This week has been a pretty easy week. Addison had her longest stretch of sleep to date. Tuesday, after her play date, she decided not to sleep at all the rest of the day. By 8pm, she was out cold and didn’t wake up until 3am to eat. It was great! However, since I was used to waking up every few hours, I started to worry something not might be right. On top of that, there are other discomforts I have to deal with by waiting for her to eat for that long. Enough said about that.

We are trying to slowly ease her up into the crib during nap time. When I feel like she is starting to get sleepy I will put her in the crib and start the music and lights from the mobile. Sometimes she will remain awake and watch the mobile the whole time, other times I get about 20 minutes out of it. When the music stops she usually decides she does not like being there any longer and will let me know to come and get her.



Another first for Addison this week is the introduction of the pacifier. I have three different styles and we went through all three to find out which one she would like. I wish I had kept the packaging because I am not sure that all the pacifiers are for her age. Some of them look pretty huge and even as I was offering it to her, I was afraid she would gag on it. She has decided she likes the Nuk brand best for now. It is really cute when she spits it out because she has the outline of the pacifier around her face from sucking it in so hard against her cheeks. This morning she started to grab hold of it with her hand. That means one step closer to grabbing toys! I tried to see if she would reach for it if I held it out in front of her, but nothing yet.


Addison has really started to enjoy bath time now too. I think initially she was too cold since she was sitting in the tub and not completely immersed in the water. Now I hold her so she is sitting up and her whole lower body is submerged and I swirl her around the tub. She holds her position and stares at me the whole time like she is in a trance. We have to be quick with the hand off from tub to towel to keep her calm. Considering how much she hated it before, I feel like it is a huge success!