Jill at 6 months
Jill has mastered rice cereal and is on to peas. We spent a long time on the rice cereal because she seemed to throw it up fairly often. Feeding her peas is hilarious. She is voracious and will scarf down as much as I'll give her and cry when I stop. She's got her daddy's appetite. :) Here are a few pictures of Jill eating her peas.
I have joined a Mom to Mom group at my church and Jill has gone to the Cuddle Corner three times now. The first week was a disaster. The sitters paged me from the lecture and when I went downstairs Jill was screaming her, "I'm terrified, who are these people?!" scream. Poor baby. :( I picked her up and took her to a quiet room and nursed her to calm her. Then I decided to stay and play with her in the room so she could get used to it a little. Within 2 minutes she was playing in an exersaucer and squealing with delight. A nice woman in the room said, "Oh sure, now you're happy!" The woman gestured at Jill and said, "Her crying got all the other babies crying!" Whoops. This week Jill did great though. She lasted the whole two hours playing happily. When I came back to the room she was playing in an exersaucer that was shaped like a car so it looked like she was driving. So cute. Here is a video of Jill playing in her Baby Einstein Exersaucer at home.
I started working 10 hours a week from home three weeks ago. I told folks at work that I would try it until the end of the calendar year and then we could all assess how well it's going. My mom was really excited at the prospect of my working part time and she offered to watch Jill on Tuesdays so that I could dial in to my weekly meeting and do the bulk of the work then. My mom has been in Hawaii for 10 days. Without her help getting the 10 hours in is hard because Jill isn't a very good napper in the day (we're working on that!) and I loathe working during the evenings and on weekends. I want to visit with Bryan then. In a nutshell, Pros: mental stimulation, a little extra cash. Cons: having to work when Bryan is home, learning to expect quarter time results from a quarter time effort.
In the last couple of weeks Jill has started to fall into a new napping pattern. She goes to bed between 8:30 and 9:00PM, I pick her up and feed her before I go to bed around 11:00PM, then she sleeps until 6:30 or 7:00AM. She is ready for a nap around 9:00 and will sleep for about 45 minutes, then unfortunately the rest of the day is unscripted. I try to get her down again for at least a 30 minute nap at 2:00 and 5:00. It's hard though. I feel sometimes like I shouldn't complain about her napping habits when she is such a good sleeper at night.
I am also making an effort not to cuddle her to sleep so much anymore. She used to get overtired, freak out, and I would give her her pacifier and cuddle her until she went to sleep. Then I would ever so carefully put her in her crib. I realize though that while I am able to do that now (she's my only child and I have the two hands available) if we have a second child and Jill hasn't learned to put herself to sleep, I'm sunk. So we're working on it. She has started to comfort herself with her thumb and that is a lifesaver. Before she would startle and wake up when I placed her in her crib about half the time but now when that happens she'll plug her thumb in her mouth and go to sleep--sometimes anyway. God bless the thumb suckers! I think I'm going to pick up a couple of books today to get some tips on setting up a nap time routine. I heard that one called "Healthy Sleep, Happy Baby," or something like that is pretty good.
Here are two other pictures I like. The first is from a brunch we had when our friends Brian, Tina and Payton Steward came to visit from MN. We LOVED seeing them and their daughter Payton is such a cutie. Tina took this picture. Jill is sitting on the couch with her buddies Jillian DeLuca and Ian Hall. Jill looks so concerned over Jillian's crying but Ian doesn't have a care in the world. They are all so sweet.
I have joined a Mom to Mom group at my church and Jill has gone to the Cuddle Corner three times now. The first week was a disaster. The sitters paged me from the lecture and when I went downstairs Jill was screaming her, "I'm terrified, who are these people?!" scream. Poor baby. :( I picked her up and took her to a quiet room and nursed her to calm her. Then I decided to stay and play with her in the room so she could get used to it a little. Within 2 minutes she was playing in an exersaucer and squealing with delight. A nice woman in the room said, "Oh sure, now you're happy!" The woman gestured at Jill and said, "Her crying got all the other babies crying!" Whoops. This week Jill did great though. She lasted the whole two hours playing happily. When I came back to the room she was playing in an exersaucer that was shaped like a car so it looked like she was driving. So cute. Here is a video of Jill playing in her Baby Einstein Exersaucer at home.
I started working 10 hours a week from home three weeks ago. I told folks at work that I would try it until the end of the calendar year and then we could all assess how well it's going. My mom was really excited at the prospect of my working part time and she offered to watch Jill on Tuesdays so that I could dial in to my weekly meeting and do the bulk of the work then. My mom has been in Hawaii for 10 days. Without her help getting the 10 hours in is hard because Jill isn't a very good napper in the day (we're working on that!) and I loathe working during the evenings and on weekends. I want to visit with Bryan then. In a nutshell, Pros: mental stimulation, a little extra cash. Cons: having to work when Bryan is home, learning to expect quarter time results from a quarter time effort.
In the last couple of weeks Jill has started to fall into a new napping pattern. She goes to bed between 8:30 and 9:00PM, I pick her up and feed her before I go to bed around 11:00PM, then she sleeps until 6:30 or 7:00AM. She is ready for a nap around 9:00 and will sleep for about 45 minutes, then unfortunately the rest of the day is unscripted. I try to get her down again for at least a 30 minute nap at 2:00 and 5:00. It's hard though. I feel sometimes like I shouldn't complain about her napping habits when she is such a good sleeper at night.
I am also making an effort not to cuddle her to sleep so much anymore. She used to get overtired, freak out, and I would give her her pacifier and cuddle her until she went to sleep. Then I would ever so carefully put her in her crib. I realize though that while I am able to do that now (she's my only child and I have the two hands available) if we have a second child and Jill hasn't learned to put herself to sleep, I'm sunk. So we're working on it. She has started to comfort herself with her thumb and that is a lifesaver. Before she would startle and wake up when I placed her in her crib about half the time but now when that happens she'll plug her thumb in her mouth and go to sleep--sometimes anyway. God bless the thumb suckers! I think I'm going to pick up a couple of books today to get some tips on setting up a nap time routine. I heard that one called "Healthy Sleep, Happy Baby," or something like that is pretty good.
Here are two other pictures I like. The first is from a brunch we had when our friends Brian, Tina and Payton Steward came to visit from MN. We LOVED seeing them and their daughter Payton is such a cutie. Tina took this picture. Jill is sitting on the couch with her buddies Jillian DeLuca and Ian Hall. Jill looks so concerned over Jillian's crying but Ian doesn't have a care in the world. They are all so sweet.
In the next picture is proof that Jill's grandpa is right; we've got a baby genius on our hands.
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