Erica is going to start coming with me to Parents' Day Out on Mondays, starting tomorrow. It will be an adventure for both of us. For Erica, it will be a long day in a classroom with two teachers and up to five other babies, mostly who have already turned one year old and are walking. For me, I will get to wonder how she's doing and definitely hear her if she cries because her classroom is right across from my office. Yikes. Pray for us, OK?
Well, we trusted our pediatrician and have carried on with sleep training. Erica has really learned to go to bed drowsy and put herself to sleep the rest of the way. Sometimes she can even put herself back to sleep if she wakes up. You notice the word, "sometimes." Other times, like the past two nights, she was woken up shrieking and not been able to put herself back to sleep. Therefore, we, her parents, have helped her. That is how we love her, helping her learn and adjust and get through the hard times.
We just love her soooooooooooooooooo much!
The spoon feeding hasn't been any more exciting. She doesn't seem to really want anything badly enough to work it into a final swallow. Most of the food ends up spit back out or played with in her hands. Maybe she will go straight to finger foods. She loves to put Cheerios in her mouth and sometimes she actually swallows them. Today I tried little chunks of banana (sorry Aunts Laura and Nette) and she thought that was pretty cool.
Another think Erica is working on is rolling over. She doesn't like it. The best that she does is dive off the boppy when she is propped up on it, and then roll herself onto her tummy to try and reach something.
She also love tags. Anything with a tag! The most exciting Christmas toys all over the house, boppy, blankets, anything... she goes for the tag. Yesterday I even propped her up on the boppy tummy side down because she wanted to reach the tag and it helped distract her for a good five minutes.
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