It has been a long time since I have updated everyone on life changes, so here we go!
Aleigh for the past month has been trying to get her way and stay awake when it is time to sleep. Starting about 7 months old I found that holding her until she was sleeping worked best. We also off and on tried just putting our hand in her bed because she liked playing with our hands while falling asleep. 90% of the time she was held though. Now she will shove your hand away, try to climb off your lap, cry and scream and turn while being held etc. We have decided since she no longer wants to be held and is just going to throw a tantrum it is now time to put our foot down and when it is bedtime it is bedtime. If she is going to cry one way or the other then she will learn to fall asleep on her own. We are going to go in every so many minutes and tell her it is OK, mommy and daddy are here but it is time to go to sleep then give her a kiss and leave again. Tonight it took 35 minutes. Hopefully this will work.
Tonight when we were reading a book before bed Aleigh picked out a book that has different textures to feel. It was the cutest thing every time I turned the page without even prompting she would grab Amelia's hand and make Amelia feel the texture. Cute kids, she is such a good big sister already.
If I am smiling really big at Amelia, Aleigh has started doing the same, she will crouch down and give Amelia the cheesiest smile she can muster and Amelia just smiles right back at her.
Amelia has started to pull herself up to a stand this past week and the week before she learned how to crawl on her hands and knees. If you are on the floor trying to do something beware of the baby she will now climb all over you, pull your hair, eat your nose and stick her slobbery wet finger in your eye. I love my little baby wrestler. Her two favorite hangouts are the backyard and the bathroom. If the back door is open you better believe she will be out there soon. If you put her on her bedroom floor while changing Aleigh's diaper next thing I hear is pounding on the bathroom scale.
Its pretty neat that Aleigh and Amelia learned the exact same week, 32 weeks old, how to crawl and the very next week they both learned how to pull up to a stand. It will be interesting to see if Amelia also starts walking at 9&1/2 months. Not sure if I am ready for that!
We found out this last week the new update on the place we are living in. We were originally told that we would have to move out by the time our lease ended, that was the end of May. We never heard from anyone as to if we could sign a new lease. Well we finally heard and more than likely the bank will sell the place. They said we will have to be out in about 3 months but they don't know specific dates yet.
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