First off, doesn't she look cute in this onsie? Betty Poop. Thanks Auntie H.
So, side sleeping is going to be saved for naps and if she happens to roll herself there. She doesn't mind the position at all (so it appeared), but she has been waking up earlier and then night before last she woke up at 3am where I popped a soother in her mouth and she was happy until 5am when I fed her and put her back down until 9am. This is so unlike her and I noticed that she was also stirring a ton more since the position change. So I did a test as I wanted to make sure she wasn't getting up because of hunger pains...last night she was back on her back with her head turned to one side and she slept from 9:30pm - 8:15am...not a peep. She woke up gabbing not crying so back to the back it is!! She is napping right now on her side so it is good for short bursts I guess.
Feeding her has become somewhat of a challenge for some reason. She pulls off at about the half way mark (say 3 oz.) and gets burped and then she will not want to re-latch for some reason. This is bringing back terrible memories of my nursing days...same thing happened then. Suck...Suck...Suck....pull off and freak. :-( I gave her tempra for her last bottle and she took it much better than the ones throughout the day...could it be teeth??? Today she is doing better but the last bottle I had to give her a longer break (about 15 min) and then she drank the last half of the bottle no problem. Weird. She is on a faster flowing nipple as I thought that she was getting frustrated with how slow the other one was. Who knows.
I guess she is in a playing strange phase right now with people...booooooo. My friend took one of my pups to the Vet for me and when he dropped him off he came in to see Kailey and she smiled at first then when he got closer out came the lip. He picked her up and she was OK at first then started to cry. Yikes!!! When Jack was barely home for one week due to work she played strange with him a little bit too...I guess this is a stage most infants go through although not until later apparently.
She can sit on her own for 3-5 seconds now. The harder the surface the better, the bed is still too soft but she has a blast tipping over. Her crib is more firm so we practice there.
She is starting to roll from her tummy to her back...looks hilarious and she huffs and puffs and even grunts but the first time she did it she was totally impressed with herself. :-) This may have been a fluke the first 2 times as she hasn't wanted to today at all.
Her hair is growing enough that she wakes up with bed head!!
It has become apparent that I must leave the house on a regular basis to keep my sanity. A couple of days cooped and I am a total head case. Today I packed up the little one with a few toys (she loves to hold on to things now) and we headed off to Wal-Mart and then to the mall. Instead of using the shopping carts I brought her stroller along, as we were not getting anything major...do I ever prefer doing that rather than lugging her into the store and trying to find a cart that undoubtedly will have something wrong with it. I found a nice flannel sheet for the playpen...an actual fitted playpen sheet. She has all her naps in there now so I wanted a way to make it more cozy and to protect the mattress from any spit ups since you can only sponge clean it. :-(. Zellers is carrying mostly HBC (Best Beginnings and Carters are my fav's) items it is my favorite place to shop for Kailey's pj's. I found the sweetest sleeper than has Princess Frogs all over and the feet are frog heads that each have a little crown applique sticking up...very cute. Oh yeah....Kailey's new trick when we are shopping is to reach her hands out of the bucket and grab whatever she can on the way by. 
She has easy access to do this when she is in the stroller as she is lower and the side are open. She grabs mitt fulls of clothes off the racks. She ended up with some sort of bib type thing in the bucket and I had no idea where it came from. She must have pulled it in when I wasn't looking. What is disgusting though is the fact that EVERYTHING goes in her mouth so I have to really watch for two reason....I don't want to be accused of shoplifting and I don't want Kailey munching on some germ infested item...yuck. I almost forgot...I picked up Kailey a one piece finding Nemo bathing suit and some swimmer diapers since we may be going swimming...if I find the courage that is. Her cousin Robbie loves it and it is another way to get out of the house. I really wish Heather and I could go together. :-( She looves her baths so maybe this would be a hit too. She has the sweetest bikini from Old Navy (thanks Heather for picking up some summer clothes for her) but it will be too big until Summer...then look out....it has ruffles on the bottom and the top is a halter style.....very baby chic...hahahaha. You know I will be putting her in this as soon as it is washed and you all will be seeing the pictures. ;-) I cannot wait. She is totally crashed out from all the excitement today. I managed to have an hour and a half nap with her today so I feel much better. I am still having some sleepless nights for whatever reason. Moving the monitor where I can hear her breathe back into the room seems to help some. I think I became so used to her sleeping next to me in the bassinet that I use her breathing as my 'grey noise'. The best sleeps I have is when she is next to me in the playpen or if she is in bed withe me....I crash without a problem at all. Last night I got up at 2am and stayed up until 6am...not good. This must be some sick joke...I am lucky enough to have a baby that sleeps through the night and I now develop Insomnia issues?! I'll wake up and my heart is racing and I cannot catch my breath and then my brain turns on and that is it...I am stuck tossing and turning or staring at the ceiling. I am hoping my Doctor can shed some light on this issue as I have a check up in a couple months along with Kailey's 6 mth appointment.
She is now having her baths at the infant/toddler side of the tub. Since she can sit up quite well I think she is ready for this. You can tell by the pictures she is thrilled with this 'upgrade'. Just wait until I upgrade her to the big tub...WOW!
I took these pictures a few minutes ago. Both of my girls snoozing and both of them suckling?!
Today's cereal adventure went really well. She managed to swallow a couple of spoonfuls this time but still looooves blowing raspberries. I love our morning routine. I get up before her so I can get ready somewhat. I wait anxiously for her to get up and when I hear the first babble I am in there saying good morning. I am almost always greeted with a HUGE smile and copious quantity of conversation. I feed her the bottle and whatever is left we use to make some cereal. She had the exact same conversation today with all the squeals and everything like the video. She likes to chit chat while the spoon is in her mouth. Then I bathe her and by that time she is ready for a power snooze (usually 2 hours). I figured out a better way to hold her while I feed her and she, so far, has done much better today...more content and more willing to take more. I think the way I was holding her was putting some pressure on her head she didn't like. Now I kind of face her a little out rather than toward me and her long limbs just fall comfortably rather than all tight. Who knows. She is back eating like she was before. She had 27 oz. yesterday and 1 tsp of cereal with an oz. of formula (not sure how much she actually ate but I do know she managed to get some on her toes. I cannot wait for Summer to come...imagine all the pretty little summer dresses?! WOW. Jack picked out some really nice ones when he was in California for work before she was born. They all have matching diaper covers/panties. Very sweet. She finally can touch the floor in her Jumperoo so the towel is gone and she had a blast. She is completely sprawled out in her crib napping she worked so hard.
I can thank Zoe for helping Kailey with her sitting. Zoe rests her big head on the edge of the bed and Kailey manages to get her balance by staring and leaning toward her. Zoe is just hoping she falls toward her so she can lick her so she waits patiently.
Her videos can be found in the photo bucket site under Videos (funny that...hahaha).
All was very quiet this afternoon at the Ruggiero house. Everyone, except myself, took a nap at the same time. You could hear a pin drop which is very strange for this household. As you can see from this picture it is obvious why she wasn't a fan of side sleeping. This is her favorite sleep position. She seems to be turning her head more too so that is good.
She sure was gabbing this morning - for two hours straight to be exact. She is making all sorts of new noises that are hilarious now. I think she is calling me in her own sort of way too. I was in the kitchen washing bottles and I could hear her talking and then it got loud....squeal...pause...squuuueallll...pause. In her way it was a mommy call. I came to the living room and she resumed babbling at a normal volume. I guess she wanted to talk to me about why she was a pain with her bottles yesterday. lol She is enjoying tummy time a lot more now. She is getting stronger by the day.
