22 Weeks

In hindsight, I believe that Miss Addison's new skills- squealling and spit bubbles can possibly be chalked up to teething.  That's right- On Thursday night, Sammie had her finger in Addison's mouth and said she felt a tooth.  We thought she was exaggerating on how well Addison chomps down, but sure enough, I felt in her mouth the next day- and there was a TOOTH! It's small and just breaking hte surface, but our baby girl has got herfirst tooth!  It is the bottom right front tooth.  So, All I want for Chrstmas is my two front teeth... she got one!

Not only did she see that song come to fruition... she got to see a WHITE Christmas!  I have never had one in my lifetime!  According to the Weather Channel, the last measurable snow on Christmas Day was 1882... that's 128 years of no white Chrstmases!!! I know she wont remember it, but we got a couple of cute little pictures. 

Once we returned from Nanna and Pappa's house, we worked back towards a schedule, and it seems to be working.  On Wednesday night, she cried for an hour, on Thursday, only twenty minutes, then on Friday- we got home late because of Christmas Eve Dinner, she was over-tired, but still only cried and wimpered for about 30 mintues off and on.  Last night, on Christmas Day, she cried for a little while, but not too bad.  Tonight, she cried off and on for thirty minutes again. 

Feeding Updates: Tried Banana for the first time on Christmas Morning.  She was not quite sure what to think about it (its the first one that I have not warmed up at all, and there was no warm milk mixrd in).  Today, I pushed it through a mesh strainer to get an extra fine texture, and she seemed to like that better.  On Christmas Eve, I tried to bring back avacado for dinner.  But, I think that it was not quite ripe enough.  It was ver difficult to mash and Joe tasted it and said it didn't taste quite right, so she didn't eat very much that night.  So, while the other two Avacados ripen, we will finish off the sweet potatoes that I baked earlier this week.

Schedule:
4:00-5:00 sometime- wakes to have a snack for some extra caolories.  Worried about this one  a little.  Since it is varying times, I am thinking it is still hunger.  I've read that when it goes to a constant time of wake, it is habitual.
6:00/6:30 breast feeds
1-1.5 hour of wake time
7:30/8 down for a nap with very little crying if any
9:30/10:00 breast feeds, then eats solids (bananas this week)
1 hour 40 minutes of wake time
11:40 or so- down for a nap with 5 or so minutes of crying
1:45 or so- wakes
2:00 breast feeds
cat nap at some point, or a full nap- just depending on how her previous sleep has been
6:00 breast feeds, then eats solids (avacado or sweet potatoes)
6:30 bath
6:45 lotion, sing, bed by 7

Just a side note- she had some serious redness and scaley-ness on her trunk for a long time.  We had put sesame oil on it daily to no avail.  Joe asked Dr. Cordle about it at her four month appointment, and she wasn't terribly worried about it.  She made some suggestions, but they were all things we were pretty much doing right- natural soap, not bathing every day, she did suggest using hte sesame oil without the lavendar in it though.  So we tried that for a few days.  Then, shortly after the appointment, we were at my mom's house.  She gave us some Pau D'Arco lotion.  It was a miricle lotion!!!!! Her body feels so smooth and looks great!  I am so impressed.  I believe in the things my mom promotes, but this was an INSTANT improvement! Great News :)