It's been a while since I posted, so I will just put in some of the biggies that I have not been able to update about...
17 weeks- dropped the dream feed!
11-21-10 Sunday- Addison rolled back to belly
18 weeks- moved herself to a four hour schedule
19 weeks- started solid foods! Friday 12/10 tried homemade brown rice cereal and LOVED it!
20 weeks- Learned how to SQUEAL/SCREAM! Started blowing extreme spit bubbles!
Baby's First Thanksgiving- at the Masters' house. Big crew!!! 12-18 Tried Avacado for the first time! Loved it, too!
21 weeks- spent several days out of town. Met the Sheperd side of the family. Because of travel... she was ill as a hornet!!! But, everyone said how beautiful she was :) Added Rice Cereal to morning routine. Avacado in the evenings with a side of a little rice creal. (RC from the box while we are on vaca)
Here is our current schedule when at home. We are still working on naps and wake times. Its just really hard to regulate with the different people that keep her through the week. Also, she is having some problems with waking early. From what I can tell, she is waking early because of a decrease in calories as she has moved to a four hour schedule. Here is our most recent schedule...
5:00 wakes screaming. Trying a mini feed and straight back down to bed.
6:30 breastfeed- maybe rice cereal here?
10:30 breastfeed or 5 ounces- maybe rice cereal here?
2:30 breastfeed or 6 ounces
6:00 breastfeed, solids
7:00 in bed.
She is at a point now where she does pretty good with bed time. Sometimes, not a peep, but other times she does CIO for a while... 30 mins or so. We also have got her doing CIO if she wakes in the night. She wakes up and cries for either exactly 10 minutes or exactly 20 mins. But, since we let her cio at those times, she most recently has been sleeping all the way through the night. Well, that is until the early a.m. wake times. But, from what I have read that is common with babies around 4 months old because of adjusting to a longer schedule and a decrease in breastmilk calorie intake.
Her temperment is so funny right now! My newest names for her are turtle and Addi Jo! Turtle is because she has started arching her back and leaning as far back as she can to see what's around her and to show us that she's mad! It amazes me how she can turn that neck. Sometimes she moves her way up to the corner of her crib and falls asleep with her neck all crooked up in the corner! Somehow, she levels back out. Addi Jo because she is starting to show that she not only LOOKS just like her Daddy, but she acts like him too :) Joe said she was laying under her jungle gym and pulled down the monkey (that is supposed to get pulled down). Then, she decided she wanted to hold the toucan. Well... he is attached. He said that she pulled so hard that she almost pulled the whole thing down on top of her! then squealed when she couldnt get it! That's his girl alright!!
A couple of little stories...
After we returned from Thanksgiving, we decided that we had to drop the swaddle bcause she was rolling over in it and we thought that was dangerous since she would not be able to hold her head up if this happened and her arms were wrapped up. Anyway- because of being sick, rolling over, and dropping the swaddle... we had been spoiling her at sleep times. We would hand-rock her and shhhhh her. She was beginning to depend on it. So, we decided it was absolutely necessary for us to start doing cry-it-out again... One night Joe and I were at our wits ends! He decided to go in and try to help her fall asleep once more. He put his elbows in her crib and put his head in his hands. She reached up and put both of her hands on his hands. He looked up at her and she gently moved one hand to her Daddy's cheek! So stinkin cute!!! That's our angel!
Last week, Joe and I walked by her room when she was taking one of her awesome naps. She was in a light sleep cycle and she was reaching up towards the crib bumper. She was grabbing for the top of it! She finally got it and was sleeping holding on to it and even pulling it down towards her face. While I breastfeed her, she reaches up for my face and grabs at my bra straps or the shirt I have on. SO I think that's where this is coming from.
That reminds me... While we were in Metter and Jacksonville for Thankgiving... Addison was waking and getting her arms out of her swaddle. She would take her hand and reach for the screening on her pack n play. She was scratching it like a cat! We were cracking up at it!!!
We have also discovered that Addison likes to sleep with her face right on the bumper pad. We would put her down in the middle of her crib and she would owrk her way over to the bumper pad. Joe had an epiphany one day and figured out that it must be like the same sensation she feels she is held in our arms and her face is on our shirt! Smart man, my hubby!
Lastly, she reaches up for my face all the time now. While I am feeding her, she will reach up and touch my lips or my chin. It is the sweetest thing I have ever seen! She was having trouble sleeping in the pack n play this trip down to Metter. So, I put her in the bed beside us and she reached over touched my face and fell right to sleep! ANGEL. How in the world am I ever going to want to put her back in her own bed, haha!
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