Our week is going okay. Elsie came down with a cold. Poor baby! She is snotty, coughing and congested. I bought some saline drops for her nose, hopefully that helps. I got the cold symptoms yesterday and Reagan developed the illness overnight. I think Katya is getting it too but it is a bit hard to tell with our little hypocondriac. Needless to say we are laying low today. My mastitis is clearing up nicely with help from the homeopathic medication. It amazes me how well that stuff works.
Elsie has done pretty well this week. She had great naps on Monday. I try to plan our outings so that she can get a nap in, strapped to me in a baby carrier. Therefore, I have to plan on being in one place for over an hour. After her morning nap, we went to the library, the post office, out to lunch and to a park in the St. John's neighborhood. It was pretty fun; we were able to park and then walk everywhere. Elsie slept for 2 hours in the Moby wrap. Yesterday it took two hours to get her down for her morning nap and then she only slept for 30 minutes. So I put her in the Moby and took the kids to the park. We came home, had lunch and I put the girls down for rest time all while Elsie slept. She was out for 2.5 hours in the Moby! It was not the easiest for me, having her straped to me the whole time, but I was happy she was sleeping. At this point, I don't care where she sleeps! As long as she sleeps for at least an hour, I count it as a decent nap (her naps are usually around 2-3hrs). After this good nap, she went back down for about 3.5 hours. The evenings have still been rough but I am usually able to get her settled down in my arms between 9-10pm. She has not let us put her down in the evenings in quite some time. It is amazing the difference between a rested baby (good nap day) and a tired baby (bad day). You can really tell. She is giving us lots of great smiles after she eats. She is still doing well at tummy time. She rolled tummy to back again; twice yesterday and twice so far today! Most babies don't do this til 3 months.
Last week I finally got the girls to the dentist. Reagan's first visit being right on time (age 2), but it was also Katya's first visit which was long overdue. I felt less bad about it after the visit in which all they did with Reagan was count her teeth and put a little fluoride treatment on. I know the idea is just to get them use to the dentist at this age but that would have been kind of pointless with Katya. She does great with medical types. And in fact Katya did do great. She has X-rays taken, her teeth cleaned and an exam by the dentist. Aftewards she was telling everyone she saw, "Look-it! Clean teeth!" It is a pediatric dentist and I liked him pretty well. Reagan cried, no surprise, when the dentist looked in her mouth. But Bunny Bear did great:0)
We finally got Katya's birthday present, a balance bike! In case you haven't heard of such a thing, it is basically a small kid bike without pedals. It is all the new rage for teaching kids to ride a bike. They learn the balance and coordination of bike riding while gaining the confidence because they control everything with their feet fully touching the ground. Kids who ride balance bikes usually skip right over training wheels and transition easily to a real bike. We had to look around to find one big enough for Katya. I am happy with the one we got. It will fit her for a very long time and it has foot pegs where she can rest her feet when she gets cruising (in the photo, the foot pegs are turned the wrong way, which is how it came for packaging and shipping. I wasn't able to turn it myself and had to have Craig do it when he got home). She wasn't so sure at first but I demonstrated for her and then she started practicing like crazy. I let her practice in the house since the bike is new and she is just learning. She is pretty excited about it and is getting better all the time! That's it for now from the Faulkner house! Love to all, Brenda
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