Cute Things

It's really amazing how much babies change in such a short time. She is really aware of her surroundings. She's even aware of the TV. She seemed really interested in the show we were watching that night.









She's even become too aware of cameras, especially my camera phone. She could be all smiles until I pull my phone out. Then we lose the smiles.










I had to throw in this picture. Check out the shoes. So cute! They're still too big but fit well enough to stay on.



We're excited. Brittney is coming over for dinner tonight. It'll be the first time we've seen her since she moved out. I'm sure she'll be surprised at how much the little one has grown.

The Move Out

This is what we came home to last night. Brittney decided to move out. She moved all her stuff to her Grandpa Russ'. She said she can't handle it here anymore. She feels that moving out will give her a new life, plus she'll be closer to school.

Miguel called it. In fact, we were talking about it earlier in the day. I'd asked if he'd get try to stop her if she did. He said no.

I wonder if moving in with Grandpa with really make a difference in her life. Will she really learn to be more responsible? She's not really out on her own there.

Good Luck Brittney!

Baby Wise

Natalie told me she had heard that Baby Wise was really great. I read it not long ago and realized I should've read it before Ryann was born. The main focus is to get her on a schedule of feeding/waketime/sleeptime. It's a little backwards from what most people do. How easy is it to nurse a baby to sleep?

We seem to be doing pretty well. I'm sticking to the 3 hour schedule to help with lactation and get her to distinguish between day and night. It really makes it easy to know why she is crying. I feed her when she wakes up, change her diaper and usually within an hour after that she gets grumpy. I stick a pacifier in her mouth and she's out within minutes.

Now comes the problem... the book recommends not using any sort of props to put the baby down for a nap. No rocking or nursing to sleep, and certainly no pacifiers to help sleep. The babies need to learn to self soothe. That's why I think it would've been easier to start from the beginning. It's hard to break routine and the pacifier works so well.

One step at a time. I'm really working on the schedule part. Once I think I've got that down, and when the kids are back at their mom's, I'll work on the self soothing. Nobody really wants to listen to her crying herself to sleep :(

Ryann was pretending she could sit up on her own. This is at Grandma Laura's house. We were visiting while Miguel helped Grandpa Polo fix the wiring on their trailer.