Phoebe went to daycare for a full day again on Friday and seemed to have a great time. When I picked her up, she was sound asleep and getting some snuggles. They said she had a good day on Friday, but she has been kind of fussy all weekend. We think that she must really like daycare and is a little frustrated to be stuck with the "amateurs" all weekend. Sadly, I think I jinxed us by talking up Phoebe's new sleep habits. Lately she has regressed to two middle of the night feedings. One around 11 or so and then one around 3 or 4. At least this weekend she has slept in a bit, so we're not having to get our day started at 5:30!
Bedtime is still pretty consistently between 7 and 8. Phoebe loves bath time, so we use a nightly bath to break up the evening fussies - usually around 6:30 or so. After bath and jammies we let her play until she gets tired. Then it is time to get swaddled and read stories. Some time in the middle of stories she'll start to get fussy again - then Jeremy works his magic to get her to sleep and down for the night. We've started running the fan at night to provide a little white noise and that seems to help her sleep a little better. Here are a couple of pictures from story time on Friday: (thank you Grandma Joyce for all of the books! Phoebe really likes them - especially Brown Bear - I think Jeremy and I both have that one memorized now)
Saturday I volunteered to judge a robotics competition, so Jeremy had Phoebe all day from 8:30 - 2:30. When I got home, he was a little frazzled - he had planned to make it to Trader Joe's to get our groceries for the week, but ended up home all day. Like I said, Phoebe was pretty fussy all weekend. To his credit though, Jeremy did get a bunch of laundry done and the bathrooms cleaned. He also only needed a little break from the fussbudget before he was back to his regular self. Saturday night we went for an early dinner with our friends Sathya and Leslie at the local deli. Luckily that place is almost never crowded and they are very tolerant of the occasional baby outburst. It is nice to feel like we can have a little bit of a life - even if we do have to make dinner plans for 4:30 PM. Here is Phoebe responding to our request that she be on her best behavior at dinner:
The other exciting thing that happened on Friday, was Phoebe's new bouncy chair came in the mail. When we were in Maryland, Phoebe borrowed her cousin Nathan's bouncy chair and she LOVED it. Jeremy and I were a little skeptical at first because it is one of those bouncy chairs that includes lights and music (to this point we were pretty anti-toys that have lights and music), but like I said Phoebe LOVED it. After watching her be entertained by the chair over and over, we decided we would get her one when we got back to California. Of course, Fisher Price no longer makes the right model and the newer ones that we checked out at Babies R Us were not as nifty. Luckily, we found the exact same chair on eBay:
You can see that Phoebe really likes her new toy! From the parental perspective the great thing about this particular chair is that there is a volume control on the music! Also, it is kind of neat - there are sensors by her feet and she has to kick to activate the lights and music. And, (this is where we forfeit our shot at parents of the year) it is really nice that she can self-entertain for at least 15 minutes in this thing! Not that we don't enjoy spending every minute of the day with our super-special little snowflake, but every once in a while we at least need a potty break ...
Phoebe is getting really good at grabbing things (and shoving them in her mouth). This weekend she has also been working on her kicking skills and figuring out her feet in general. She has started kicking at the little animals on her jungle gym:
Right now she is trapped in a battle to the death with the little monkey. She grabs onto the little ring but then gets supremely frustrated when she can't get the monkey into her mouth. Jeremy is taking pity on her and bending the side of the jungle gym down so she can get in a couple of good monkey chomps.
Hope everyone had a great weekend! Welcome to April!
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