Anyway, we passed eleven weeks yesterday and Allie is doing well!
Knock on wood, but she seems to have a great immune system like I do, and managed to not get Greg's horrendous cold that caused him to call in sick, come home, and pollute the house with his germs. I think in the future we may have him stay at his Houston apartment if he gets that sick again because I was really worried Allie and I were going to get it. Hopefully my breast milk is giving her great anti-bodies.
After some successful napping in the crib, we decided to give putting Allie in the crib at night a try this week and it didn't go that well. The first night wasn't too terrible for the first half of the night, but after she woke up for her night feeding, I had a really hard time getting her back to sleep and I was really cranky about my disrupted sleep the next day. The second night neither Allie or I slept much for the first three hours, so I gave up and put her back in the bassinet for the rest of the night, not wanting a repeat of the first night. The third night I decided I wasn't ready for crib training yet and put her back in her bassinet. As if to confirm that she isn't ready yet, she slept her longest stretch ever- from about 9pm til 5am in the bassinet. So I think we are still a little ways out on crib sleeping.
We did our second Gymboree class on Monday and Allie did SO WELL! She managed to stay awake, alert, and happy the entire class and impressed all the rest of the five month olds and their parents that were in our class. I think she's really curious about sensory stuff, and seems to love music, physical touch, and all the interaction she gets in the class, so I'm glad we are doing it.
Allie is getting more and more funny and interactive with her smiles. I think she's laughing sometimes, but it's hard to tell. She definitely makes tons of cute sounds and coos and some sound like a laugh. It's so cute. It's also become obvious to me that she knows ME, and smiles specifically for me. She's been doing that a lot while my parents are holding her and I walk over. Heart melting :)
Greg has seven days in a row of work from going from April in to May, so we decided to head back down to Hilton Head and hang out with the grandparents for a couple days this week so I wouldn't be flying solo the whole time.
It was also my birthday on Tuesday, so it was great to celebrate with my family. My mom made me steamed lobster and a huge strawberry shortcake. It was awesome!!
We have been going for walks around the plantation, my favorite place for walks!
The weather hasn't been as good as it could be- kinda cooler and rainy at times, but we're still having a good time with my parents.
We went to the outlets (they have Janie and Jack, Gymboree, Carters, and Children's Place = dangerous!) and got Allie her first pair of sunglasses yesterday.
Too cute! She also got a bathing suit and cover up to use later in the summer. Couldn't resist!
Allie has been sleeping well in the Rock N Play while we're here, maintaining her up once a night schedule. I'm also getting a lot of use out of our monitor, putting her to bed in the guest room and using it to track her from the living room on my IPad. A lot of people have asked how I like our baby monitor (made by Withings), which was one of the items Greg picked out because it can be used remotely from the internet to view the baby. The catch is that you have to use a computer, IPad, or IPhone, it doesn't have a separate handheld viewing device like say the Summer Infant one or others that many people use. I wasn't sure how I'd like this, but after using it a bunch this week, I actually like it fine. My only gripe is that it's hard to hear Allie because if you use the white noise on it, which we do, you can't hear much else besides the white noise. For viewing it works really good though, and we really like that the white noise goes as long as you want.
We've been enjoying some lunches out and dinners in while here. I always eat well when I'm down here! Today we tried a new wine bar and I got a Cuban sandwich and black bean soup combo and split and Allagash White beer with my mom. Delish!
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Working out is going ok. I didn't run or go to yoga while Greg was home sick last week because he didn't want me to leave Allie alone with him, so that was a bummer, but I did get in walks most days as usual. I did go for a run here the other day (about 2-3 miles), but am primarily walking this week as well. It's occurred to me that it is probably going to be a long time til I can race again. I really can't count on consistent training and further more, I would have to line up someone to watch Allie during the actual race because I can't count on Greg being home on a race day, so it's hard to plan anything. I'm a little bummed to be so far out of the running/racing loop, but it's worth it to be with Allie. I've been lucky enough to loose pretty much all my baby weight walking and doing minimal running and yoga, so I really can't complain. I mainly just miss the fun of training and running the race. I hope eventually I'll be able to get back to it at a more intense level.
Anyway, it's been another fun week. I can't believe Allie will be three months old in a matter of days!
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