maya loves to sit up and suck on her fingers
tummy time for little miss drooly!
sucking my thumb in the bath
kalia shows her muscles - from eating her veggies
maya sleeping at the beach - she was exhausted from watching mommy surf
tummy time on the boppy pillow
kalia eating in her booster - at first she was avoiding the camera...what?
maya up from her first nap and kalia told me that maya wanted to lay with her big sister
So we've been spending some time at home doing some sleep training with Maya. So far 5 nights and today is the 5th official day of naps too. We have been primarily working on her sleeping in her crib and getting to sleep on her own, but comforting her in intervals, or whenever we feel like it. We put her to bed in her crib, but when she first wakes up 3 1/2 to 4 hours later, I bring her to the co-sleeper for the night. Erik was not ready for her to sleep all night away from us or to cry more during the night if she goes longer than 3 hours. After much discussion, I am agreeing with him. After all "she's just a baby" as erik always says. She's our last baby and she deserves to babied a little while longer...just a little.
She's doing pretty well, but will still cry for several minutes or every now and then longer. The first night she only cried 31 minutes, this compared to Kalia's first night of an hour and a half. This was very tough. I cried too and Kalia said, "maya can take it mom". Then she came over and wiped away my tears, talk about role reversal. Then I looked at Kalia who took months and months to learn to go to sleep on her own and she is happy and healthy. Maya needed to learn to sleep on her own in her crib, she was getting so overtired - her naps were getting shorter and shorter and even trying to skip a naps. She would wake up from her naps crying, still tired and she was not our usual happy girl. OK, it sounds like I'm justifying having our baby cry and I am. OK, enough about sleep- I'm obsessing. Erik will say that when he reads this, but it's my blog.
Oh, now Maya is our thumb sucking tummy sleeper. That's how she soothes herself to sleep, turn on her tummy and sticks her thumb in her mouth.
On to other things...
Maya is grabbing everything...including her feet. Yes, it's too cute. She woke up in a great mood this morning and was talking. Everything about Maya is louder than Kalia was. She talks louder, she laughs louder and she cried louder. I wonder if it's from having an almost 3 year old screaming around you from the minute you were born. I guess she figures that's how people communicate - loudly.
Kalia has been showing off her muscles lately - since they are growing from all of her veggies.
Of course Maya is going to take her longest morning nap of the month right now, while I expected her up sooner and told Kalia I would take her to the library. Kalia loves the library right now, I wasn't sure if she would be ready to give up the books we checked out last week, we only read them oh about 50 times.
Kalia has been making everything talk to each other. Making her stuffed animals talk to each other, her markers, yesterday I found her making her sippy cup and a toy squirt bottle talk to each other.
Papa gave Maya a stuffed animal horse and it's Kalia's new best friend right now. "Horsey" gets several bedtime routines a day - bath, stories and bed. Horsey often doesn't feel like walking and wants his mommy to carry him...sounds familiar. Now two markers are singing to each other...a musical. Kalia is getting to the stage where she asks about everything. Her same stories are taking much longer to read because she keeps asking about little details in the pictures or trying to understand what is actually going on. She continues to amaze me at how many books - long wordy books she has memorized, even if we haven't read them in a long time. She must have at least 30 books memorized, maybe more. We just got a new book from the Dolly Pardon imagination library and she already almost has it memorized - we've had it for 3 days!
Erik watched Maya yesterday while I took Kalia to the park, it was nice to have a little time with Kalia alone. Erik's been taking her on all sorts of fun outings this week - crashing hotel pools. But I've been at home with Maya pretty much, so it was nice to get out.
We had a nice memorial weekend, I got to surf all by myself at guard rails. Then erik surfed mala, twice and then I got to go to town, do a little shopping, get a coffee and go to the grocery store all by myself! Then we BBQ'd outside on Sunday. Kalia skipped two naps on Saturday and Sunday, so by 7:15PM both girls were out for the night (Maya down by 6:05PM). It felt pretty good to actually attempt to watch a movie.
Maya still sleeping and two markers are looking for something in the couch...
She's doing pretty well, but will still cry for several minutes or every now and then longer. The first night she only cried 31 minutes, this compared to Kalia's first night of an hour and a half. This was very tough. I cried too and Kalia said, "maya can take it mom". Then she came over and wiped away my tears, talk about role reversal. Then I looked at Kalia who took months and months to learn to go to sleep on her own and she is happy and healthy. Maya needed to learn to sleep on her own in her crib, she was getting so overtired - her naps were getting shorter and shorter and even trying to skip a naps. She would wake up from her naps crying, still tired and she was not our usual happy girl. OK, it sounds like I'm justifying having our baby cry and I am. OK, enough about sleep- I'm obsessing. Erik will say that when he reads this, but it's my blog.
Oh, now Maya is our thumb sucking tummy sleeper. That's how she soothes herself to sleep, turn on her tummy and sticks her thumb in her mouth.
On to other things...
Maya is grabbing everything...including her feet. Yes, it's too cute. She woke up in a great mood this morning and was talking. Everything about Maya is louder than Kalia was. She talks louder, she laughs louder and she cried louder. I wonder if it's from having an almost 3 year old screaming around you from the minute you were born. I guess she figures that's how people communicate - loudly.
Kalia has been showing off her muscles lately - since they are growing from all of her veggies.
Of course Maya is going to take her longest morning nap of the month right now, while I expected her up sooner and told Kalia I would take her to the library. Kalia loves the library right now, I wasn't sure if she would be ready to give up the books we checked out last week, we only read them oh about 50 times.
Kalia has been making everything talk to each other. Making her stuffed animals talk to each other, her markers, yesterday I found her making her sippy cup and a toy squirt bottle talk to each other.
Papa gave Maya a stuffed animal horse and it's Kalia's new best friend right now. "Horsey" gets several bedtime routines a day - bath, stories and bed. Horsey often doesn't feel like walking and wants his mommy to carry him...sounds familiar. Now two markers are singing to each other...a musical. Kalia is getting to the stage where she asks about everything. Her same stories are taking much longer to read because she keeps asking about little details in the pictures or trying to understand what is actually going on. She continues to amaze me at how many books - long wordy books she has memorized, even if we haven't read them in a long time. She must have at least 30 books memorized, maybe more. We just got a new book from the Dolly Pardon imagination library and she already almost has it memorized - we've had it for 3 days!
Erik watched Maya yesterday while I took Kalia to the park, it was nice to have a little time with Kalia alone. Erik's been taking her on all sorts of fun outings this week - crashing hotel pools. But I've been at home with Maya pretty much, so it was nice to get out.
We had a nice memorial weekend, I got to surf all by myself at guard rails. Then erik surfed mala, twice and then I got to go to town, do a little shopping, get a coffee and go to the grocery store all by myself! Then we BBQ'd outside on Sunday. Kalia skipped two naps on Saturday and Sunday, so by 7:15PM both girls were out for the night (Maya down by 6:05PM). It felt pretty good to actually attempt to watch a movie.
Maya still sleeping and two markers are looking for something in the couch...
2 comments:
KC!!! LOVE the blog. Added it to my list of blogs to check up on. :) The girls are ADORABLE!!!!! XOXOXO
The girls are getting so big! That is not the same Maya that i just visited! I think both girls are eating their veggies!
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