Addison made her first trip to Iowa City to visit her Uncle Ben last week. She was very pleased with the outcome of this trip because she ended up with a few cute outfits from Von Maur, courtesy of Grandma Di, got to see Uncle Ben even though she doesn't understand why he doesn't like to hold her, got to hang out with great-grandma Pat (aka: Big G) and got lots of kudos from Mama Mic for taking a bottle from Grandma Di. She's officially shopped in Madison, Wi, Davenport, IA, Iowa City, IA and Galena, IL. She's looking forward to Thursdays and Fridays with Grandma Di where there's certain to be more shopping adventures.
We've winterized her car seat with a little bundling thing to keep her warm considering the temps have certainly dropped. She loves her new hat, maybe love is a strong word but she only screams while you're putting it on her and then she snuggles into it. Who wouldn't love being snuggled into a warm fleece blanket and having someone carry you around??!!! Babies sure live the life!
I'm preparing to go back to work this week. I'm starting with 1/2 days on Thursday and Friday and then will go full time on Monday. I had truly convinced myself that it wouldn't bother me to go back to work and that seemed to shatter this week when I realized how much of my time I'll spend at work and not at home with my peanut. It's going to be a bit tough but I'm sure i'll get through it as a result of the laughter and sarcasm I'll endure in the office from having to pump during the day. Thank heavens for comedy in our lives.
Addison is doing much, much better with eating these days. She's realized that in order to not be hungry she'll need to accept a bottle during the day. We can't quite convince our sitter our my mom to strap the bottle on to their chest to make it seem more real so she'll just have to learn to love the bottle. She's also doing really well with the terrible tasting Nutramigen. I think she secretly likes it! She screams less overall as a result of her tummy so we think we're heading in the right direction. I personally live for the day when I can eat Happy Joe's pizza again but it's worth it to abstain from dairy now in order for her to get all the good stuff she needs. Sleep on the other hand is still a battle. We've started a new routine at 7pm: I feed her if it's time for her to eat, we give her a bath if it's bath day (if not, she gets her head and bum wiped with a warm wash cloth and calming cream on her arms and legs), we read her a book and then we say goodnight and lay her down in the pack and play. She hasn't moved to her crib yet, i'm just not ready!! We promised each other that at 3 months she would start sleeping in her crib and out of our room. This seems to work for 20-30 minutes tops and she sleeps but then she is up and she is mad. It then typically take anywhere from 2-3 hours to get her to go down and stay down. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We take turns soothing and putting her back down after she's cried for about 5-7 minutes but it just doesn't seem to work. If anyone out there has suggestions, send them please!! When she does officially fall asleep, she'll sleep for 4-5 hours before waking up to eat. We do this routine every night and cross our fingers that one of these days, it's going to click with her and she'll just zonk out when we put her down. She has little bags under her eyes at night and we know she's too young for eye creme!!! A positive lately though is that she has started sleeping during the day. A few hours at a time!!! It's fantastic!!! She's so much happier when she wakes up and I'm so much happier because I've rested too.
Well, that's about all that's new on Perry Street. We're hoping to get pictures taken on Friday since she'll be 8 weeks old and has grown so much since the last time we had them done at 8 days. She also goes to the Dr. on thursday for her shots and well-child check up. I'm certain I will cry more than she does!! She's growing up so fast!!!!
Cheers,
Mic, Deb and Addison
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