I have caved :-( Ellie is crying herself to sleep right now. A couple of weeks ago, things were really starting to improve! We had a good routine down. I have been working for a couple of hours in the daytime and they let me bring Ellie with me. This has helped our routine and she was getting two regular naps. I thought things were going great! Then, she went back to her old no napping self. Tonight she just wouldn't settle. So she is crying. I hate it but I don't know what else to do. I guess I am just going to take this day by day and do whatever works.
In other news....Saturday night I got a much needed girl's night out! I went to Indianapolis to celebrate my friend Kelli's birthday. We ate at PF Chang's. It was delicious! I had never been there before but I intend to go back! I had lettuce wraps and crispy honey chicken. Mmmm...it was so good :-) It was really nice to get to see some old, dear friends. I really enjoyed it. Poor Tyler had a rough time with Ellie. I left at 5 so that he would only have a couple of hours and then he would just put her to bed. Well, she screamed when I left, which was hard, and I guess she didn't improve much. He got her to bed and then he sent me a message at 11 that she had been up for an hour and wouldn't go back to sleep. So, I headed home. Poor Tyler.
This weekend we finally got a video camera! I have been so sad that we were missing all these moments. We borrowed a camera for Ellie's birth, so we have footage of her right after she was born. But we have missed the rest of her first eight months! So before we miss anything else we went ahead and got one. We got a hard drive camcorder so as soon as I get something good recorded, I can post a video!
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Maybe she's going through a little growth spurt??
How nice that you get to take Ellie with you!
What exactly have you been doing with her to get her down for naps that has been working so well?
How exciting that you got a camcorder! We have one...but a friend of mine borrowed it in college and broke the charger. So we haven't been able to use it at all :-( I have said numerous times that we need to see if we can get a new charger. Maybe your videos will spark us to find one!
For naps I have just been nursing her to sleep, for the first one, and holding her. It gets kinda boring but at least I have a rested baby! :-) For the second one she usually falls asleep on the way home and I just bring her in the house in her carrier and let her sleep there.
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