Sitting, Standing, Sitting, Standing

Marin Dalby loves the game of standing, sitting, standing, sitting at her little house. She only does it once in the video, but she a lot of times will crawl over to the house, stand up, peek over and scream to get our attention and then continue to play peek-a-boo.

The Simple Things

Cousin Aricin has been so nice and good at sharing all of his toys and sending them down south to TN. As you can see in the picture we are surrounded by them. However, if you look closely you will notice that the items closest are a cardboard box from a Christmas present and a birthday card that I got from YaYa that sings a High School Musical song. Two very treasured items that receive a lot of love.

Don't just sit there, bust-a-move.....

First, apologies for the singing on the video, but I think the dancing show is worth listening to me sing. The song I am singing is one we heard on Sesame Street and really liked it. When you are singing the song you make motions like you are driving and I think that is where the arm motion came in........because when we sing the song the arms usually start moving.....

Shakin' not Stirred

What a week we have had. In addition to re-adjusting to home life versus hotel life we have had quite the week with nursing. It all started when Dalby decided to use the two teeth she has had for months on her mom. 6 times being bitten in one day, while nursing was enough for both of us. Dalby has decided no more nursing, because every time she thinks she wants to nurse, she fakes me out and bites me. So that is done. On the plane ride home Dalby had taken a bottle of whole milk like a champ and we have been practicing with a sippy cup for months. So I thought, no problem this transition shouldn’t be too bad….WRONG!!!!! She absolutely refused any liquids I offered her for the first day, except for maybe a few sips of water. She screamed and screamed and screamed and I couldn’t fix it for her because everything I offered her she turned down, even resorting to trying nursing again, for which I was repaid with a nice bite. So that night she fell asleep and then woke up at 2am quite unhappy and again refused everything, until finally at 3:30am she ate a whole jar of pears and then fell asleep by 5am. Then was back up at 7am thirsty/hungry and only taking a few sips of water again. I offered her some milk and she finally took a few sips of that……she was eating like a champ so I was picking foods that seemed higher in water content and feeding her whole milk yogurt at each meal. And trying two different sippy cups that our neighbor had let me borrow, nothing seemed to take very well, leaving me with a screaming baby. I finally got to the grocery so I got soy milk, vanilla soy milk, berry soy milk, grape juice(which I think she had a reaction to), apple juice(which she doesn’t seem to like), pear juice(which she also doesn’t seem to like), whole milk and breast milk and a new sippy cup. She seems to like a combo of milks right now. So we mixed up the combo and tried the different cups and she liked her new sippy cup as a toy but couldn’t really work it, but the glass that seemed to work best for our little diva is the martini glass pictured below. She was enjoying her milk martini a bit more each time I offered her the glass. And I was not going to argue. Last night another neighbor lent me a Tupperware sippy cup that I am sure many mothers will recognize as one of the original sippy cups and that seems to be working wonderfully!!!! So for now we finally have success today(Friday) with her drinking some fluids without it being an all out screaming fest. Now her dad will be home this evening and I am sure that we will not have one problem because she always manages to make a liar out of me, especially in front of her dad.

Who are you going to believe - my mom or little old me sitting her sweetly eating my banana?

My kind of town.....

We apologize for our lack of posting lately. One of the reasons is we got to travel with dad. Dalby and I headed to Chicago with Ryan last week. We had a great time walking around the city and then hanging with dad at night. Our days were: wake-up, eat breakfast, get dressed, head out and walk the city(because we made too much noise at 6:30 in the morning for a hotel room), fall asleep for our morning nap, come back to the hotel room so mom could rest her feet a bit, wake-up, have lunch, play a bit and then walk so there would be an afternoon nap, wake-up, play and then meet dad for dinner. It was great to walk around the city. Chicago is such a cool city, especially in the summer. As you can see by the pictures below and the change in attire, the weather changed from cool to hot during the week. Also, notice the similar pose. If it wasn't one leg up on the tray it was both legs. Many people commented on how relaxed she looked.