5 days and counting

Since I have nursed Camille in the middle of the night. She is doing great! I think John and I got really lucky though. We somehow timed it perfectly. Right when she started pulling up. I think she is just sleeping all night from being more tired because she has mastered a new skill and it takes a lot out of her. So being tired and sleeping all night is getting her out of the habit of waking up to eat. I hope. Every day she is sleeping later. She woke up at 5:30 am on Monday, 6:30 am yesterday and 7:00 am today. Can she do 8:00???

playmates

Camille and Avery are fast becoming playmates. It is so cute and I am so glad they have each other. They have already started fighting but that is part of childhood and I am glad they are getting to experience that as well. Camille will crawl right up to Av and take whatever she is playing with. It of course makes Av mad. Camille will have to learn she can’t just take things. Camille will also crawl up to Av and just kind of attack her. So far Av loves it. They just laugh and laugh together, it is the best sound in the world.

Avery can spell

Well not really but she is picking up some words. Last night I said to John “let me finish these dishes and then we can go on a w-a-l-k. Avery jumped up and said yay!!!! (Jack did too but he has known w-a-l-k for a while now) Guess we will start having to spell it backwards or something.

cloth diaper update

It is more work. I knew it would be and I am committed to doing it. I know it will get easier and easier the more I get used to it and the more I am able to get into a routine of it. The inserts are not totally absorbing it all like I had hoped they would. What the insert does not absorb the diaper is so that is good. She is not leaking and she is not wet but I will not be able to just change the pad without changing the underwear (glad John got such a kick out of that) like I had thought. That just means I need to pick out some more cute diapers for her. I will post some pictures of her sporting them. She looks cute in anything so it is no surprise she is cute in these.

cloth diapers

I am making the switch. I have fully committed and the new diapers will arrive at my house today. I am excited for it. I know it will be more work but I can handle it. After the last week dealing with all of Av’s poop I can deal with Camille’s. Cloth diapers have come a long long way. No more pins. They snap now and have elastic legs. They also are adjustable so they grow as the kid grows. So you only buy one set for the entire time the child is in diapers. The ones I bought are a diaper with an absorbent insert. You just change the insert if the diaper is not soiled. It is like putting a pad in your underwear. You don’t change your underwear every time you go to the bathroom you just change them if they are dirty. The diaper keeps the insert in place. I bought a diaper and a few inserts last week and used it and washed it a couple of times. It was a little more work to change the diaper but it will be worth it. I bought enough so I would only have to do laundry every 3 to 4 days, which I do anyhow. I really do think is it is going to be okay. Yes I may be crazy. I will let you know in a couple of weeks. I got them from www.greenerbaby.com if you are interested.

pulling up

When I went in Saturday morning to get Camille she was standing in her crib. That was the first time. It was so cute. She is barely taller than her crib so just the top of her head peeped out. She was very proud of herself. Smiling and laughing when I clapped for her. Camille is going to give us a run for our money. She is way more into things than Av ever was. We have a lot of baby proofing to do. Camille is already getting into the glass front TV cabinet. She has pulled over a floor lamp and a mirror onto herself. She was chewing on the coffee table the other day and she is always getting stuck under the coffee table. These were all things Av never did. In the bath the other night she crawled over Avery to get from one end of the bath to the other multiple times. She was examining the faucet and handles, she knew that was were the water came from. You could just see her mind working trying to figure it out. She is still our little bull too. She runs her head into anyone. The other day a little boy came to play and he was barely walking. She ran him right over.

Camille’s sleep habits

We finally had Camille’s nine-month check up last week. She was sick so I had to cancel the first appointment. The checkup went well. She is 17 lbs 2 ounces and 27.5 inches long. She is getting big. The doctor and I talked a lot about her sleeping. She is still up twice a night a few nights a week to eat. Part of it is that I don’t totally mind. I feed her and put her back to bed. Total awake time is 10 minutes. Plus I like the time with her and I don’t want her to grow up so in a way it is keeping her a baby to me. The doctor told me though she is too old to be doing this and I was creating a monster. He also said it would be a lot harder to stop the longer I did it and that it was kind of cruel to her to continue and then just stop someday when I was over it. So I cut her off this weekend. The plan was for John to go in there and comfort her. We started Friday night when John didn’t have to get up for work the next day. She did wake up Friday night but never really cried hard. We heard her talking and complaining but she went back to sleep so he didn’t have to do anything. Sat night she slept all the way through without making a peep. 8 pm-7:30 am. It was great. John bragged that he was that good he got her to sleep all night. I say she realized she might as well sleep if she wasn’t getting Momma. Again she tricked us. She was just waiting for a workday to keep us up. She woke up about 5am this morning. John went in there and it just made her mad. Very mad. We even got desperate and tried a pacy but it was a joke. She didn’t know what to do with it. It kills me laying there listening to John and her struggle when I know I could go in there and solve the problem in seconds. Especially when John has to get up early and has so much pressure on him at work, I know he needs to be sleeping. After about an hour of John going in there she finally gave up and went back to sleep. When she woke for good at 7:15 she didn’t even want to eat right away. So I know she does not need to eat in the middle of the night. It has been 3 nights no turning back now.