Friday, March 17, 2006

So cute.


"Baby, baby, open your mouf!" Tha's our nephew Simon being our little helper and doing binky patrol. He'd sit next to Abby and just wait for her to spit it out so he could put it back in. Too cute!

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Handsy Morrow

Well, she's found her hands! Her left specifically, which has become her new fvorite chew toy and eye rubber. She crams that fist in her mouth and gnaws like mad, and the few times she's managed to get just her thumb in there (usually it's clamped tightly in her fist) she hasn't been too impressed. Given the fact that her pacifiers all have nipples much bigger than her thumb, I guess that's not surprising. And she rubs her eye with such vehemence I'm afraid she's going to shove her cornea right off. I wonder if she'll be left-handed like me, since that seems to be the one she favors right now. My mom is left-handed, too, maybe Abby will keep up the trend.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Yawn

In the immortal words of The Barenaked Ladies:

"Who needs sleep?
Well, you're never gonna get it.
Who needs sleep?
Tell me, who's that for?!"

Remember how Abby had that great eight hour stretch of sleep last week? Well, apparently she used up all her sleepiness then, because she's been back to eating every 2.5 hours (sometimes just 2) in the middle of the night for the last 4 nights. I know I really have nothing to complain about, because this is just what babies do and in everything else she's so incredibly easy, but still, this isn't what I'm used to--she was so good with those 5 and 6 hour stretches! Where did they go?! And if she was totally chowing down every time, that would be fine, but she goes for five minutes if I'm lucky and then falls back asleep. I think she's using me more as a pacifier than a food source. I've read about something called the Miracle Blanket on babycenter.com, and I think I'm goig to look into getting one--everyone who posts about it on my birth club board there absolutely loves it and says their baby started sleeping through the night the first time they used it. It's a special swaddling blanket that holds them really securely, and since she wiggles out of regular blanket swaddles now, I think we need something like that. Because, when you wake up not knowing why you're lying down because you were so sure you were still nursing, you know you need more sleep. :)