I’m taking a few moments during Aiden’s morning nap to write
down a few thoughts I wanted to share.
Apparently my daughter has decided to enter into the “4-month
wakeful phase” about 2 weeks early. A serious parenting decision awaits us on
the horizon. There are pretty much 2 different schools of thought on this
issue. Everything I’ve read says that around 4 months babies go through a huge
cognitive development phase where they are suddenly aware of their surroundings
in a way that they haven’t been before. It’s essentially sensory overload for
them in the sense that they want to LOOK and PLAY and TALK to everything. It
usually disrupts their sleep patterns and it can be tough for parents that have
gotten used to their little angel sleeping 10-12 hours a night. The books I
have all suggest this to be a good time to start “sleep training”, which is
essentially where you let your baby cry-it-out at sometime during the night. I’m
not opposed to this suggestion; I’m just concerned that Aiden might be too
young for it. She’s only 3.5 months, not 4. I don’t want her to feel that we’ve
abandoned her at night, but I also don’t want to set a precedence that we like
to play at 4 am. AAGGGHHHH!!!!!! Parenting is tough! I just want us to make the
right decision and yet I realize that there probably isn’t any one true right
decision.
I feel like I’m sounding more and more like a fortune cookie
these days.
Aiden has started to roll from her back to her tummy. The
only issue is that now anytime that you put her down in her crib for a nap or
bedtime she immediately rolls onto her tummy and then gets pissed. I don’t
think she’s put it together yet that she can roll both ways. It is awfully cute
though, watching her roll around all the time.
We got a treadclimber! A good friend of mine had one and
didn’t want it anymore, so we volunteered to take it of her hands. It’s set up
in our bedroom and Tobey barked at it initially. I’ve wanted one of these for
years. They used to have them up at the gym but they replaced them with
stairmills about 2 years ago. I love the machine and it’s made me SO much
happier. I get on it every morning when Aiden goes down for her nap. I think it’s
helping me keep some of my sanity. If I choose to go to the gym in the
evenings, then I miss out on the one hour where Hugh gets to play with Aiden. I
hate to do that, so working out at home is the solution for now.
As of today I officially have one month of maternity leave
left. While I know that going back to work is the right answer for me, I find
myself wanting to stay with my baby girl. It’s going to be a tough transition
for me, I can already tell.
Hugh and I got used to not getting sleep when Aiden was a
newborn, and we survived! However, it’s really tough to start getting sleep and
then to lose it again. WHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Yes, I’m crying.
I was so tired yesterday, but Hugh was very sweet. After
Aiden was down for the night (HA!) he told me to get into bed and he proceeded
to fold the 4 loads of laundry that I’d been staring at for three days. I
really do love that man!
I discovered yesterday that we have a Smart Meter on our
house. I was able to go to the website and look at our energy consumption
broken down into 15 minute intervals. It’s really cool, and it was interesting.
We are currently using about $10 worth of energy a day. I’m going to try
unplugging the TV and a few other things that we leave plugged during the day
to see if it affects the usage. I’ve heard for years that leaving your cell
phone charger, etc. plugged in during the day actually uses energy but now I
can actually see for myself. YAY!
Wow…how much of a dork am I?
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