4 months, part 2

We can’t write about 4 months without posting pictures! There are a few more on the Picasa site, and we’ll add more soon. Please don’t look at my hair…it’s the last thing on my mind right now! We have tried cereal 3 times with success one of those times. We’ll take pictures of that – it’s pretty funny. She makes the funniest face when it’s in her mouth, then she lets it ooze out. Sometimes she will swallow it on the second try, but not always!

Her biggest new trick is sucking her thumb (always the left thumb). We are not thrilled about it, but it does calm her down and she still hates pacifiers, so I guess that’s how it’s going to be. It’s a lifesaver in the middle of the night – for the past 2 nights, I don’t have to rock her back to sleep after she eats. (“Rocking” for us means we hold her while we are standing up and dance around the room…not just sitting in the rocking chair, no…that would be too easy.) I can just put her in the crib when she’s sleepy and she will suck away and fall asleep. Now I know how life with the pacifier could have been!

We are trying to get adjusted to life with a working mommy. I have today and the next 2 days off, which I am thrilled about, and I know Bob is too! It’s been tiring on all of us, but we are hanging in there. Our new bedtime is 8-9pm, especially when I am getting up with her during the night and then at 5am for work. I think it will get better now that I don’t have to work any more stretches of 5 days in a row. Even on days with just a half-day class, we still have to get her to daycare, mess with the pump and bottles, etc. Really, a 12 hour day isn’t much worse than a 4 hour day that way! We are going to hang in there and see how things go…and hope I can go part-time as soon as possible!