Just the Weekend...

In the theme of getting our lives back on track - we decided to head out to the museum for a Saturday afternoon. Lucy was all set in the stroller and Heidi was all set with her carrier...for her frog.

Their exhibit this time was all about whales and I have to admit, it was pretty cool. A lot of big screens so it felt like you were looking at whales in the ocean. And as Chris keeps giggling about, they had an entire skeleton of a sperm whale - the largest whale in the ocean. He wants to make so many jokes about sperm whales. Great...I married a 7 year old. I couldn't take any pictures inside the exhibit, but I didn't mind - gave me a chance to participate!

Onto the rest of the museum...

Check in on Lucy - she was happy happy happy and was awake and alert the whole time!

 It was 60 degrees outside - in January! Who knew?

The museum was great and we had a good time - now we did learn our lesson and we shouldn't have gone to dinner after the museum - too much stimuli and she was an unhappy baby for bedtime! Plus - she had a major blowout - that ended up all down my side... baby poop on you...I don't recommend it!

Now Lucy is growing - but it still a little peanut - how much? She can fit in Heidi's play stroller! hehe

I tried to take pictures of Lucy - well she had other plans - like playing with my camera strap! :) She is turning into quite the character!

So I ended up taking some sibling pictures... Man - its hard with two - one would look - then the other would look etc. I love the one where Lucy is staring at Heidi... she LOVES Heidi!

We have tried the jump chair again - no - Lucy is not doing any jumping - more like rotating slowly while pushing buttons. Its just another tool to use in the morning so I can get ready!!! Speaking of morning - we are doing better. We got up a little early this morning around 4:45 - but I'm hoping that is just the weekend aftermath and we get back to 5:30am!

Lucy is FINALLY starting to love baths! I think once she can sit - she will really enjoy them!

This was this morning - first Heidi really wanted an alarm clock and so we got it, set it and this morning...crying - mad as hell Heidi - like what the hell is this and why is it going off? Classic. She then crawled into my bed - where I had just put Lucy down for her mid morning nap. Both my sleeping babies!

5 Months

Lucy was officially 5 months yesterday - wow does time fly! She did do a great job sleeping the last two nights - two nights ago - she only woke up once and last night - slept through the night! Booyah!

Let's see...some notes - she talks and laughs and smiles a lot. She loves her toys and likes someone to interact with her all the time. She isn't ahead in the movement category but isn't behind either. She has rolled over a couple times - does baby sit ups but isn't that close to siting up yet. My guess is she is only around 12 pounds. She only gets 4 ounces at a feeding and we are hoping to increase that. We plan to re-introduce rice cereal this weekend and hope her body doesn't reject it like last time! She is growing and getting stronger but just at her own pace!

She has a great personality and we are looking forward to that growing! Our little butterball!

Cute Picture

Last night was okay, woke up twice from 7:15 to 10:45 and ate again at 10:45 - then at 3:30 - she woke up - cried for a moment and got herself back to sleep - yippee! I didn't have to do anything! After waking up at 6 and eating - she was happy as a clam!

I should have taken a video of her this morning - she was trying so hard to get her feet - she was grunting and basically lifting her shoulders and head off the bed - would get a foot and be so happy. It was really cute! I did snap this picture of her pushing off the pillow - she had just blown out her sleeper and was happy to be naked!

Happy 2013 & The Mystery of Lucy

Happy 2013 - I'm finally trying to post something! Our life is chaotic and my new years resolution is to get back into a routine - with EVERYTHING! From bedtime to working out to cleaning to everything!

First off, our wonderful neighbors invited us over for NYE - which was perfect. We just planned to try a bunch of different cocktails and well - now we had some more people to try with us. Heidi of course LOVES to play with them - so we were all happy! We brought the bar with us... good use of my 31 bags. :) We all had a good time, well except Lucy. She is a mystery and I think this time was just over tired. Fussy little girl!

