prop, and we nearly have it worked out, but now, I think I'M the prop...I have to rock him or walk him, but PU/PD seems to make things worse.

Does anybody have any suggestions???  I'm really getting worried, and  I only have 2 months to get all this straightened out before I go back to work...

If I let him cry too long he's inconsolable, red, sweaty, angry and defiant!!!

[pdb]

Wow, I had a lot to catch up on today.  For some reason I'm not getting emails notifying me that there are new posts. 

Well after the two or three nights of horrible bedtime, we are back to going down easily.  I have added a little extra snuggle time right before bed and naps and that seems to have helped for now.  I think I was going a little too extreme in the other direction wanting her to be able to put herself to sleep.  It's a VERY fine line with Susana.

We finally have a top tooth!!!  After about a month and a half of having the top teeth right at the surface, the left one started cutting through yesterday.  It's not out all the way yet, but definite progress.  Napping is back to normal for now too.  At 4:30 this morning she woke up shrieking.  Don't know what was wrong, can they have nightmares yet??

We were back to early morning poops again this weekend.  I introduced potatoes hoping I could feed her those at night since Kathy said that helped.  She hates them.  In fact she's hated the last couple of foods I've introduced.  Seems all she wants to eat is Cheerios and rice cakes.  Tonight I had to slather puree on her rice cake to get her to eat some squash.  Is anyone else having picky issues?  Do you just offer one food and let it go if they don't eat? or try something else and see if they want it?  I don't want to keep thawing and throwing away food cubes all the time.

jillybeansmith - Have you tried getting that Good Night Sleep Tight book?  PU/PD would get Susana really upset too.  I found letting her cry some on her own (not too much) worked better.  She was having big napping issues when she first started crawling and pulling up, but they seem to be getting better now.

I'm totally ready to get started on party planning.  Even though we have almost 4 more months, if I don't start now, I'm afraid I won't get done.  My sister had a huge party for my niece.  I think we want to keep it a little more low key for our dd.  She gets way overstimulated if there are too many new people at once.

I hate to hear about all the bumps.  So far we have avoided any, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time. 

Sarah - What a cute picture!

[Jadynsmom]

Phoebe - I have wasted many cubes of veggies too.  Tonight she was really cranky and would eat only cheese & cheerios :? She loves sweet potatoes but tonight would keep turning her head and make a horrible face & whined.  Oh, well, I hope tomorrow will be different.  She loves the cheese.  They are ridiculously expensive and she eats two of them at a time.

MorganLeigh -  :shock:  :shock: 1st birthday party???  I can't even get past my lo is 8mos, let alone getting close to the 1st birthday.  I have to always make her birthday special since it's the day after Christmas. I hope she will feel special on her birthday and also be able to enjoy Christmas and not feel like she's slighted. Love the pic of him in your sink with the duckie.
 
Sara - Love your pic!! Sorry to hear about his bruise.  Jadyn has a black eye and on top of that she hit the wooden coffee table on her forehead this morning and now that's purple as well.

MomtoRee - Before you know it she will be crawling all over the place and you will have to confine her!! :lol:   I almost wished my lo would just sit still & not be into everything.

Hanna'smom - Sorry to hear about her biting you.  I don't want to wean yet, but when she does bite me, it's enough for me to consider not giving her the boob for the rest of the day :wink:  I do yell out & I tell her "no biting.  That hurts mommy".  She looks at me & smiles, but then when she sees me frowning & not laughing, she stops smiling.  I don't know if she gets it or not, but I do take her off my breast immediately and say "ok.  We're all done." 

Jen - That's great about him pottying so often!!  I put her on the potty after eating, but she didn't poop so I took her off of it after about 3mins.  Of course, 5mins later she pooped while pulling up on the couch.  I put her on it again right after her nap since her diaper was dry and guess what, she peed & laughed while doing it!! I laughed with her and clapped.  It was too cute.  I'm encouraged by your story and I am going to be consistent after every nap to put her on it.

Jillybeansmith - I have to agree with Phoebe on letting your lo fuss for a little bit (not crying a lot).  I left Jadyn to fuss & whine while she pulled up & played in her crib and she does go to sleep on her own after about 10 mins.  If she cries really loudly, I do go in & lay her down & give her the paci & her lovey. 

Dawn - 7 teeth?! Wow.  I think Jillybeansmith is right with you with 8?? Your lo's are 8mos?  That's a lot of teeth.

Well, all this hurricane & tropical storm is going to affect us tomorrow with the wind & rain and they just called off school.  That means I will have 2 children bored staying at home.

Kathy

[caljaccol]

Now that 5 are in bed, let me try this again.

Yes, dd has 7 teeth.  She discovered the best secret, pop 4 through at once :shock:   Made for a h#!! of a week, but it went pretty quick.  Kind of glad she got so many at the same time as she gets those darn ear infections.  Tonight she has been upset again so I am guessing it is due to the one popping in on the bottom now.  I gave her Tylenol so hopefully that will ward off the ear infection and save me a trip to the dr.

Dd is eating anything and everything she can get her hands on.  Her favourite things seem to be Cheerios and Mum-Mum's.  I think later are her favourite when her teeth are bugging her.  For breafast she eats cereal or toast.  Lunch is small pieces of fruit or veggies.  Supper she likes noodles or soup.  She cna not stand potatoes though.  Everytime I try to give her some she makes this really funny face and turns the other way.

For the last week or so I have been tweaking her schedule a bit to allow for the kids school schedule.  Her morning nap has been moved a little bit earlier (she sleeps about 1.5 hours then).  Her afternoon nap I have had to shorten a bit (about 1 hour).  So far it seems to be working.  It is getting darker at night now, so bedtime is going very well.  I lie her in crib, cover her up and she nods off to sleep.

She has all but given up on crawling.  She still has to crawl to get anywhere, but once she is there she stands up!  She can stand quite a while now.  I bug dh that when he comes home this weekend she will probalby walk just for him. :roll:

And she babbles ALL the time.  Finally she is over dadadadad and is MMMMMMMM everything.

DD1 taught her to high five.  IF we put our hand up she hits it and laughs.  Does anyone else have a LO that insists on sticking their tongue out all the time?  That is a funnier game then any I have ever bought for her.

[zayandme]

Oh, yeah. Tongue out is definitely the thing right now. Very cute.
Same with switching from Dadadada to MMMMM- funny that they're so alike in  a lot of ways right now!

Okay, other than crawling places to stand, and looking through books (melts my heart to see him look at the pictures, flip pages, etc. I love it), it seems like my little guy has hit a new level with toys.
He's bored with them.
Any suggestions for things your babies like to play with right now? (preferrably nothing Ihave to go out and buy- although I guess I may be willing to get a little something).

[Mum to Ella Rose]

This is something you may have to buy (or already have...) but off the top of my head dd's new fascination is with balls. Must run will catch up later! 

btw love all the pictures!!!!!!!!! (and no that isn't me with Ella in my avatar it's the neighbour. we were having a bbq and she got filthy so we plunked her in the tub outside and I snapped a picture.)

Sharon

[Mum to Ella Rose]

Oh one more thing... Caroline when was your dd born? I thought they had the same birthdays from the tickers but at certain times it's off a day... so I thought maybe the time zone's?? Dd was 10:20 Nov.20th...and were in Pacific time...