Janet

That's Anthony's old Janet bib, a gift from my friend Janet when I was pregnant with Anthony. I used to tell her I was going to name the baby Janet whether it was a boy or a girl, ha! Felicity is drooling like a crazy person so she has to wear a bib. It's, like, pre-teething, I guess? She was so crazy and fussy this Friday that I took her to the doctor, I was so afraid she was sick again. She had been up a lot, like every 90 minutes in the night for the two previous nights. BUT he said her ears were fine and she was probably just overstimulated. I have to figure out a different system because Maria and Veronica bug me so much and so loudly when I am trying to put Felicity down for a nap, it feels impossible.

Everyone says, 'she's the fourth!', and that she is just not going to get to take naps and sleep well like the other ones. I have never really liked that, though. I am a big believer in kids getting the sleep they need when they are tiny. It's as important as food to them, I think, and I wouldn't keep FOOD from her just because she's the fourth, right? Because the other kids ate it all up before she was born? It's shoddy logic. And anyway it doesn't work with my kids because they are all sensitive little flowers, fussy poos, wretches, for the first few months, that's just how it is. She is the least fussy of the bunch but I guess even she has her limits.

Anyways, she'll be 15 weeks tomorrow, crazy, right? Onward to four months!

Blessed

Every time we are having a morning like this, when Felicity slept badly and I'm worried that she's sick, and I'm trying to get her down for a nap but her JERKSTORE sisters will not SHUT UP or LEAVE US ALONE, I think "I'm so blessed to be a stay at home mom" and then I laugh and laugh, like this:  ha ha ha boo hoo hoo.

Not really.  It does suck that she is sleeping badly but she'd have to go a LONG way to sleep as badly as everyone else, so she is still okay in my book.  It's so hard to get her to take a nap with these girls here!  They are so unbelievably loud, AND they have to be with me every second of the day, sooooo .. no naps.

I am worried that she is getting sick again, with all these wake ups.  She first woke up at 2:00, then 3:30, then 4:45 and then 6:00 for the day.  She seemed kind of gassy this morning, and I think maybe I'm not burping her enough when she eats in the night?  These damned bottles are killing me, they are such a pain, I feel like I don't know what I'm doing at all.  She usually falls asleep drinking, so I guess I should burp her and then lay her down but sometimes she won't burp or sometimes it wakes her up.  Ugh.

She is really getting super cute, thank God.  She holds her head up really well, she's bringing her hands together and she is cooing more and more.  She was 14 weeks on Monday, so we are really getting there.  I guess before we know it, she'll be four months and then six months and then we'll have a crawling baby, just in time for summer.  I can't wait!

Better

Oh jeez, she is doing better now. She had her third ear infection two weeks ago - three weeks ago? I can't remember, she was AWFUL on a Friday night and I took her to Urgent Care on Saturday and it turned out she had an ear infection in both ears. I am getting better at telling when she has one. She has been through all her antibiotic now and seems fine, so that's good. I took her for her two month shots last week, when she was three months old, because she was sick when she was supposed to get them. They would have given them to her anyway but, um, NO THANKS. She was pretty fussy that afternoon and the next morning but since then she's been fine, sleeping well, can't talk about it, you know the drill.

She is getting so big and starting to really hold up her head. She will sometimes drift off to sleep on her own, which is something no one else has ever done. She is getting sweet and funny.