Almost Six Months

 I always really look forward to the babies being six months old, and Felicity is no exception.  I like it better when they can sit up, cry a little before they go to sleep, etc.  I have been putting her down awake for naps and it's going about like you'd expect.  She is used to DRINKING until she falls asleep, so first I had to try and break her of that and now just expecting her to fall asleep in her bassinet seems like a lot.  She is flipping over to her belly a lot and it makes her MAD so we are dealing with that.  I am often tired and impatient and I also am just doing it a few days a week, so I have a feeling that I have to JAM in all this training on the days when the girls are in school, or we are not off to the library, or I have to exercise, or something.  I'm going to try to lighten up on it a little bit and we'll see how it goes. 

She is, as I say, rolling over and it's super cute.  She pushes up on her belly but that's it.  She won't sit up at all, unless she's assisted and then she seems to get a big kick out of it.  I sit her up in her bassinet and put the boppy around her and she's so cute.  She's like, soooooo!  this is sitting up!  I like it!  She is very kissy and sweet and I am madly in love with her, except when she is screamy and coughy and won't take a damned nap, ha! 

Sleeping

Felicity was 23 weeks old yesterday and while she is a good night time sleeper, man does she suck at it during the day.  The girls are in school on Monday and Tuesday, and I've been trying to use those days to train her to nap but it's not going well.  It's so, so disheartening.  When she was newly born and I spent all of the five hours that the girls were in school holding her or rocking her or entertaining her, I thought 'well at least it won't last forever'.  I thought I'd have time to sit, to eat, to go to the bathroom, to exercise.  Turns out it's NOT TRUE.  She is in her room right now, screaming away, it's 12:freaking 30, she hasn't taken a nap today except for like ten minutes in my arms, she is getting really tired and crazy.  I know what's going to happen is that she's going to fall asleep at 1:35 and I'm going to have to wake her up at 1:45 to go get the girls and then the rest of the afternoon will suck, too.

She is rolling over like a crazy person and I do mean crazy, because she hates it when she gets on her belly but she can't stop from rolling over to her belly.  I ordered an exersaucer/jumper thing yesterday, I HATE to buy more equipment to jam into this already crowded and messy house but I have to, I have to have somewhere to put her.  She is crawling out of the bouncy seats and swings and she hates lying on the blanket or in the pack and play.  She can't sit up yet so the only option is for me to hold her and I can't do it all day.  I have to eat every meal during the day standing up and WAVING, usually, to get some peace.  I don't think this is supposed to last this long, right?  She should be lying the hell down on her own?  I think one of the problems is that she seems to always want to drink a bottle up until she falls asleep and sometimes I run out of what's in the bottle because it is a FINITE AMOUNT and I don't know how to handle it.  It is reason 934 why I wish I could have nursed this baby.

So.  Long story short - almost six months old, has to get tubes, four ear infections in five months, never sleeps, screaming and crying all day long.  Situation normal.