Mattress thumper

Ryan was a mattress thumper when he was a baby. In other words, he would lay in his crib at night and pull his legs up and then slam them down on the mattress...over and over and over again...until he fell asleep. LOL. I thought this gene skipped Brooke and was pretty thankful since she is my "roommate" for the unforeseeable future and the thumping was annoying enough with Ryan hearing it from another room of the house ; ). But alas, she has started just within the last week. She doesn't do it all the time, but last night I woke to her stirring around 4:30am. I got up and gave her blanket to her because she couldn't find it since she was laying on top of it on her back. Then I laid back down and she started thumping, lol. It seemed to go on forever and I could not fall back to sleep and was ready to go strap her legs down ; ). LOL. Here's hoping this phase doesn't last long!

I'll post some cute pics I took of her this morning : ).

Feeling better

Ryan and Brooke are both mostly over their colds. Brooke had 3 rough nights (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday), but the last 2 nights slept straight through : ). Her formula intake is down a little. Hoping it picks back up when the cold is completely gone.

Her newest thing is blowing raspberries. That's what I woke up to yesterday morning at 7am : ). She was laying in her crib, just blowing away. LOL. As I type this, she is on the floor behind me playing, blowing raspberries.

Not crawling yet, but she has really mastered sitting up on her own! She is also constantly getting up on her knees at things. It's made it so nice the last couple of days now that she can get up at some of her toys instead of laying there pitching a fit for you to help her up. LOL. Yes, she used to do that alllll the time!

She has a "toy corner" in the living room where all her toys "live". (Ryan's things are mostly in the dining room....yes, our downstairs looks like Toys'R'Us, lol.) Yesterday she managed to dump her toy basket.

And yes, she thought it was funny and was very pleased with herself! ; )

This morning as I started typing this (had to save it and come back to it), she was "getting in to" Ryan's toys in the dining room. One of his 2 sets of bowling pins...she loves his bowling pins almost as much as he does, I think. I see many fights between them in the future over those! LOL. That baseball toy beside her tush Ryan has had since he was about 18 months old! And he still plays with it! See all those things leaning up against the toy box? Those are ALL golf clubs @@. Two of them we got at a yardsale over the summer. Another two are from Gator Golf, which he just *had to have and has hardly played with. And the other two are from a Little Tikes golf set that he just got last month in replacement of a Christmas present we returned. I guess I better just learn to accept that we have a little jock on our hands ; ). LOL.

Soooo close...

Brooke is thisclose to crawling! The past 2 days she has been getting up on her hands and knees SO much and has even moved a tiny bit. Not what I would call "crawling" yet, but I think by next Saturday she will be! : ) She has also figured out how to get in to a sitting position from the all fours position : ). Go Brooke!

Now she's sick

Ryan started with a cold on Saturday. Nothing major...just a sniffly nose and some sneezing. He didn't even get a cough this time! I was hoping Brooke was going to avoid it this time, but she didn't. She seemed to be sneezing more than usual yesterday (she's a sneezer, lol)...and I was hoping it wasn't a cold settling in. She went to bed at 9 and seemed pretty restless between then and when I went to bed at 10:30. I had just fallen asleep going on 11 and she woke me up. She was fussing and I could hear that she was getting a little stuffy. I tried just giving her blanket to her, but she wanted none of that. So I took her out of her crib and sat on the bed and rocked her. Got her back to sleep and tried laying her back in her crib and she woke right back up. So back on the bed I went with her. I just knew she was not going to stay asleep in her crib, so I tried laying her down in my bed when she went to sleep and again she woke right back up. At this point, I'm thinking, 'Great...the only way she is going to sleep tonight is if I sit up and hold her.' I was thinking about kicking Doug off the couch so I could sit downstairs with her and maybe get some sleep. I held her for a good 20 minutes after she went to sleep and tried laying her down again. This time she stayed asleep. This was around 12:30. She woke back up at 2:30 and I had to sit up with her again. Back down she went around 3:15. She was extremely restless between then and 6 when Ryan woke up...and I didn't get much sleep. She kept waking up, crying and I slept with her from about 4:00 on with her in my arm (sooo not comfy, lol). The funny thing is, she doesn't even seem *that sick. She doesn't sound congested...she's just been sneezing a lot. I was surprised she wouldn't sleep. She usually sleeps okay when she has a cold. She woke around a quarter to 7 and was happy as a clam then. LOL. Of course ; ). Hopefully her cold stays very mild just like Ryan's. Don't want her to lose any of that precious weight she just gained! Not to mention, miserable, sick babies are so sad : (.

YAY for Level 2 bottle nipples!

Ever since we started using the Level 2 nipples for Brooke, she's been drinking about 30oz. a day instead of barely 20oz.! I could tell that she was getting heavier and I haven't had that feeling in a long time because she really has been gaining SO slowly. I was SO excited for her synagis appointment today to see what she weighed because I was expecting a significant gain. On the 14th of last month, she weighed 14lbs. 14oz. I almost jumped up and down when the scale showed 16lbs. today!!! Maybe that's silly to get so excited over something like that, but oh well...that's me. LOL. She gained 1lb. 2oz. in THREE WEEKS! That is so awesome, especially for her : ). I don't know if some of that was just a growth spurt (which she was due for, I think) or if maybe she'll keep gaining that well with drinking so much more...either way, I am THRILLED : ).

Not so thrilling is the fact that she has a yeast diaper rash : P. Last Monday, I think it was, she woke up with a poopy diaper and had a terrible diaper rash. It was sooo red. It was mostly cleared up a couple days later and even now is just about completely gone, except she has some red dots on her "girly parts" that won't go away. So the physician's assistant prescribed Nystatin cream for her. Hopefully that will clear it up quickly!

Wordless Wednesday

My friend Virginia made these for me....isn't she talented? : )

Gotta post it anyway....

My intentions were to post this picture ONLY if the Steelers lost last night. But I think it's cute (does that make me a bad mom? lol)....so I'm posting it anyway!

She was ticked because I took her hairbrush away from her to take her picture!