Is it Monday?

I sort of hate to ask that questions since so many people are working right now, but I definitely keep forgetting what day it is.  At least Jayden's and Carmen's schedule helps me out somewhat.  So I did figure out that today is Monday.

We're making progress, but it's slow.  After a few nights where we got three or four hours between feedings, Dakota decided to switch it up and give me only about two hours between each feeding - 8ish, 11ish, 1 am, 3 am, 5 am, etc.  It was pretty brutal, especially because she doesn't nurse and just go back to sleep.  She nurses and then we have to get her back to sleep.  Which is not easy, especially considering her gas and fussiness issues.

And then last night, she nursed at 10:45 pm and then not again until about 3:30 am.  It did take me until about 12:30 am to get her settled and asleep, but that still means I got about three hours of sleep.  Woo hooo!  At 3:30 she barely woke up, so I nursed her and pretty much put her back down after burping her for a minute.  That meant she was back asleep by about 4:30, and so was I.  And then at 5:30 she decided to fuss again.  I thought I could get Carmen to settle her because I couldn't imagine she was hungry again - and I actually think she wasn't hungry, but we couldn't get her to settle either.  So I fed her again at 6:00 am.  And then she took a nap for an hour or so, and then was awake and pleasant for about an hour!  I fed her, after dropping Jayden off at Juju's, and now she's napping, in her pack n play, all by herself.  That is where she "beats" Jayden; I don't think he slept in anything but our arms or a bouncer or swing until he was four months old.  I'm hoping this means the transition to a crib will be better. We'll see.

She can be very charming while she is awake - making cute noises and faces.  She's even given me a few pretty giant smiles (and not just while she's pooping).

This is a tiny example while she's sleeping.  She's actually given me a couple pretty giant toothless grins, but they're hard to capture because they usually appear when she's looking at my face, not at the back of my phone/camera.  I'll keep trying.

Jayden still asks every day if he's going to school, and if not, when he's going to school.  He's ridiculously excited.  We have our projects to do (an "about me" picture collage that we get to put together) so we're going to work on that today.  He requested pictures of: him swimming, him playing soccer, him running "realllly fast," him on a slide, Paw Patrol, Lightning McQueen and marbles.  So apparently that's Jayden in a nutshell.  I had to suggest that he include a picture of his family.  :)  I'll put up a picture of the finished product.

We've had a beautiful weekend of summer rain and thunderstorms.  Unfortunately the humidity is insane - it has been 90+ degrees and rainy for the last three days.  The good thing about summer rain is it's still warm enough to play outside when it's raining.  Yesterday, after his nap, we had watched a couple of shows, and needed to find something else to do.  He really wanted to run around, even though he had run around at a birthday party (for his swim partner Maxwell's younger brother) and at soccer class.  So I suggested he put on his swim trunks and go play outside.  And it was awesome.

Walking carefully on the slippery tiles.  

I love his little shoulder blades.

Not sure what he was doing here, but this was definitely after he said "Mom, watch this!" and proceeded to lick the concrete.  All I could get out was "Jayden!  No, just - no, no, that's not - no.  No licking the concrete."  One of those "you know you're a parent when" moments - never thought I'd need to say those four words in a sentence together.

Rain Dancing!

And a couple Mommy/Daddy photos to finish it off:

Under the umbrella in the rainstorm, watching Jayden dance it up.

Asleep on Daddy's chest.
This is the outfit she came home from the hospital in.  When we brought her home from the hospital we had to roll the sleeves up.  Now the sleeves come to just below her elbows.  She's growing so fast!