schwei-town: March 2015

This is one of those things I shouldn't even post because the situation will go awry as soon as I make it publicly known...but I feel like I should document this moment in life. So here I go, risking my entire family's sleep....

Soph moved into Aiden's room Saturday night. First night was so-so, with her waking up in the middle of the night and us having to get her, which woke him up so fussing ensued. Sunday night the girl wouldn't sleep for anything so we took her out of there 10-15 after they laid down and she spent the night in the pack and play. But last night....well maybe I should just show you the pictures I woke up to this morning.

Yup, that's them, sleeping in the same room, starting out their roommate life. It's been wonderful for Aiden, because he adores having her in there so he goes to bed almost right away, without fussing and in his bed....it's been weeks, nearly a month actually, since he slept in bed.

Will this continue? Probably not since I posted all this....but at least you got to see cute/creepy pics of my kids snoozing.

Am I about to post Sophia's 5 month picture, knowing we will take her 6 month picture in a week? You betcha. These pictures were actually taken when she turned 5 months old....I'm just three weeks behind in getting a post up. But, at least it's making it on the blog, right?

Everyone started telling me she looked grown up this month and
not like a baby anymore. (tear. actually, multiple tears.)

Yes, she still falls over. Yes, she adores her feet. And, despite what
the first picture indicates, she loves to smile and laugh, though she
has a serious face much of the time as well.

Little Miss tilted the scales at 11 lbs, 9 oz when we went for a weight check earlier this month. The on-call doctor (who made me a less-than-happy momma) said it was time to start supplementing because Soph had dropped into the 3rd percentile so we did add a little something to her diet - real food! Aiden was so not ready for food when we started it at 6 months. So not ready. He pushed everything back out, but Sophia was more than ready at 5 months. She gobbled it up like she'd been waiting for this moment all her little life. She started on plain oatmeal (blah), then had some steel cut oats, made the way mommy likes (yum!) and moved on to avocado, sweet potato and then applesauce this weekend. Applesauce is one of Aiden's favorite foods so I braced myself to buy stock in it, thinking Sophia would also fall in love with it. Not so much. Ryan has the pictures on his phone with her delightful faces....I'll try to remember to get one and post it next time. Aiden liked pretty much everything so it was hilarious to us to watch a kid not like a food.

We figured if Soph was going to eat big kid food, she might as well enjoy a big kid seat too so we got down the exersaucer for her and she loves it! I think that girl is going to take off running the moment she figures out how to stand up. She is not the sit-contentedly-in-your-lap baby....nope, she's a squirmer, always wanting to be down and wiggling. This is perhaps why she didn't prefer the swing or little lamb chair that Aiden lived in as a baby. She just wants to move. All that moving has resulted in her covering plenty of ground with her rolls this last month.

I laid her in front of those two open door, feet towards the bathroom
tiles. This is where she wriggled herself to a few minutes later.

Aiden Bo-baiden, as he now refers to himself (as a result of the song Aiden, Aiden, bo-baiden, banana, nana, fo-faiden....Like a good mother, I sang it to him, he thought it was hilarious, and now he is confident that he is Aiden Bo-baiden. I'll say things like "hey goofy" to which he will reply "I'm not goofy, I'm Aiden Bo-baiden.") So yeah, side story that resulted in a sentence fragment. I will try again.

Aiden Bo-baiden has left his bed for the ever-so-comfortable floor and has been hanging out there for a few weeks. He went through a bit of a "scare" thinking we were gone when we closed the door and cried a lot of tears for a good week before I figured out what was going on. During this time, he also insisted there were bugs in his bed so I thought this new fear of bugs was the culprit for the crying. We changed the sheets, inspected together for bugs, gave him "bug spray" (i.e. small squirt bottle with water), snuggled in bed together....but all to no avail. The floor it is. At bedtime he needs a little reassurance that we are still outside the door....and then he cuddles himself up a few feet from it and goes to sleep (usually after a good long bit of wandering around his room). Nap time may look a bit different too.....more like an hour+ of room time, sometimes pulling every items out of every drawer before crashing and snoozing for an hour or two. They say sleep patterns change when big developmental milestones are coming, and that's held true in the past. I'm hoping this milestone is rock-your-world awesome....because our world is currently being rocked in less preferable ways. Cheers to the toddler years!