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This highchair is awesome, it has wheels and you pretty much get dragged all over the house in it. It is with the thought that 'this stage won't last forever' that I give you tonight's blog entry my dear. Tonight it is all about how we put you to sleep (and most naps actually) at about 7 months.
Somewhere in the 8-9pm range you start to act sleepy, ie. you try to eat any part of mommy flesh that comes near you and you start getting persnickety and rubbing your eyes. So we head up to bed, make sure you are dressed in a little playsuit that covers you from wrist to toe and that you have a clean diaper and soaker in. (At this point if you are really tired you start getting hysterical and we have to wrestle you into said clothing while you protest greatly and the tears that roll down your face pool in your ears. If we are both involved, someone is changing you while the other is 'preparing your chamber'.
This includes:
Closing the curtains
Turning on the noise machine
Turning on the nightlight
Turning on both the visual(upstairs) and the audio (downstairs) monitors
and turning on the heating pad, making sure to drape the cord over the edge and onto the ottoman
Mommy and me
THe first in a series of self portraits, they are so cute that despite Mommy sporting no makeup and often more than one chin, here they are for all to see! Then Mommy wraps you in a blanket and sits down in the glider to feed you to sleep. Sometime this happens in minutes, sometimes it take almost an hour. Sometimes lately Mommy doesn't have the capacity and we need to call in bottle reinforcements. As soon as you are drifting off Mommy grabs the cord to the heating pad with her toes and pulls the heating pad out from where you sleep and over the side of the crib and then turns it off. All with her toes mind you. Then she gets up slowly and carries you over to the crib where she deposits you gently and then immediately drops to the floor beside your crib in the event that you wake up and need to cry/fuss just a bit before you actually drift off. Seeing Mommy at this point would be terrible, because you would realize you COULD still be eating and snuggly nestled next to her. So there I sit, crouched on the floor until your breathing becomes slow and regular and I know you are asleep. Unless of course this stage doesn't occur, in which case we call in the Daddy reinforcements. Mommy then tags
Now I will eat Mommy's face
while simultaneously picking her nose! out and Daddy plucks you (screaming usually) out of the crib and rocks you to sleep. For some reason it is easier for Daddy to rock you to sleep. Presumably you know he has no capacity to feed you.
Now, this may seem like a ridiculous and complex arrangement, BUT for the most part you then sleep until 8 or 9 am if we are lucky. If we are slightly less lucky maybe until 5 or 6 then Mommy gets up and gives you a snack after which you immediately drift off for another 3 or 4 hours. It also seems much less ridiculous when we hear what some of our friends have to go through to get kids to sleep through the night. Plus, at some point it will change again, as it is now different from when you were, say, 4 months old. Ah change. It's the one thing you can count on😊
So most of the pictures speak for themselves. I will say that Mother's Day was lovely. Daddy made breakfast of Granny pancakes with strawberries and chocolate and powdered sugar. We talked to Grandma and Grandad and Auntie Binky and Uncle Ken on Skype
for a bit and you (eventually) showed them how well you are rolling over and wandering around these days. Then we scooted off to mass and you were talkative so we headed back to the crying room at St. Margaret's. Then home and a quick change and meal before we headed out to visit with Gr. Grandma at Suzie's house. We saw Dave and Angie and Tom and Elisa and Ethan as well as Suzie and Gr. Grandma. It was a great time😊 After that we headed out to see Gr Granny Tom, Lori, and Mike. We had a nice dinner and played for a while including the always exciting game of 'what year was this episode of 'Lawrence Welk' filmed. Oh! I almost forgot. We did travel complete with Aunt Anne to the Gr. Gran's houses. She was your seat partner in crime.
As for the dusting picture. Well, Mommy has found yet another way for you to be helpful around the house. In addition to beating up any recipe ingredients that need to be pulvarized you are quite good at collecting dust bunnies when properly attired. I just place you in an outfit with attached feet and
let you crawl where you will. Inevitably you find some long forgotten or unreachable spot and collect all of the dust. Then Mommy just picks you up, stips you of your dusty layer and reclothes you😊 I prefer to think of it as a testiment to my ingenuity and not evidence of my poor housekeeping.
As for the pictures from the Lost party (we use the term loosely, because we had an all time attendance high of 7 this time, two of which had to leave early to go to bed) we had a great time! Due to the setting of this season we had a 70's theme to the party. Unfortunately we were too busy eating and baby juggling later in the evening to take pictures of the food. The feast included quiche, a cocktail weenie roast(speared 'lil smokies stuck into a half head of cabbage and toasted over a sterno can imbedded in said cabbage head), jello mold (complete with fruit pieces and marshmellows suspended therein) and, obviously, fondue. Like a fool I thought towards the end of the night when we were stuffed that perhaps we should nix the fondue, but people attacked it like ravenous
wildebeasts when I brought it out. We also played a rousing game of Lost Bingo, compliments of Alyssa, who came dressed as Kate in her motorpool outfit. Mommy provided us with essay questions, some of which were actually answered with flair during the episode. Namely 'What the heck happened to Bernard and Rose?'
For now you are asleep, so I will bid you adieu. Love you!!
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