My Girls

Thought I should post a little update about the girls, seeing as it's been awhile since I have. Plus I like to talk about them. lol

Addison seems to have entered The Terrible Two's a few months early. She has become very stubborn and the temper tantrums are happening more and more often. She has also begun to really climb things. I am forever catching her on the little table in her bedroom, up on the back of the loveseat sitting facing the window checking stuff out and on the kitchen chairs, which are really only on the way to getting onto the table where I most often find her. When we first brought up the patio furniture, we had put the baby gate up on the deck and Jamie and I were outside playing with her. Lexi woke up to be fed so I went to get her and Jamie went to get us some drinks and before he even had them poured Addy was on top of the patio table.

But even if she is very defiant and has that famous Davidsen Temper, she is still a wonderfully loveable little girl. She likes to give hugs and kisses, and she loves her baby sister more than anyone. She is forever getting up close to her face to look at her and talk to her and she loves to snuggle her and shower her with kisses. She will even try to pick her up of of your lap if you are holding her, or take her out of her bouncy seat. And the scary thing is she can pick her up no problem, so unfortunately for Lexi she doesn't get to chill out on a blanket on the floor.

You can definitely tell that Addy is transitioning from a baby to a toddler when you look at her eating habits. Before she would eat anything and everything and lots of it. Now she is becoming a little bit more picky and will take things out of her mouth that she doesn't like and chuck them across the room. Also, some days she will eat like crazy, but the next day she will hardly touch anything.

She's still on the formula and gets a bottle when she goes down for her nap and at bedtime. I have been debating trying milk again, but I think this time we will try soy milk and see how that goes.

I am anxious to start potty training, although I know it's still too early. We have the little potty in the bathroom and every so often I will sit her on it (still clothed, though) just so she can get used to it. I am just so tired of changing diapers, so I blame that on my anxiousness.

Addy is also learning new words all the time. Unfortunately her grandma taught her Shit when we were in Jasper and now it's not unusual for me to hear "Oh shit!" come out of her mouth. I find that so frustrating and it upsets me to the point that I really think I could cry because I try to be so careful and I was always worried other people's language would result in this. She also has learnt Stick, but that seems to come out as Dick and unfortunately some people don't feel the need to correct her and ennunciate when they speak. Some of the words that don't tick me off that she has now added to her vocabulary are Duck (and any bird is a duck), Daddy (which she says clear as a bell and when I coax her to say Mommy, this is what she comes back with), Hot and Ow.

She has made the adjustment to her toddler bed amazingly well and is back to sleeping through the night I would say about 95% of the time. She is going down well for her naps and I have noticed a real decrease in her making herself throw up (praise the gods!).

Alexis seems to be a completely different baby and sometimes I can barely believe my eyes and ears. She has completely outgrown the colic and is a happy, smiley baby. She was laughing the other day, but I think that is going to be like what her smiling was like. When she first started smiling she was soooooo hard to get to smile, and that seems to be where the laughing is headed. But now she is smiley all the time so hopefully in a few weeks we will get to hear that amazing little giggle on a regular basis. I said to my sister a couple of weeks back that there is nothing more amazing than looking down at your baby when he/she is breastfeeding and having them smile at you, but I think hearing that laugh for the first time might just be right up there with that.

Lexi is definitely on the road to sleeping through the night. I was getting a good 6 hours out for her usually, which is really nothing to complain about. But since I have started trying to get her out of our bed at night and into the bassinet, those stretches have seemed to decrease, but I guess that is to be expected. Soon enough she will be sleeping through the night, though, and she'll be out of the bassinet and into her room, so for now I think I will just cherish these nights where I get to snuggle with her in bed, even if I do get woken up more often than I would like.

This morning we gave the rice cereal another shot. I think this is about the 3rd or 4th time we have tried. Addy started at 4 weeks (no, that's not a type-o, and boy was she ready for it!) so I have tried Lexi a few times since about that age, but she just wasn't ready for it yet. But today she was. Those little arms and legs were flailing and kicking like crazy, and her mouth was open like a little bird waiting for the food in between bites. And when the bite would come, she would slurp it off the spoon like there was no tomorrow! With it taking her so long to be that way, I really find it amazing that Addy did those things at a fraction of Lexi's age.

Lexi has also started rolling over from her tummy to her back. I thought to myself one day that she should be getting close the being able to do it, so I put her on her tummy and she rolled almost immediately.

She's still breastfeeding like crazy, but she is also getting better with the supplementing. I have to hand it to those moms who breastfeed without the occasional supplementing. I sure couldn't do it. Some days by the time the evening rolls around, I just feel so "touched out" that I have to ask Jamie to give her a bottle. And actually, last weekend my sister and I spend an entire day in the city doing some shopping, getting pedicures, saw a movie and just had a girl's day, so Lexi didn't get to breastfeed from about 6:30am until about 9:00pm and she did amazingly well. I, on the other hand, was very full and tender and that was after "taking care of it" twice in the last 5 hours.

Well, Jamie is home from work now, so I guess it's time I go find us some supper.