Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Daycare day 1 recap

Thank God she's only going 2 days this week. That's all I really need to say. I know that when she finally does go full time it'll get easier as she gets used to it, and this sporadic use of daycare is probably not the easiest thing on her, but man was she a mess when I saw her.
She did nap better than last time which was great (two naps of about an hour each).
She did not eat well though, she only had about half of her bottles during the day. And apparently cried on and off throughout the day. (her eyes were puffy when I finally got to her).
Once I picked her up, she was happy, but as soon as we got to the car, when I tried to put her in her seat, she threw a fit and didn't want me to put her down. She kept arching her back and trying to get out of the car seat...it took me around 5 mins to get her in. Normally not that difficult.
Thankfully once she was in, she calmed down, and we drove home. By the time we got home, she was all smiles and my happy baby was back.
Lilo and Stitch greeted us at the door, and that set Naomi off in a round of giggles.
Lilo left us a little extra gift with a big puddle of pee on the floor. Sigh. love that dog though.
Austin worked til after midnight, so I spent the night taking care of naomi, cleaning up dog pee, cleaning all of naomi's bottles and getting her milk ready for daycare. etc etc. rough long night, after a rough long day at work.
One thing I do love about Naomi going to daycare is that I get to pick out her outfits for the day. Something I don't get to do normally when I'm at work. Each evening Naomi and I go through her closet and lay out her clothes for Austin to dress N in the next morning.

Here's the outfit from yesterday. I need to find a job where I can just dress babies for a living.

Back to dread-care, I mean day-care

A month has passed and Austin's mom and sister left us this weekend.  With my mom and dad not coming back until Tuesday night, we're going to put Naomi back in day-care for 2 days.  Hopefully things will go smoother, she won't cry as much, she won't get sick this time, maybe she'll even nap while she's there (somehow I doubt it).  

We had a great month with nai-nai and gu-gu, (that's Mom Wei and Stacey to you).  Already the house seems so empty!

In Naomi developments - she's growing a mouthful of teeth, in addition to the 4 she already has, at least 3 more are coming in on top, and 2 or 3 more on the bottom. 

- she's can get up on her hands and knees as of this afternoon.  She even crawled one step on her knees (albeit she went backwards, but hey it counts).  

- we moved her crib down to the lower level, she looks teeny tiny in her crib now.  It's kind of silly, but I was a little weepy eyed when we lowered the mattress.  She's no longer a newborn!

Another playdate

We met up for a short playdate with Josiah. After not wanting to nap during the day, Naomi fell asleep in the car on our way over, and in true Naomi fashion slept through the beginning of the playdate. Finally we decided to wake her up since Josiah and hi mom and dad would be going back to Syracuse the next day and it'd be months before we get to see them again. It was cute to see them interact. Josiah was fascinated by Naomi and we were almost thinking he'd learn to crawl as he tried to reach for Naomi. There was a lot of staring, grabbing, sock stealing, toy stealing, almost biting and rolling into each other...Naomi was more than cranky and I had to sit next to her the whole time or she started crying. Regardless it was a good time, and I can't wait to June til we get to go visit them in Upstate NY!

mini-me

Finally eating!!

We started introducing solids to Naomi right after Thanksgiving. She's been slow to warm to the experience, that is of course with the exception of Cheerios. This child could eat Cheerios until they came out of her ears...Needless to say, her dislike of food has hampered our efforts to help her put on more weight.
Anyhoo, over the past couple of days, Naomi's finally been eating more of her solids (yummy homemade purees of sweet potatoes, string beans, apples etc). She's also started drinking more milk during the day while I'm at work! yay. Hopefully when we take her to her doctor's appointment in a couple of weeks, we'll have bulked her up so she can move out of the 5th percentile!!

Playdate

Yesterday Gene and Jaime came over with their daughter Alli who's 5 wks older than Naomi. This is probably the 4th time or so that we've gotten together with our kids, but it's the first time that they even cared that the other was there! They smiled at each other, ate cheerios with each other, stole toys from each other, tried to touch each other's hands, and even tried to poke each other in the eye. Definitely a big change from our first playdate where Naomi literally slept the whole time they were here (despite being passed around from person to person).

From Naomi 8 mths

From Naomi 8 mths

From Naomi 8 mths

From Naomi 8 mths

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