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02/10/2005 Archived Entry: "let there be light"

Well that seemed to work. I don't know if it was the light or not, but she had no problem sleeping last night. She woke up, got fed, put back down and went back to sleep. That, I can deal with, no matter how many times she gets up to eat. Chris took the first feeding anyway, so I slept a while anyway. He realized we were doing things backwards before with me taking the first half of the night and him taking the second. He's the one who has no problem staying up and I'm the one who can get up extremely early and function just fine during the day. So we switched and it went fine. Daisy also had her two long awake times during the day, so that could also be why she didn't need to stay awake in the middle of the night. I gave her tummy time yesterday. She lasted all of 5 minutes before being one angry baby. She was quickly soothed though and I left her on her back for awhile after that. Tabitha is in charge of floor time entertainment. Her preferred method is to simply read to Daisy and she must have read 5 or 6 books before Daisy got tired of the floor.

Speaking of Tabitha reading, the child reads many different books at once. She is currently reading a Magic Treehouse book, a Ramona book and Charlotte's Web. The latter is the only one she hasn't read before. I find it interesting that she will read so many books at the same time. Sometimes, when it's a book she's read before, she'll just re-read certain chapters that she had found amusing. I'm a one book person, myself. I'm reading Once and Future King again. Actually, I shouldn't really say again. I've started it twice before, but somewhere around the middle I tend to lose interest. This time I'd like to finish it, but if I stop again, I think I'll admit defeat and that will be that. I enjoy the early chapters so much that I don't know why I can't seem to finish it. It'll probably take me awhile as I'm reading it in 15 minute spurts while in the tub.

Chris took Tabitha to hula last night. Now that it's getting close to show and competition seaon, class is an hour twice a week as opposed to the usual 45 minutes. We found out that Tabitha's level will not be doing just one dance as I thought, but two. So they started learning the new one last night. Also, the one they've been practicing is changing a bit and the girls are going to have a drum (I don't know the Hawai'ian word) to use during the dance. Our tax refund is supposed to go towards Disney, but perhaps we should consider using part of it for a video camera. We don't know anybody with one so it's not like we can borrow one and I'd hate to not have Tabitha's dances saved. We've gone through two 8 mm (is that the right term? The kind with the small casettes) since Tabitha was born and they both stopped working with the exact same problem. So we are definitely only considering digital now. We can get a decent one what with Chris's discount and all. Though I don't want to spend a fortune so it won't be top of the line or anything.

Back to the topic of Disney, we've now given birth to a healthy baby so it's time to make our decision. Take a 3 month old and go in May or take a 7 month old and go in September. There are so many pros and cons to both. The plane ride would be easier at 3 months, the nights would be easier at 7 months. She's would be lighter in the Baby Björn in May, but more able to enjoy everything in Sept. Easier to feed in May, but would require more breaks to eat. Possibly lighter crowds in Sept, but also the start of hurricane season, not that I expect a repeat of last year. Plus other factors. So we really just need to write everything down and pick one date or the other and make the reservation.

Today we have nothing planned though I think Tabs and Chris are headed to the park so she can ride her scooter. She picked out her helmet last week (actually, that's the last thing we did before I went into labor). It's a black skater helmet and she plans to decorate it with tons of stickers. Should be interesting.

Posted by Dena @ 02/10/2005 11:30 AM PST