Today was more or less typical day. Had a quiet early morning with Abby, then went to Nikki's to buy her double jogging stroller, then to the new cafe for a quick jolt of decaf and being out. After lunch with the boys, Abby did her 45 minute nap trick again and wouldn't go back to sleep in her crib, so I put her in the ducky swing, and she was out. That is, until in my zeal to do some reading on how to get 3-4 month old babies to nap longer I accidentally knocked over a framed picture right next to her head! NOT the way to get her to nap longer, clearly! Which she told me, in no uncertain terms.
After nap time, Jake and Mike took Grandma Fran on a virtual tour of the house with the webcam, and Abby and I went to the library and got Jake a slew of new books. She slept there and in the car, and was happy. Mike fixed us all a quick pasta dinner, and after tons of huge smiles at the dinner table, Abby had a huge crying fit that seemed to last for hours, but was really about 45 minutes, both before and after her bath, which she kind of liked. But the minute the bath towel touched her skin, she went off again. She went stiff as a board, turned beet red, and kept pulling my hair out at the roots! She was inconsolable, hungry but rejecting the bottle. I remade it from scratch and tried 3 different nipples. She was clearly trying to tell me something, but I was not getting it. Mike tried too - no difference. I think maybe the first one had something wrong with it and after that she was just all in a tizzy. It finally ended when she accepted her pacifier, had her belly rubbed, and fell asleep in my arms, her little fingers curled around my index finger. Whew. She woke up 45 minutes later and finished the same bottle with no problems at all, and went back to sleep. Double whew.
A bunch of emails were waiting and now it's after 9pm. How do the days go so fast? I am tired and wishing I had more time to do the things I put on my lists every day. I did absolutely nothing I had planned!
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