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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Violet EIGHT months
It has been a BIG month for Violet! She can crawl now (although she still "army crawls" and drags her little legs behind her everywhere). She almost wants to pull up on things already and climb. She sprouted her first two teeth. Her cradle cap is finally gone, she had that stuff forever! Her hair is growing a bit, and is looking pretty red. I don't see any curls though. She babbles and repeats sounds. She is a happy baby, well except for when she's not and then she has quite the loud and saddest cry.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Camping
A couple weeks ago we "went camping". I put that in quatation marks because I am not sure if it counts...
Mark just bought this new (enormous) tent with dreams of many family camping trips. I was off work a few days, so we thought we would try it out at a campground about 45 minutes away. Just for one night. So, we packed up our 8,000 items that it requires to spend the night with our two children in diapers + dog. As we were packing it looked like rain. Now I like camping, but only for a short period of time and NOT in the rain despite Mark assuring me our new expensive tent would keep us dry. We carried on and made it out there after nap time. It started out great. No rain, Harlow ran around finding sticks, Burger was well behaved, we got a great site. Violet even took a little nap in the pack and play inside the tent. We roasted hot dogs and then elected to keep our usual routine of putting the kids to bed between 7:30 and 8 and then Mark and I could have some time to just hang by the fire and drink our cold beers we had in the cooler. So I laid Violet down and well, she cried. We let her cry, all through Harlow's bed time stories and beyond. There was a guy one site over who was looking over in our direction periodically while she wailed. I tried to hold her, feed her, give her paci (all the time knowing that the only way she was going to get to sleep was to cry it out). Typically if she cries at home, it's only for max 10 minutes, so we started to get concerned after 30 or so. Meanwhile Harlow kept popping her head out of the tent. It seemed like eternity, but at about 8:45 (the gate to leave the park closes at 9) we decided to bail. We left all our things there since we were worried if we didn't leave before the gate closed, we would be stuck all night with a wailing baby and a cranky toddler.
It turned out ok though because we went back the next day and went on the little hike to the waterfall we had planned . It the best of both worlds because we went "camping" but slept in our own bed! We just wasted a little driving time...but oh well. The life with two young children!
I am hoping that Violet does a little better sleeping in the comfort of a hotel this weekend since she doesn't have a lot of experience sleeping other places then her own cozy crib.
Mark just bought this new (enormous) tent with dreams of many family camping trips. I was off work a few days, so we thought we would try it out at a campground about 45 minutes away. Just for one night. So, we packed up our 8,000 items that it requires to spend the night with our two children in diapers + dog. As we were packing it looked like rain. Now I like camping, but only for a short period of time and NOT in the rain despite Mark assuring me our new expensive tent would keep us dry. We carried on and made it out there after nap time. It started out great. No rain, Harlow ran around finding sticks, Burger was well behaved, we got a great site. Violet even took a little nap in the pack and play inside the tent. We roasted hot dogs and then elected to keep our usual routine of putting the kids to bed between 7:30 and 8 and then Mark and I could have some time to just hang by the fire and drink our cold beers we had in the cooler. So I laid Violet down and well, she cried. We let her cry, all through Harlow's bed time stories and beyond. There was a guy one site over who was looking over in our direction periodically while she wailed. I tried to hold her, feed her, give her paci (all the time knowing that the only way she was going to get to sleep was to cry it out). Typically if she cries at home, it's only for max 10 minutes, so we started to get concerned after 30 or so. Meanwhile Harlow kept popping her head out of the tent. It seemed like eternity, but at about 8:45 (the gate to leave the park closes at 9) we decided to bail. We left all our things there since we were worried if we didn't leave before the gate closed, we would be stuck all night with a wailing baby and a cranky toddler.
It turned out ok though because we went back the next day and went on the little hike to the waterfall we had planned . It the best of both worlds because we went "camping" but slept in our own bed! We just wasted a little driving time...but oh well. The life with two young children!
I am hoping that Violet does a little better sleeping in the comfort of a hotel this weekend since she doesn't have a lot of experience sleeping other places then her own cozy crib.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Getting along
Harlow has really turned a corner in regards to her baby sister lately! She has been "reading" her books (naming a few things on a page and then saying "THE END!"), making her smile and laugh and just seeming to like having her around lately. She butted in on my latest photo shoot with Violet, and of course she was wearing her pajamas (she LOVES to wear her pjs). I made them black and white to try to distract from the purple striped pajamas in the picture!
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