Needing Advice from Wise Ones

Okay, so John used to tell people that Abby was a hard baby and would cry a lot and was naughty when actually she was very sweet and good. Now she is a naughty baby! The last 3 nights she has been up for over 1 1/2 hours at some point and has been waking up 3 times a night for the past week. She's not hungry because it's always just 2 hours apart from each other and she used to sleep all night or wake up only once. On top of that she no longer cries herself to sleep. She will cry and cry for hours until I come get her. Poor John had to get up this morning and go to work after I let Abby cry from 5am-6:45am (she had already been fed at 3am and was wide awake wanting to play). Finally I went and got her. Three minutes into nursing her she was asleep (She wasn't hungry at all! Just wanted Mommy). This all started when she learned to roll over. Now she wakes up on her tummy all the time and can't go back to sleep. She can't roll back over onto her back so she cries and cries. I'm thinking of putting her in the carseat for the night so she can't roll over and see if that works. I don't want her to get in the habit of waking up 3 times and needing mom to put her back to sleep. John and I are exhausted and it's like having a newborn all over again! Help!! What should we do?

Rollie Pollie

Abby is a rolling over fool! She can roll from back to tummy no problem. She has difficulty going from tummy to back but I'm sure she will get it soon. If she gets enough momentum she can flip back over no problem but sometimes she gets too tired so she yells for mom to come help. Here is a video of her flipping over. It's a little long but this was my first time getting it on video!

On another note, Abby LOVES her toes. She's always grabbing them and wrapping her hands around her feet. In the video you even see her eating her big toe!

Sometimes Abby is so good and content that she will just snuggle in with you and watch whatever you are watching. Here she is watching PTI with John.

Poolside Temptress

We love to go to the pool now that it is getting hot and Abby loves to see all the people. We usually go after 6pm so it's cooler outside and not as sunny. Abby is so cute in her little bathing suit. Here she is giving me the look.

A whole body shot!

I love the hat!

When we take Abby out of her car seat to go swimming, everyone looks at her and smiles. People here just love seeing babies. Especially one a beautiful as Abby!

Chicago, Albany, and Boston... Oh My!

We took a vacation over Memorial Day to visit John's family and friends in Albany, New York. We had a great time. The trip started out with us getting up at 4:30am to leave for the airport by 5am. Note to self: Early flight = Bad for Abby. Everything was fine until we got on the airplane. Abby is independent and usually doesn't like to be held when she wants to play or go to sleep. She has been awake this whole time so after 3 hours of awake time she's getting kind of cranky because mom is holding her on the airplane. Luckily the seat behind us was empty so John went and sat there while Abby played on the seat next to me and eventually fell asleep. Then we had a 4 hour layover in Chicago (hence the city in the title). We may as well have gone sight seeing for all the time we spent in Chicago. Again Note to Self: Don't do Layovers with babies/children. So finally we get to New York. Yea!!! Sunday we went to the Farm to see John's Grandparents. New York is so beautiful in the spring. It was fun just driving out there and seeing all the trees so green. We also had dinner with the Stevenson's and Abby got smothered by the adoring children. Luckily she is so good natured that she just took everything in stride! Monday we went to a Stake Picnic and had the opportunity to see a lot of friends, John went golfing with the guys and later in the day we went Wakeboarding with the new In-Laws (thank you Doug). John golfed another time during the week and played basketball with the men. Abby got to meet John's friends from high school and other influential people in his life. Here are some pictures of family with Abby.

Aunt Jenny with her Niece Abby.

Grandpa playing with Abby

Grandma getting all snuggly with Abby.

Our 5 Year Anniversary was on Friday, May 29th. We had the opportunity to get away and go to Boston just the two of us (thanks to Grandma and Grandpa). We had a wonderful time and I only called to check on Abby once! We stayed in the Renaissance Marriott on Congress Street and here was the view from our room.

We had a bay view (that's the Boston Trade Center with all the flags). We walked the Freedom Trail, John loves History, and learned so much about the Revolution and the history of the United States. Then we went to the Boston Childrens Museum. It is only $1 on Fridays from 5-9pm so we took a look and can't wait to bring our children there in the future. Then we got all gussied up and went out to dinner at Bricco's. I had some fantastic Gnocchi which I would recommend if anyone goes there. The next morning we headed back to Albany where Mike and Tina had such a great time with Abby that they decided they wouldn't mind having another child! We left Sunday morning and headed home to Austin. Once again, Abby didn't like being held or the 3 hour layover in Chicago but there was nothing we could do about that. Overall we had a great trip and can't wait to see our New York Family and Friends again! Come visit!

Thug Princess

Abby received this nightgown with a hoodie. I think she looks like a thug. I love it.

Abby throwing out the peace sign

Abby beatboxin'

Break Dancing