Luckily our neighbors are good sports and the sound of a crying baby didn't bother them too much :) After a lot of rocking and bouncing - we did get her to sleep for a little bit...yes - in a toy dump truck. She loves loud noises and I think the sound of us playing Foosball and the fact the truck was a perfect bed - it worked. In the end she didn't REALLY end up going to sleep until 2am. yikes! Heidi also stayed up and was WAY too comfortable. I have a feeling we have a night owl on our hands!

Heidi wanted to make sure she wore her new cool outfit over to the neighbors with her hat!

I put Lucy in her new - snowsuit/thingy - she must have felt comfortable and fell asleep...

It was a good night and we had a lot of fun. Its our turn to host them over here...now if my house didn't look like a hoarders house...

Skip forward to this past weekend. We tried to run errands and get things back to normal. I have discovered these awesome vinyl wall stickers at Target. They come in all sorts of characters etc. We already got Heidi Sponge Bob ones for Christmas and decided Lucy's room need some color. Lucy starred at each one for a long time!

And like Heidi's room needed more color - but she wanted some sesame street ones too. I like waking her up in the morning and seeing where she moves them too.

Now the mystery of Lucy...this kiddo... She will just not sleep at night. Its like she will sleep for a short period of time - like maybe 2 hours and wake up - either for her pacifier or to eat. In the beginning - she was sleeping great - but after she got sick and has had this SAME cold, she just can't seem to get through the night. First, she was fussy for a good portion of the day. We finally decided that was tied to maybe what was in my milk. So we moved to 100% formula and that seemed to help.

Then we tried rice cereal and she would wake up SOOO angry in the middle of the night. So we pulled her off that and that seemed to help.

She doesn't spit up all but MAYBE once a week...maybe. She is now regular and poops a couple times a day. I don't think its the formula, but who knows...

I was brainstorming with my neighbor and she suggested doing a strict schedule. So starting on the 1st, we did a strict schedule, as much as we could. I watched the time more closely - tried to put her down for naps before she was overally tired etc. The one thing for sure we have been sticking to is starting bedtime routine right at 7pm so the latest she is bathed and fed is by 7:15. The first night, she got up 9 times. 9. Second night, 3 times - big improvement. Third night - she only got up once! So she CAN do it! Fourth night, 3 times - which one of the times was because Heidi was running and screaming down the hallway. But then Saturday night, she went to bed fine but woke up at 10:30 and was inconsolable until 12:30. We changed nothing! Urg!

She wasn't herself Sunday - she slept a ton and had a low fever. Last night she woke up 5 times. So we will see how she does tonight. She snores a ton and also sometimes sweats, which I have an inquiry into the doctor. She also coughs some. The doc thinks she is still fighting a cold and will be fighting it until her immune system is stronger. But this mom needs some sleep! :)

I do feel like the days and evenings have been better - less of - what can we do to have Lucy NOT cry - to more of - lets just play and have happy Lucy. If we could just get her consistent on sleeping! I think this next weekend, we will try rice cereal again and if she has the same issues as before - forget it! I do know worse case, you can skip cereal and go to veggies. We might just have to do that!

Heidi was such a good sleeper - it makes sense Lucy wouldn't be one! Lucy is truly opposite of Heidi. Little things like - Heidi never paid attention to the TV or my phone - Lucy LOVES watching screens. Heidi never wanted to be facing outwards in the baby bjorn carrier. Lucy gets mad if I have her in, wants to be out so she can see. Heidi was obsessed with watching the dogs. Lucy gets mad if they are blocking her view. hehe. I could go on and on...

During the day - she is really a fun kiddo (makes up for the lack of sleep). She is getting stronger and stronger and really interacting with us. We are at the point of everything goes into her mouth - and yes, I have pondered the thought that maybe she is teething. But they said it should affect her for a few nights/days - not months...

*sigh* We are just going to keep up on the routine and hopefully things straighten out! Chris and I are going to Vegas in April for our wedding anniversary - I keep joking with him - I'm just going to sleep. :)

So back to our chaotic life - we are also very much behind on laundry... so I enlisted Heidi's help and we thought it was a good way to wake Chris up from a nap...

It was just pajama day on Sunday...

Back to Sponge Bob...

Time for bed!