After Bath Body Oil

1 part vitamin E oil
1 part jojoba oil
a few drops of tea tree oil

combine and apply after showering.

Can't sleep, Shouldn't get up

So it seems as though I can't get out of bed in the morning if I wake up too early and can't go back to sleep. Why? Because I will wake the baby and annoy my husband. Life is grand.

I'm going to try this email blogging thing...

Evidentally, I can post pictures this way. I'll have to try it out. I wonder if I can post video too???

bloging doesn't work for logging

So my brilliant idea of blogging to keep track of eating, sleeping and pooping was actually a terrible idea. I tried to transfer everything to a log spreadsheet and it just doesn't track. there are way too many holes. I'm going to need to work out a better system. Bummer. blogging is so much more fun. Spreadsheets are very limited. I guess the good thing is that anyone can fill in the spreadsheet log. Maybe I need to make a form. Thats it! A form. So I'll kill a few trees. I guess that's the price you pay for good logging.

on a side note, mariah woke up at 9 and went back to sleep after like 15 minutes (I think she was just scared) and then kate woke up at 6 - again, i think she was scared. i have two frady cat daughters. Im sure it's my fault.

Picky Eater???

All of the sudden Mariah is becoming a picky eater. Could it possibly have something to do with this four day rotation diet? All she really wants to do is eat what we're eating. She's turning her nose up at the babyfood - all except the fruit of course...

Can't keep up!

Ok, so where did we leave off.

Monday

Woke up after a full night of sleep for Mariah - unfortunately, now Kate is starting to have issues with going to sleep again. Back to the grindstone with sleep training on her end.

Food for the day:
Barley
Sweet Potatoes
Corn
Apples

Tuesday
Another full night of sleep for Mariah! New disturbing trend Kate woke up once and didn't want to go back to sleep by herself.

Food for the day:
Quinoa
Peaches
Green Beans and Butternut squash

Mariah took two really short naps during the day and I think this is a trend. If she doesn't sleep too long (less than an hour and a half) in the afternoon, she sleeps through the night. We're going to keep working on that.

Wednesday
Another full night of sleep for Mariah. Kate had a hard time going to sleep. It took her about an hour. Again, Kate woke up to go to the bathroom and then wanted me to sing to her. I didn't do it right so she screamed I left. Ken went in and told her to stop screaming and then sang to her. I explained why I thought that was a bad precedent to set. Hopefully we'll be able to stop this in the next few days.

Food for the day:
Oatmeal
Apples and Cherries
Spinach and Potatoes

I have this feeling this morning that things are returning to normal though. I took Mariah with me to drop Kate off at school in our new Prius (yay!). Mariah fell asleep on the way home. I put her in bed. When I got back Jackie was organizing toys in Kate's room. More later

Oops - missed a few

Ok, so we had a few rough days and a few rough nights leading up to Kate's birthday party. Here's the low down on Mariah's eating and sleeping:

Thursday
Up for one hour in the middle of the night Wednesday night
Woke up at 7ish

Had Barley, Pears and Sweet Potatoes for the day

Took a 45 minute nap in the stroller. Took a super long nap in the afternoon had a really hard time putting her down in the evening.

Friday
Woke up once at 4ish and went back to sleep at 6ish
Woke up around 8:30

Had Quinoa, Peaches, Green Beans and Butternut squash for the day

Didn't take a morning nap, had a bottle at 12:30 and then didn't eat lunch. Was fine at dinner at the grove (gave her little pieces of my french fries because she was really adamant about eating with us). Went to sleep easily, but kept waking up. I eventually took her back to bed with me because I needed sleep.

Saturday (Kate's birthday!)
Slept ok in bed with me.
Woke up at 7ish

Had oatmeal, apples and apricots and spinach and potatoes for the day. She also had gluten free arrowroot cookies=not sure how many because her grandmothers were feeding them to her.

Took a good morning nap, didn't go down for her afternoon nap until like 3:30 or so. Woke up after like half an hour and was a total disaster. Had a really really hard time going to sleep - but she slept until 7:45 which is when I opened her door to get her to wake up so that I could make sure that we all get naps today!