Babies of Oct-Dec /04

[Pete's Mom]

Oh, totally forgot to mention a big welcome to all the newcomers on the thread.

[Noelle]

Hi all....still keeping up.....

just a few notes.....John took 2 naps for a LONG time!!!!  They were lovely  :wink:

A little hint for hard to pick up finger foods...roll them in crushed cheerios or bread crumbs 

Welcome all new comers!!! 

[zayandme]

Its been a long time, but I'm back!
Good to see you all again (hehe that sounds funny since we can't really see each other...)

[Gigismom]

welcome back sarah!!  glad to see you again too.

momtoree-hope you get the raise.  keep us posted.  i have a question about reegan missing one of her naps to go to playgroup.  i have a couple of friends here who have a playgroup once a week (during am naptime) and they are wanting us to join in.  but i don't know how i would work g's nap.  when reegan missed her nap, did you keep her up til the next scheduled nap time?  or put her down earlier than you would have?   was she hard to get to sleep for the nap or bedtime?  i would love to join a playgroup, but if it means i will be paying for it the rest of the day or night, then it's not worth it to me.  when we move back to sacramento, i am planning on starting one at MY house so g can take her naps no matter what.  (i am a little unbalanced as you can see!)

petes mom-gianna took a while to get into the hang of finger foods too.  she would eat cheerios, but mainly just smash the fruits and vegs.  now she does really well with them.  i would say just keep trying with him.  as for our dog, we are planning on keeping her i think.  we have just committed ourselves to not allowing any physical contact.  if i can't be watching both of them like a hawk, then bailee gets locked in another room or outside.  she doesn't mind since she mostly sleeps all day anyway.  but we just feel like if we got rid of bailee we'd have to get rid of the other dog too since all dogs are capable of biting, kwim?  and we want gianna to grow up with animals since there are so many benefits to that and we want her to learn to respect animals.  i am just glad God gave me a "freebie" with that nip and she wasn't seriously hurt.  lesson learned!

noelle- that picture of zoe always cracks me up.  she is so cute.

[Jadynsmom]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to check in & let you know I'm reading when I get a chance.  Working a little more these days and having a horrible time with Jadyn screaming & clinging to me for dear life as soon as the babysitter comes through the door. :roll: Such a drama queen.

She's been on a nursing strike for 3 days.  I thought I was going to have a breakdown yesterday, but she has nursed 3 times today!!! I can hardly contain myself.  What am I going to do when it's time to wean? :oops:

Naps are going well and nighttimes are predictable at 7:30pm til 6:45am.  She is eating well the things she likes to eat.  Loves her fruit, Cheerios, pasta, yogurt, jasmine rice or sticky rice and carrots.  One of my favorite food is tofu and I gave her a sample of it while I was cooking with it.  I gave it to her uncooked, cold, and she ate & ate til it was all gone.  I have to go & buy tons of it.  For me & for her!!  I get the firm tofu and cut it up & put it on her tray and she gobbles it up.  Also gave her organic peas and she loved picking it up one at a time & eating them.  I think she definitely likes to pick up her own food.

Hope you guys have a great weekend.

Kathy

[Noelle]

noelle- that picture of zoe always cracks me up.  she is so cute.

Thanks Lindsey  ...though I'm getting antsy..time to switch again soon  :wink:

Ohhh Kathy thanks for the idea on Tofu (and rice).  We don't eat it ourselves but totally forgot about it. John would never eat it.  Mental note..go buy some 

[MomtoRee]

I bet that Reegan would like tofu.  I need to pick some up at the store. 

Gigismom - we took our second nap about an hour early.  That night she was good too.  No more than her usual one wakeup at 5 to eat and then she slept in an extra half hour.  I think that I might have the sitter start taking her on Thursday so she can be around other kids.  Eventhough it skips a nap I think that it is worth it to see other babies.  THat would be great to have it at your house but do you really think that she would go to sleep if there were that many other kids there?  I know that Reegan wouldn't. 

I am trying not to be so stuck on the schedule anymore.  She is older now and has a little more flexibility so last night we stayed at a party until almost 7:30!  That is her usual bedtime and she did great.  She went to bed about 8 and did great.  I was so happy that we could stay a little longer. 

Someone gave us a little plastic slide and Reegan loves going down it!  She tries to crawl back up too.  I was happy that we got something new.  I think that she is bored with her toys.  Does anyone else think this?  She doesn't really play with them anymore.  I don't want to buy any since her birthday is in a month but I feel bad for her. 

Have a great weekend!

[lil'monkey]

Jen - I start work this Monday and I'm a little sad about it now.  I left dd with my mom last week and did a trial run of having dd there for the entire day without me.  Her naps were quite erratic (I think that she is really trying to transition to one nap) but the nights were fine.  I was afraid that there would be lots of night wakings but she slept 10-11 hrs without a fuss.  Which is very good.

We had guests today and she walked 4-5 steps for them!  I can't believe that this is happening soon quickly!  So is she a toddler now?

Well gotta go.  Dh is making dinner and he's calling!

Good sleeps everyone!!!

[jillybeansmith]

Hi...I guess I haven't been on in a few days...just busy.
Yesterday Connor went to a birthday party for a 2 year old...I had him sitting on a comforter on the ground, and was watching him carefully, but he somehow managed to sneak in a leaf for a snack.  After a few minutes, he started puking...and puking .... AND puking...it went on forever...finally in the bottom of the pile of throw-up was a chewed up leaf!!...Scared me...it took him about 4 throwup sessions to get rid of it!

