we are more than halfway through our bachelorette week and we are surviving. i am not going to bed as early as i should to accommodate my earlier alarm in the morning but other than that, it’s all good. we had a fun afternoon – playing and laughing. seeing her smile is one of my favorite things!
the big news of the day is that she is finally napping at daycare – yeah!! – and went down easily for a nap ~5.30p tonight – double yeah! we have been having some napping issues (which you can read about in this blog) …
freaky dog
why is my dog such a freak? he can be fast asleep and the minute he hears the TV click off, the laptop close, or my socked feet touch the carpet, he is up like a shot, ready to follow me wherever – the bathroom, the kitchen, the laundry room – it doesn’t matter. god love him for loving me so much but seriously – he’s so clingy!!
day 4, bachelorettehood
we are on night 4 of bachelorettehood. things are going well so far, it’s pretty easy since mallory is on a decent schedule. friday night my dad came out for dinner; saturday we took coops for a long walk in the woods with his friends CJ & fenway, and then mallory headed out for her first sleepover (i had a late hockey game saturday night and early hockey practice sunday morning, so rather than disturbing my sister’s household late-late saturday and early sunday, we decided i would just leave mallory there all night).
i got to emily’s with enough time to …
the bachelorettes
mallory & i are bachelorettes for the next 10 days. well, bachelorettes with a dog. rick left us to go on spring break with the softball team so the chicks and the dog are on our own. mallory is starting off the weekend with a big nap on the couch, and i should be taking advantage of the hands free time by doing some cleaning. so here i go, more later :-)
new toys (ours, not mallorys)
we got a new camcorder earlier this year and are slowly figuring out how to have so much fun with it. we are able to download to our computer and make movies. here is a little one we did this week, showing mallory “talking”. enjoy!
(make sure you have your sound on!)
i seriously watch this almost hourly at work. i can’t stand how cute she is!!
happy valentines day!
we are settling into some pretty nice routines and schedules with little miss mallory. she likes a long nap in the morning and takes couple of shorter naps later in the day ~ we still suffer through the evenings if she doesn’t sleep enough during the day. it’s hard because we might be trying to fit too much stuff in to our days at the expense of her sleeping. she makes up for the sleeping at night, and still goes down beautifully at bedtime, but it’s hard for us to have dinner and quiet time if she is crabby pants. …
a bunch of sickos
We are all sick. Mallory, rick, me ~ even cooper. The humans have colds and the canine has a bladder infection (which we are hoping will explain his recent peeing in the house).
Mals is now 3 months old. She has developed into a fabulous night sleeper and a not-so-great daytime sleeper. She still loves her baths. She is very tolerant of all of the escapades rick & i drag her along on, like leaving the house at 6p on sunday to hit a couple of super bowl parties. She just rolls with it which is outstanding. She is also agreeable …
is there anybody out there?
just wondering if anyone actually reads this blog. it’s OK if i don’t have an audience because i am mostly journaling here so that i have material for mallory’s scrapbooks when i get around to doing them.
but if you are reading, can you post a comment or shoot me an email? it will help me decide if i need to be clever and witty or just journalistic.
i got snubbed again!
tonight was the 2nd night in a row that mallory doesn’t want/need me to comfort her to sleep.
now that i’m back to work i miss having quiet time to hold her, especially on the weekend nights when i don’t mind staying up later to rock her to sleep. tonight she fussed and wiggled until i turned on her Hail to the Victors mobile over her crib and lay her underneath it. without even a whimper, she put herself to sleep.
i know i shouldn’t remotely complain since we are very lucky that she is such a good night sleeper but it …
mallory has already outgrown her mom
so tonight after mallory’s bath, we cuddled in the glider and i started reading her a book. she was having none of the book and none of me just rocking her or burping her or doing the special deep knee bend bounce she usually loves ~ she was so fussy and tired from her non-existant afternoon nap. so i put her in her crib, said goodnight and she quit crying. what 12-week old baby STOPS crying when her mom puts her in the crib and leaves the room? i was sort of sad for a minute but then realized tomorrow …