As I was working today, I realized I want more things documented so I am going to try to blog more/journal more, so I'll have plenty to go back and print if I choose for scrapbooking purposes. Soooooo---bare (sp?) with me.
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Ava is getting more and more mobile. She still hasn't rolled over from back to front, BUT I know she could if she really wanted. haha! She started out on her mat in the middle of it and as I am typing she has moved pretty much off of it just by scooting around. She also will roll onto her side to get to things or see things. Won't be long before she'll be mobile!
(Here she is...her mat is the blue thing to the right where she started out). Look out! Here I Come!
- Not only is she infatuated with her own feet, but with this nice weather, I've been going without socks and she is also infatuated with MY feet. She is very intrigued. :-)
- We have been continuing to experiment with foods. She isn't really enjoying anything green too much. She even will CLAMP her mouth shut when you try. She likes green beans more than peas---but peas = NO WAY! I did read on the baby oatmeal box to "Try, try again." It said that it may take up to 15 tries for a baby to accept a new taste. It said to try mixing a new one with one she has already mastered. I did scoop a little green beans under the peaches to sneak them in but she figured that out after a few spoonfuls. She still likes ice cream---my bad! She's only had a tiny little taste, I promise! She will also clamp her mouth shut and bat the bottle away when she's full. It even went flying the other day! oops!
- She has figured out how to stick her tongue out and basically spit, making that fun spitting sound. Pretty funny!
- She is still getting there with the sleeping. The other night she did sleep from 9ish until 6am (9 hours)!!!! WHOHOO! I actually went to bed around 10pm so I got EIGHT FULL HOURS of UNINTERRUPTED sleep! OMGosh! What a great feeling. :-) Travis and I do alternate some nights, so that is nice too. She still isn't consistent and I'm not sure why. The night she did sleep through she took an 8 ounce bottle before bed so we are trying to stick with that. Some nights she takes a 5pm catnap and some nights she doesn't. Anyway, I don't know what to do if she takes say 4 or 6 ounces and then wakes up around 4am or 5am. Do I feed her or not? hmmmm. I'd say she should be able to sleep through for another hour or 2 but I admit, it is sometimes easier just to nurse her back to sleep, plus I second guess myself thinking 'well, maybe she is hungry'. I know it's a habit I guess I'll have to break later---I'm thinking, when I don't have to go to work the next day. The interrupted sleep can be hard but so is being up for an hour at 4am waiting for her to go back to sleep! I also try to take into consideration when she does wake up she has slept for 8 hours and went 8 hours without food and I guess other than my dr. telling me I could cut out the middle of the night feeding at her 4 mo. appointment, I don't know what to really expect of her at 5 months. :)
- A lady I talked to today at the scrapbooking thing said her daughter just had to break her daughter of her middle of the night feeding and that getting her out of the crib might be an option and just rock her back to sleep but get her little tummy used to not having that 4am feeding. She said after about 3 nights she got used to it. I was hesitant to get her out of the crib and rock her for fear that then she'll expect/need that but I guess I could try it to eliminate the feeding and then eliminate the rocking after that.
- I even tried the 'dreamfeeding' the other night. I thought I would just see what would happen. Well, I got her out of her crib (around 11pm after she went to bed around 8:30) and she did not even flinch!!! I was shocked...me picking her up and trying to feed her and NOTHING! haha! I didn't want to actually wake her so I just put her back in the crib. I know in time she'll get there and I'm prepared to deal with it as it comes I guess. :)