Connor goes for his first 1/2 day of daycare tomorrow...it's going to be weird...I'll let you know how he makes out.

He's finally eating some finger foods now...love toast and crackers now...

[Mum to Ella Rose]

Lordy I don't even know where to begin to catch up with everyone!  :shock:  :lol: Still reading, but I just got sooo behind so very quickly! Ella has had a terrible cold but we're through the worst of it now. Of course tooth #8 is making it's way in now so we're back to being a bit erratic. I'm just incredibly in love... ~sigh~ you know it's funny, I'll watch Ella do something and then I read about it here...or I'll read something one of your lo's has done and a few days later we'll be experiencing the same thing. It's really cool! One example is the tantrum thing. Ella folds herself in half, face to the floor and wails... :roll: Oh and the sippy cup thing!!! She's been drinking water from a regular cup since 4 months. Never milk and has refused all sippy's. with water or otherwise. Suddenly yesterday she crawls over to the kitchen cupboard that has all the non breakables in it, hauls out a sippy and starts to pretend drink out of it. (this is the girl who won't even hold her own bottle) So I quietly take it from her, put some water in it and gave it back to her. And she drank it! All of it! hee hee. Made me laugh. Talk about doing things "when she's good and ready!"

Anyways, I hope you all are well!!!!

And congrats Mimi on the steps! That's huge!!! 

Sharon

[Gigismom]

OMG!!!  ANOTHER DOG BITE!!!  this one was totally out of the blue and vicious.  i was playing on a blanket with gianna and bailee was "sleeping" (at least appeared to be) about 2-3 feet behind me on the floor.  gianna was sitting and then rocked foward to her hands to start crawling.  i guess bailee must have been watching because she flew across me and bit gianna right in the face AGAIN.  this one was harder than last time, but there is only one puncture wound.  so i have no idea what caused this one because gianna wasn't even touching her or near her.  i am thinking maybe it has something to do with g's newfound mobility because it happened last time when she was starting to crawl too. so bailee is definitely going to have to find a new home.  although a baby-biter may be hard to place.  as soon as it happened and i picked up g and made sure she was ok, i was furious at bailee for about 1 second.  then i just got really sad because i knew she couldn't stay with us.  only another dog lover could understand how someone could still love a dog who just bit their kid.  she will probly be gone sometime this week but i think dh may have to drive her to the weimaraner rescue in sacramento.   really sad.

momtoree-well, gianna has so many toys, it's hard to get bored with them!!  she will play with a set of toys for about 20 mins, then fuss and want a new set.  i am really trying to halt the toy buying.  i want her to appreciate what she has and not have so much that she doesn't care about any of it.

kathy-gianna has barely been nursing too.  i am lucky to get one bf out of her at bedtime.  she is just too active and interested in other things.  we were at a friend's house the other day and she was making korean food for dinner, so gianna got to try tofu.  she spit it out immediately but at least she tried it!  i always forget to buy tofu too, but i really like it myself.

sharon-hope ella is feeling better soon!!

[pdb]

jillybean- That must have been scary.  Sounds like the plant might have been poisoness to make him so sick.  I'm glad he's OK.

Sharon - Glad to know my dd's not the only one who won't hold her own bottle.  My pediatrician has told me to work on that.  She knows how, but the second you even look like you might help her out, she lets go - just being lazy I guess.

Lindsey - I'm sending you a pm.

[Jadynsmom]

Hi all!

So sorry about Gianna getting bit & having to find a new home for bailey.

Hi Sharon!  Good to hear from you.  Sorry Ella's not feeling well.

So sorry about Connor & leaf incident.  It must have been horrible.

I can't believe I'm sitting in the hospital, again!!!  Lexi's got infection that spread to her leg from her appendix leaking.  I'm just overwhelmed with trying to take care of her, Jadyn being so clingy & teething, being at the hospital all day long !!  AARRGG!!

They have not been communicating  with me so I have already went off on 2 doctors and 4 nurses and threatened to leave & take her home!!.  After my fit they finally took the set up a ct procedure to take the fluid out of her hip today and going to check which antibiotics to give, which means we will be here anothe 2-3days.  We have been her since Sat.  To to it off, my work needs me to fill in for someone that just quit the next 3 days.  I think I will just have a nervous breakdown right here in the hospital. I'm spending the night here and Jadyn is at home with daddy and would not go to sleep.  She was looking for me and crying. :cry: This is my first night away from her.

I have a computer in her room, so I guess I will have something to do at night when Lexi's alsleep.

Kathy

[Gigismom]

kathy-i am SO sorry about your situation.  that must be so hard for you.  i wish we lived closer so i could help out somehow.  i hope your dd is ok soon.  it's sad that when you are sick and in a hospital you have to threaten doctors to tell you what's going on and to take care of you.  (i have had similar problems myself, so i feel for you!!)  keep us posted.

phoebe-your pm never made it...?

[lil'monkey]

Kathy - I'm so sorry to hear about the trouble you're going through.  I hope that Lexi's spirit is up despite being in the hospital. 

Phoebe - oh...I hope that G is fine now. 

Sharon - welcome back!  Hope Ella is feeling well.

Jilly - hope Connor is fine.

Is this the phase for a bottle/nursing strike or self-weaning?  Like some of you, I'm finding it very hard to get dd to take the bottle.  Anyone has succes with feeding milk in a cup or sippy?  DD would only take water from it and if I sneak in some formula, she'll spit it out. 

Good night for now.