It’s just easier to do these together now! First lets start with the little one, who is now 5 months old! Sometimes it’s so hard to think, even what to write down to remember. LG is adorable, and very happy. She loves to be held and when all else fails, hold her and she is content. She is a laid back baby. She is still on her Zantac for the acid reflux and I think it contributes to her not sleeping very often. She often goes 4 to 6 hours without sleeping, which I think is a bit much for a 5 month old.

It’s hard when she stays awake a really long time, hard because I just need to be able to spend some alone time with BG every once in a while.  It’s also a lot harder to get LG to sleep, she doesn’t nurse to sleep very often. Instead I have to wait for the “right moment” to rock her (which if I wait for the right moment, is not too hard, if I do it too early, I might have to throw rocks). Just like BG, she never falls asleep any place else. Not on her play mate or her swing, on her blanket or the floor. Only in my arms, or the car seat. Period.

I thought the older ones baby cry tore my soul apart, but with the little one it’s distinctly different. It is the most pitiful little cry you have ever heard, and anyone, even my husband can’t stand to have her cry for more then a little bit. She sounds so pained and sad! She also does not cry to sleep, BG used to cry for about 10 minutes in her car-seat when she was tired, and then pass out cold. LG, nope. She won’t stop crying and I’ve never gone past 10 minutes and I think that twice total , but it just is such a pitiful cry. Plus she falls asleep MUCH quicker in the car seat then BG, fusses a bit and then she is out. If the little one is crying, she really means it and until you pick her up and feed her or hold her, she will not stop. Luckily that is not very often anyway.

LG loves to smile and laugh, and she thinks Toby (our dog) is really funny. We have not started any people food yet. She has shown major sensitivity to anything I drink/eat so I’m waiting as long as possible to do that.

Big sister BG has had a rough few weeks as far as sleep goes. She’s not napping most days, and sleeping less time at night and waking up a lot, she historically has been a rock solid sleeper (once she got to bed) so this is a bit different for us to deal with. I wish very much I could go be with her in the middle of the night, but I have to feed the little one so it’s just not an option. The husbeast has BG’s monitor, and I have LG’s. I don’t suppose we will need a monitor for BG much longer, which will be really nice! She sleeps with her door closed, because our house is rather small and we would wake her up at night otherwise (Toby often likes to go clack-clacking down the hallway). Then we have our door also closed so I can watch a bit of tv while I knit at night, so the monitors are very helpful.

So big sister is doing very well. We have noticed a jump in her speech and vocabulary so the lack of sleep may be due to a growth spurt. She’s gone through a few rough weeks of “mine mine, no thats mine” (however she has been really good about understanding what’s the babies, she just likes to say random objects are hers, or things that are already hers). I keep trying to come up with fun activities to do with her beyond drawing but she hasn’t seem to taken interest in anything else, ideas are welcome! Things she can do by herself, like drawing or play-dough.

Well I’ll never get this blog post out if I don’t post it, it’s been sitting here in edit mode for 2 days!