Naps Updated

She's napping again regularly. Recently we went to the Animal Park and Legoland and Mary went a couple of days without any naps. She was a trouper and slept pretty good at night. However, I found that I was again up at night feeding her 3 times a night. So last night I just held her when she woke up and stopped feeding her at night. It actually went pretty well. I did feed her when it got light out and then she slept until 9am. Then she took 2 naps both over an hour and a half long today! The day before yesterday she went to bed at 7pm and woke up a few times in the night but then didn't wake up for the day until 9:15am! She's been a sleeper baby. But she's also getting in her two top front teeth. So teething may be a reason why she's so sleepy. Hopefully she feels a little better soon and starts eating more solid food and less milk. We'll try and get a picture of her teeth when they come in.

Legoland and Fun

Grandma Kay just came out for about a week and our friends Terilynn and family too. We went to Legoland and the San Diego Wild Animal Park. We live right next to Legoland and we had a lot of fun so maybe we'll get a season pass for it. Mary had a great time playing in the Lego Duplo room and the cool air helped since it was really hot that day. Mary also liked the different flavors of ice cream. She got a taste of everyones. Tristyn and Logan (Terilynn's kids) loved Legoland and even went for two days instead of just one. There's lots of kids rides and pretty good food there.

It was pretty hot when we went to the Wild Animal Park too but we had a good time looking at all the animals. Mary's favorite part was the Carosel. We missed the petting zoo. (It was closed by the time we got to it.) So we'll have to go again soon. Personally, I prefer the Zoo as opposed to the Wild Animal Park, but they both have animals so they're pretty similar. We did get to go on the African Safari Tour, which takes you on a bus through the habitats of the animals. They used to have you drive through in your car, but I think animals got hurt and people so they stopped doing that.

We had a great time. And soon, we're going to go to Disneyland in July for Mary's birthday. We'll keep you posted.

Home from Nor Cal

So we're back home from northern california. We visited Patty and her new baby Emily, Master Rick and Jenny, Grandma Spring, Auntie Sherilyn and Jessica and cousin Kailee (not sure of how she spells it though), Aunite Jen, Grandma Deb and Grandpa Al, Brian and friends and for the most fun we got to see cousin Carol Ann. Carol Ann is exactly 7 months older but her and Mary play together pretty well. They give hugs and kisses and are good at being gentle with each other.

We had quite a week last week. We kept a pretty hectic pace and Mom is pretty warn out. But Mary was a party animal and kept up pretty well. We went to yosemite one day and played in the grass. We also went out to dinner on a couple of nights. Grandma Kay was nice enough to take care of the little munchkins to while me and Diane went to Derrick's graduation in Davis. He recieved his PhD last week and now works at UC Merced. It was also Diane's brother Brian's 24th birthday. We celebrated with Sishi and Italian food, and some beers.

We're hoping that we can go to Salem, OR (where Carol Ann lives) in October to celebrate Halloween with her. The girls will both be walking by then (Carol Ann has been for a few months) and they'd love going out and meeting new people I'm sure. They both love other kids and maybe Mary will have more teeth so she could eat some of the candy. We live in apartments right now so it'd be hard to trick or treat here anyways. But we've got a lot planned this year so we'll see how we feel when it comes time to buy the tickets. We miss them a lot though.

This week Grandma Kay comes out to visit and we're going to go to the Wild Animal Park and Legoland. That's going to be fun. Hopefully we'll get some sleep in there somewhere.
Talk to ya'll later.

Nap Schedule

I did put her on a nap schedule and it worked like a charm. On a normal day she takes a nap at 10:30am and 2:30pm. Usually one nap is for an hour and the other for an hour and a half to two hours. Then she goes to bed at 8pm and is up by 8am. (She does wake up at like 6am for a feeding and then at like 7:15am or so for another one. But then goes quickly back to sleep.) If I let her stay up in the morning instead of putting her back to bed til 8am she's cranky. Now she's doing much better with sleeping. She's a happy baby when she's on a schedule. Otherwise she's like this all day. (See below.)

Then no one's happy. It'll be interesting to see what happens when we go on vacation. I'm hoping she'll just be excited to get out of the house that she won't notice her schedule's all messed up. We will see. Wish me luck!

10 months old and off to see Grandma

Mary turned 10 months old on June 3rd. And now we're off to Northern California on Sunday to see family and friends. Peas and Diane will meet us up there. It'll be so good for the girls to see each other again. The main reason for us traveling to nor cal is Derrick's graduation. He's getting his PhD in Physics and now we have to call him Dr. Kiley. :)

We'll be gone about a week and returning next saturday before Father's Day. (Gotta be home for that.) Then after we get back we're going to go to Legoland and the Wild Animal Park with grandma Kay and some friends. Then in July we're celebrating Mary's birthday a little early at Disneyland. Lots of fun.

We'll let you know if she starts walking or talking or anything. So far she's walking with her walker a lot and standing with support a lot. I'll post another blog when we get back from vacation.

Love, Mom

P.S. She did actually get a full tooth in and she's teething right now for her second tooth. So now she has 1.1 teeth instead of just half a tooth. But she you'd be surprised at what she can eat with only 1.1 teeth!