New Stuff

This has been a long week for us.  We hosted Thanksgiving this year, it turned out to be a great time.  I cooked my very first turkey, even boke out the china!  It was a little nerve racking but once it was all said and done, I would do it again anytime.  It is so nice to get all the family together, Wayco and I both have small immediate families so we can combine them and its just the right size.  Plus they all get along pretty good.  Arlee had it made with 3 Grandmas and 3 Grandpas to spoil her at the same time! 

This was the first year I didn't have to work on Black Friday in 6 years, so I went and did a little shopping in Pittsburg and took Arlee with us.  She loves people watching and cruising in her stroller!  There weren't to many good deals for me but I managed to get a few things, it was just mainly nice to be back in Pitt for a while and get to have Mall Deli!! All the people shopping just reminded me that I need to start X-mas shopping ASAP!

Also we had a breakthrough this weekend.  We all got a full nights sleep!! Arlee usually would wake up between 1and 3 am to eat, well she didn't!! She didn't wake up til 6 - 6:30am all 3 nights so far!!  It was so nice to sleep!  I love my sleep and have been waiting and waiting to for her to sleep all night.  We are very much in our routine now.  I always tried to have a routine with her but every few weeks her eating and sleeping would change so we never really had to strict of one.  Now and for the past month she is on a schedule like you wouldn't believe.  Bath by 7:30pm bottle right after and bed no later than 8:15 pm!  Its so nice, well most of the time.  Here is an example of when a routine isn't so nice to have.  We had to get alot at Wal-Mart so we dropped Arlee off at my parents and we got back to get her a few minutes after 7pm she had started fussing and wouldn't stop til we got her home in her bath tub! Man she really knows when its time!!  So we have to plan everything around her bath time, haha.  I am glad to say we hardly ever use the swing anymore, Arlee practically lived in that swing the first 2or 3 months of her life. Now she may go days without it!  No more constantly charging batteries!  She sleeps in her pack-n-play downstairs during the day and in her crib at night.  Things just keep getting better and better!  Now if only we could potty train, haha!

Scared of Strangers

My Grandma watches Arlee at our house when we are away at work, my dad usually stops by every morning to.  So Arlee sees them constantly, my mom watches her on Saturdays while we work and Waycos parents get her every few weeks.  She seems comfortable around all of them, which is great, but the people she doesn't see on a regular basis are startig to scare her!  My Aunt came over yesterday, she had been coming over regularly but has been outta town for a month, Arlee started screaming when she picked her up and wouldn't have anything to do with her!  It broke my Aunt's heart!  Then, my friend Lori came over and went to hold Arlee and she did the same thing, she was screaming!  Lori couldn't stand it and tried to get her to be okay but she just wouldn't.  She was fine if I held her and they would talk to her then she would smile, but if they held her the screaming began.  I don't want this to keep happening, I don't know what to do!

On a good note, she can sit up kinda!  Here are some pics

4 Month Update

Wow, where has the time gone!  Arlee is now 4 months old.  We had her check-up today.  Everything went great, except for the shots.  She hates her shots so much, it makes me so sad to watch them stick her!  So anyway, she is 14lbs 6 oz which is average for her age, 25 1/4 inches which is in the 90%, and her head is 16 3/4 inches which is also in the 90% for her age as well.  We all know she has a huge head.  As far as her development the Dr. said she is doing what a 5 month old is!  That's great, it makes you feel like you are doing a good job when you hear that! We are trying to teach her to eat from a spoon, i mix a little cereal and formula in a bowl.  She doesn't like it and barely eats any, but I figure eventually she will learn. The Dr. gave us the green light to start yellow veggies next month.  I can't wait!  Time for the high-chair!!

PlaYiNg ArOuNd

Arlee is doing this thing where she puckers out her mouth, it cracks me up!  She just started doing it and now she does it all the time.  I managed to snap a few pics of her doing it. 

Better Halloween Pics

Here are some pics from my mom

Crib Talk

Over the past few weeks I have been trying to get Arlee used to sleeping in her crib.  I started putting her down for naps in her crib to get her used to it, then at night I would put her there to but she would last about an hour.  It seemed like we spent the night moving her from crib to swing to our bed, running up and down stairs.  So over the weekend we decided it was only the crib.  The first night she cryed off and on from 11pm til around 3am, I would go in every 5-10 minutes to calm her.  It was hard, I didn't want her to cry.  I almost gave up but I knew it would be worth it in the long run. One thing I am glad we got was the video moniter, it is so nice to see what she is doing so I don't have to go in and check on her, becasue if she sees us she wants us.  She was so tired from all that she took a 4 hour nap the next day, poor thing!!  The next few nights after that were a breeze, no crying at all. She went right to sleep, she would wake up and grunt when her music thing stopped.  So we got an i-pod dock to put in her room, and I made her a playlist to play through the night.  That helped so much, she did even better.  Except she keeps rolling over on her tummy to sleep and it makes me nervous because of the SIDS risk.  I just go in and roll her over.  I don't know what else to do to stop her.  We are very proud of her for being a big girl and sleeping all night in her crib finally!!  If only we could do without the 12am feeding!!


Heres a pic of Halloween, we got all dressed up and momma forgot to put the battery in the camera, so all I got was a cell phone pic.  I will have to get the ones my mom took!  She was a bear, she hated her hat after like 2 minutes!