Early December Pictures

Bath time with my cousins


The bag is the best part of this gift. It's delicious!


My flower towel looks a little tipsy


With Santa Cow at Chick-Fil-A


I am so smart! S-M-R-T!


First snow


First trip to the mall


Sitting in the bumbo!

Sleeping

I don't really know what's going on with her sleep lately.

I've been nursing her to sleep since that's what works. She is no longer able to put herself to sleep. I don't know exactly when she lost the ability. I used to lay her down in the crib drowsy but still awake. I think one day she just started to fall asleep while she was nursing and then not wake up when I put her in the crib. Now if she wakes up when I'm putting her in the crib we have to start all over.

She has an evil internal alarm clock that wakes her up after 30 minutes. I used to be able to go in and nurse her back to sleep but now she seems to think that bedtime was just another nap.

Sometimes if I bring her downstairs and feed her again while we're watching TV she'll fall asleep and then we can put her in the crib without waking her up. Last night I tried that and she started playing. She talked to JR for, probably, an hour. Eventually she did go to sleep around 11 (much better than 1am the previous night).

She slept until 9 this morning. Ideally she'd sleep 8-8 and have two 1-1.5 hour naps. Right now it's looking more like 11 - 9 with God only knows how many naps and for how long.

Yesterday and today her morning naps have been pretty long 1.5 hours +. Maybe her night time sleep is being weird because she's learning how to sleep longer during the day. *fingers crossed*

It's just annoying because she's tired around 8 and she falls asleep just fine. Then she's up after a half hour and we're fighting to get her back to sleep for the rest of the night. It seems silly, like maybe we should just keep her up later if she's going to be awake. But she's tired so I have no idea.

Also, I want to get some stuff done around the house and if I'm spending three hours every night trying to put the baby to sleep that puts a pretty big kink in my plans.

4 Month Doctor Appointment

Kaida had her 4 month Dr. appointment today.

She weighed 11 pounds 5 ounces - 8th %
Was 23.5 inches long and - 24th %
Her head was 41.1 Cm in circumference. - 57th%

So she's gained a pound in two months, a quarter inch in height and 2 cm around her head. He didn't seem too concerned about her growth even though her pecentages are jumping all over the place.
She looks healthy so, as alarming as the measurements are, I'm just going to go along with it. She's a small baby. She was small when she was born and she's just continuing that trend.

She had two more shots and the oral vaccine today. She didn't scream nearly as much as she did last time. Probably because JR was there and I wanted him to see how awful it was so it actually wasn't awful at all. Or maybe she's thrown way more fits like that since then so now I'm used to them.

He said we can wait to start solid food until she shows some interest and starts seeming hungry. Like if she's waking up to nurse in the middle of the night. She did that for a little bit over Thanksgiving but I'm pretty much discounting anything that happened at Thanksgiving since we got so completely off schedule.

He did seem a little concerned that she's not rolling over yet so he prescribed more tummy time. Oh boy!