4 months old and a nursery…FINALLY!

September 25th, 2008

So we finally have Abby’s nursery set up! Well it’s more of a corner in the nursery, we don’t have much room in our house. Here’s the story: We waited for Crib #1 to be available online…we waited and waited. Finally, we decided to go for Crib #2, a little more expensive, but she was 2 months at the time and we knew we needed to get it. Crib #2 arrived completely damaged, box torn to pieces! So I call Babies R Us, they sent someone to pick it up, then I waited for it to get to their return department, then waited for the refund, then called to order it again. Well crib #2 was now not available online, so we go for crib #3. Crib #3 arrives damaged. This time I call and ask if we can return it to the store (for sake of a quicker refund), then we’d just buy one at the store so it doesn’t break! So going off of Abby’s schedule, we happened to leave our house in the middle of a dust storm. Joe’s trying to strap this crib to the top of the Jeep in the middle of this storm, then drive 30 minutes to the store. We get there and they say we can’t return it to the store. We fight and tell them we called customer service AND the furniture department of that store and they said we could! Fine, they give us store credit. We wait a few more days for my 20% off coupon to be valid because the cribs are twice as expensive in the store. So finally, on Saturday the 20th – Abby about 4 months old – Joe put together crib #4 and her little corner is set up. (Our friends Kellyn and Ashley made the ABIGAIL plaques and our friend Chrissy helped us decorate).

The transition was easier than I expected, too. Since she was born she’s been sleeping in her bassinette next to our bed. The two times she was sick though, she slept in our bed at night. It was sometime between 6 and 8 weeks that she started sleeping through the night (5-8 hrs) every night – though there were a few times that she slept through the night before that. I didn’t try to put her on any schedule before she was 3 months old because I read that it’s pointless to try. Then at 3 months, we were on vacation, so I wasn’t about to try then. After we got back from our vacation, I started her on her schedule and she immediately took to it! We have a bed time routine (bath, lotion massage, pj’s, nurse, story, swaddle with arms out, lullubies), then I put her down and she “soothes” herself to sleep. Nap time is a mini-version of the routine. I thought it would take a while to work, but it didn’t. She’s up at 4:30 AM for a feeding, then she usually comes in bed with us (sometimes I’ll put her back in her crib) and sleeps til 8:00 AM, then she naps (1 hour each) at 10 AM, 1 PM, and 5:30 PM, then bed time is at 8:00 PM.

We’re trying to start Abby on rice cereal mixed with pumped milk, but no luck so far. I read it might take a few tries, so we’re still working on it. She just doesn’t like the rubber nipples as much as me. But I’m really trying to make this work cuz she’s been nursing every 1 to 2 hours for the last couple weeks! Her 4 month check up is today so I’m gonna talk to the pediatrician about it.

(I know a lot of this isn’t very interesting, but this is my journal keeping and I’m just trying to write everything so I can look back and remember)

Speaking of her 4 month check up, she gets shots again today I hate this part!!

Yesterday, we went for her 3 month portraits (at 4 months old, yes I’m behind). And they are so darn cute, I’ll post them as soon as they’re available online. I’m going to print out a bunch of 8X10′s and send them in to modeling agencies. I already submitted some pictures to the gap casting call (gap.com/castingcall). So cross your fingers.

Oh and Abby met her uncle Dan the other day (9/14). He came for a 2 hour visit. He was in town for some game and decided he could squeeze us into his schedule We got some cute pics of him with Abby.