Monday, July 30, 2012

Transitions

The past month has been a month of transitions over at the Petersen household. Both Elizabeth and Matthew got new beds and their rooms are both being re-done a little bit.

        Lizzy is handling the transition to her room and new crib like a champ. As a matter of fact, she is sleeping better then ever. Her room is super cold and i think that she loves it. She takes great naps during the day and only wakes up once at night to eat and then goes straight back to sleep. Lizzy now puts herself to sleep, which is amazing. I swaddle her, put her binkie in her mouth, give her kisses and then leave. She then flips herself over and goes to sleep. i love it!!! : )

      Matthew on the other hand.......he is killing me. : ( Seriously, my little sleeper man is no longer the champ he once was. We switched him to a toddler bed because he learned how to jump out of his crib, so there was no real point in keeping him in his crib. ( it was a sad day ) So now, he takes terrible naps and doesn't sleep at night. He is usually up every night between 2am and 4 am. And then he is whiny all day. We had to turn the lock on his door around, and even that doesn't really help. He just gets up and screams and pounds on the door. I'm trying a new technique with him tonight, so hopefully it works.

     Lizzy has also transitioned to formula. Yay! ha ha. Breast feeding is great and wonderful but its not my favorite thing, at all. I tried to make it to six months, which is when i stopped with Matthew, but with the heat and my hormones and other things, it just got to be too much. Plus Lizzy would scream at me a lot when i would try to feed her sometimes and sometimes she would only latch if i stood up rocked back and forth. Just too much...... So formula it is! : )  She has tried rice cereal and applesauce, but only about 4 times. I need to start doing it consistently since she is almost 6 months old and ill have to feed her real food everyday.

    I am in a major mood to redecorate my house, so if anybody has any good ideas or inexpensive places to go, let me know!




1 comment:

Sara said...

I'm always in the mood to redecorate, but there's no budget for it. Sometimes I rearrange furniture. That helps.