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@ALV91711: Sooo true!!!

@silver1: @ALV91711: Hope you both got some sleep!

@shopaholic: Go K! Glad that she did again so you could see. She looks so cute in her swimsuit. Did the diaper hold up? We are going to do swim lessons around Jan/Feb. Figure it will be a good thing for Saturday mornings when it is too cold to do anything outside. My friend recommended the place she took her son.

@Adira: The bad thing about rolling is @ALV91711: is right. You can't just leave them anymore. No more leaving her on the changing table while I grab her outfit out of the closet or leave her on the couch while I run to the bathroom. Glad Xander passed the tests you tried out.

I did a couple with R when we were sitting outside, at least I thought I remembered them right. She did great. DH and I are going to do them all on Saturday with her.

So I just made a lunch date with my good friend for Saturday sans baby. Then DH and I have a date night that night. I don't know what I am going to do with eating two meals without a baby in my lap! Although I am already thinking how much I will miss her Saturday afternoon but I think it will be good for DH and her to have some Daddy/Daughter time since he misses so much during the week.

I just realized this More Milk Plus stuff is only going to last me two weeks. Ugh.

@Smurfette: How much is in yours? You bought it off Amazon, right? How much did it cost?

@Smurfette: Bleck, too much! I paid $20 for 2oz!!! Guess I'll be ordering from Amazon for my next batch!

@Adira: Wow! That is a lot more. Crazy!

DH is so cute. He just im'd me to see if he could take R and meet a friend for lunch on Sat. I told him I didn't care what he did with her as long as she is fed, diaper changed and naps when I am at lunch. Of course I didn't tell him but I will be nervous. It will be the first time he takes her out, besides to Home Depot, when she slept the whole time.

@travellingbee: I am sorry yall are having a rough morning. I will say when Moms say something like this is when I am happy R doesn't like the pacifier. So hard when they are playing and just starting crying and you have no idea why.

@Adira: He can get it into his mouth sometimes, but this morning he was putting it in sideways. And yes, he often throws it and then gets upset at that too. LOL He is indeed very dramatic this past week.

@Smurfette: They run a little small but not too much. Gap runs big, I find. He can still wear 3-6 in some GAP and Janie and Jack. Gerber runs very small. Narrow.

@travellingbee: She wears 3-6 GAP dresses, only one is really too big. I haven't tried the pants yet. I need to see if the Gymboree and Crazy 8 bottoms will fit yet.

@Adira: We go on the 1st. Fingers crossed. I was going to weigh myself and then her but decided not too, cause it would just stress me out.

@travellingbee: hopefully he goes back to his happy self. Isaac fights sleep too, his eyes will be closing and he forces them open or even shakes his head to wake himself up.

@Smurfette: Saturday will be good. Hope you have lots of fun.

Well last night was the best in the last week. He nursed at 8 and was asleep at 9. He woke up to nurse at 12, 2:30, 4:30 and then 7am which is when he got up. And he didn't wake up in between times to nurse which he had been doing. Now we can go back to working on dropping a feeding or two at night.

What stroller is everyone using? Right now we are using the Snap n Go frame one but I was just thinking in a one and half DH could take her running. Seriously time is flying by!! He wants the Bob, just have to look for the best deal.

@Adira: I want to use the frame stroller till 6 months or so. Cause what do you do if she falls asleep in the car now I can just move the seat in the stroller and she stays asleep. But if I have to get her out of the seat, then she will wake up.

Girls, my baby is going to be 5 months tomorrow. He's growing up so fast!!!!

@Adira: already??? They are growing up so fast.
@ALV91711: yay for a nap!!

@Smurfette: We are using the chicco keyfit caddy with our seat - I really want a BOB (in my head a imagine the three of us going for a jog around the lake often) It is just so hard to justify spending the money when I don't know if we would use it as much as planned.

@Adira: They are growing so fast!!! I want to use our infant seat as long as possible too - but I already think he's getting so heavy (or maybe I just need to get stronger)

@ALV91711:Yay for a nap (for both of you!)

@travellingbee: what do you consider raspberries? My family calls it when you sort of blow on someone's belly and it makes a funny noise...

@Smurfette: but my family also calls that raspberries. same noise but not on belly!

@travellingbee: Sounds like a Wonder Week thing - fussy when they are learning new things? Sorry you had a rough morning.
Awesome on the raspberries thing! IDK if K does that yet? We do raspberries on her belly, and she always makes bubbles. But I don't think any "flatulent sounds" yet with the bubbles?

@Smurfette: Sounds like you have an awesome Saturday lined up! Let us know how DH does on his own? Mine has never taken her out of the house on his own yet!

As for clothes sizing, it's so ridiculous. Vanity sizing for babies? For example, today K wore a NB dress, which is still huge on her; 3-6 leggings; and a Carters 3mo pajamas.

We have the UppaBaby Vista stroller. Still using the car seat, but I think I've hear most people start using the actual seat ~5-6 months, which is coming up soon! I'm going to get the B.O.B. when she's ~ 6 months.

@Adira: Does the Mother's Milk make you smell funny? I'm sick of the Fenugreek smell.

@dojo: Seriously! I was thinking of just leaving the car seat in the car from now on. It's getting tough to move her in/out of the house!

So K has started rolling in her crib now. I tried putting her in there for a nap today and she ended up on her tummy. No crying, but no sleeping either. And one of her feet were between the slats. We're still having trouble finding a good nap routine, besides me wearing her. Praying tonight will be OK and no rolling in her sleep. Got to put on the mesh crib bumper!

@Smurfette: What are you doing for nap training?

@shopaholic: I'm trying to get Isaac to nap without being held. We had one successful nap today in his bed, the first one didn't happen because I put him in his bed and the third he had to be held.

@travellingbee: Blowing raspberries in purpose would be so cute.

We were in bed at 9 for the night again, two nights in a row. Now I'm just hoping for less wakeups in the night and I'll be happy.

@ALV91711: How long does Isaac nap for each time?

Ladies, I'm SO TIRED today! K's naps looked like this:
* Woke-up at 10 am.
* Fell asleep for 5 min, at 1:30, woke-up for 8 min., fell back asleep for 13 min.
* Around 3:30, napped for 23 min. in the car.
* Then I spent ~ 3 hours trying to get her to nap at home. Crying, screaming, inconsolable. I knew she was tired, but even trying to nurse her made it worse. Took at 22 min. nap (finally at 8:00) on the boob because I was finally able to nurse her lying down in bed.

What do you guys do for "nap cues?" If I shut the curtains or dim lights, she gets mad (except for at her bedtime). She HATES the dark it seems. The white noise doesn't work anytime but bedtime either. She just gets furious. Like even when I had to change her diaper today, and I took her in her room (white noise was on and the curtains were closed) and she was so angry and upset! She got better as soon as we went back out to the living room with the lights on. The swing pissed her off today and even though she was strapped in, she was trying to roll and arch her back so much and crying, I couldn't let her stay in it. The bouncy chair is officially retired after she can wiggle her entire body off the ledge and managed to loosen one of the screws till it came off yesterday! It's just so frustrating trying to get her to nap when it takes so long and she seems to have a 20 minute timer. I KNOW I need to get her to be able to nap in her crib and I think a schedule will be good, but honestly, I'm at a total loss. She seems to get pissed at all my attempts at home to get her to sleep. And it ends up taking so long, I can't seem to follow any schedule.