Play time

Check out Juliette on her mat. She is now comfy playing on her mat, in her bumbo, or on her bounce seat for longer periods of time before she wants a cuddle. She's also rolling over more....kind of :).

New sleep=no sleep

It looks like Juliette is challenging us yet again. As soon as we think we've got her figured out that's when she usually changes it up a bit. She's still going to sleep somewhere between 9 and 11 at night, but now she enjoys waking up a few times during the night just to be cuddled for a few minutes or she farted and woke herself up! Me being sick the past few days has not helped, but thank God for Mom. We ran out of batteries in her swing so today's morning nap in her crib was only 30 minutes after letting her cry for 15 minutes. I gave in a rocked her--couldn't let her scream like that!

Fireworks

We went to the fireworks over at Salem Fields church last night after hearing about it from Sue. When Juliette gets bigger she's going to love it. They had so many things for kids and it was all free- bouncy gyms, a little train, a water slide, and tons more. I had a big scare though. I was getting ready to feed the baby and leaned back in my chair and the chair started to fall off the sidewalk! I just screamed for someone to get the baby. Thankfully I didn't fall all the way and Juliette was fine. Her routine was a little disturbed with no bath until after 10, but she still went to bed around her normal time- 11pm and slept until 6 then slept until 9 and now is asleep again in her swing. I think the key to getting her down for the second morning nap is to catch her when she's just starting to yawn so she doesn't get over tired.

Lucky

I realized this morning that we are very lucky with Juliette and her communication. She lets us know pretty much everything she needs by her cries or what she does. We know exactly when she's hungry, when she wants to be played with, when she's ready to be left alone for a bit, and the most helpful one would be when she's tired. This morning she started that high pitched scream of being tired. Personally I like it a lot better when she sucks her thumb and nuzzles to show she's tired, but at least we know what she wants!

Uh Oh

I think Juiliette has figured out who I am. This has only happened today, but each time I left the room she started screaming. A part of me finds this very endearing, another part of me is blaring red sirens that this could be an issue for a while. We'll see.

Where is Baby's Belly Button?

Here's our little reader! I don't know if it's the colors or the moving flaps, but this is the only book we've read to her that she responds to like this!

Back to the Park

A radio station is doing Music in the Park again this month so Mom and I took Juliette to Herkump Park this afternoon. She was awake this time! Last visit she was out cold. On the down side, she hasn't had a nap all day except for when we drove inthe car- knocked her out cold. I'm hoping that means that after her 9 pm feeding, she'll go down for the night. Here's her chilling out in her seat playing with Dolly