Avery and I picked up Rachele and Elise today. They had a good flight home, which is always a good thing to hear when picking up a toddler. We stayed over at their house a while to play after dropping them off. Avery is now asleep in the carseat, so I'm getting a little break. Actually, a much bigger break than I expected.
We think Avery is pushing her bedtime back to 7 or even 8. She's waking up later in the mornings around 7:30 or 8:00, but doesn't seem ready to go to bed at 6:30. I welcome this change. First, I get to sleep in more. Second, if Avery is indeed pushing to a 7:30 bedtime, we can eat together as a family most nights. I think this will reallly help out with her interest in eating non-baby food.
Speaking of eating, she ate a few penne noodles today left over from last nights dinner. This is big because she traditionally has spit noodles out immediately. I think she did eat a few mac & cheese noodles at lunch the other day, but I wasn't sure she actually swalled them. Today I know she took several bites out. I think part of our issue is that it's key she have a longer or flatter piece of food to grab onto. She doesn't normally let me put something in her mouth, so that is out. But she also seems distrustful (or something) of chunks of food. But if it's long and thin, or flat and square, she'll almost always pick it up and try it. At least, this is what I've observed. We'll see how true that continues to be.
This weekend might as well be an adoption-themed weekend. Tomorrow, D and I are off to a class called What and When: Talking with Your Child About Adoption. I have taken another class with the instructor and she is excellent, so I'm looking forward to this. The G's have graciously agreed to watch Avery, which is most generous considering they both have been traveling all week. On Sunday, we're participating in a study of adoptive families, so someone is coming to our house to interview us. We love to talk about ourselves (well, I do, have you seen this blog?), so that should be enjoyable. We quite enjoyed our homestudy process because we got to answer questions about ourselves.
I called my colorist to make an appointment to get my hair highlighted (yes, I have a different colorist than hair cutter - long, boring story). Turns out she gave up her chair at the salon she was working at and is now a traveling colorist. So she's coming over here to do my hair next weekend, then I'll head over to the salon for a haircut. One more week with two inch long roots and hair that hasn't been cut in five months.
Ack! I am so jealous that Avery sleeps in that late. My Avery used to sleep until 9 or 10 before Cayden was born. But she was also up until 9 or 10 at night, so it's a definite trade-off. Now, I'm not sure how I would manage without any kid-free evening time.
ReplyDeleteDon't be too jealous. She woke up at 6 am this morning. On my morning. Bummer.
ReplyDeleteThat is so funny because Josie decided to sleep in today, on NOT my morning. Arg.
ReplyDeleteOliver is starting to trend to the one-nap per day thing too. This AM he did just the thing you outlined where he was awake from about 4:30 - 5:30a and then fell asleep again until 8am. I thought I was in heaven.
ReplyDeleteGood first foods that Oliver loved were beans, watermelon, canned fruit (full of sugar, I know!), cut up banana, cheerios or those little puffs you find in the babyfood section.
-Susan