me and O had a great weekend, it turned out that instead of sitting around with a baby we were super busy and I really enjoyed our girl time. On Friday we started the morning off at the chiro, then my friend Terri came over with lunch and we had coffee and dessert too. We had a really great visit and Ottavia LOVED her, she is starting to play strange but I was happy to say she really took to Terri. Terri is a real baby person so maybe Ottavia got that feel.
When she left an Hour later my friend lisa came over and we ordered dinner in and had some wine. It was great! She helped me put the the babe to bed. Not that its a hard job but Tino and I do it together so it was nice to have the extra help.
On saturday we had a nice quiet morning then ventured out to the mall and got some retail therapy. There is so much cute spring stuff out, I found a lot of great deals and made a few purchases that I normally woudln't that finally involved some color. I really like a yellow, navy and brown sequel so i bought a couple yellow shirts, a navy scarf, and its goinna look good with my brown boots. After the mall we had a visit with my sister...and here is where the mayhem began....
I did it...I did the cry it out method and it was HELL...My most adorable baby was a BAD baby in the night and I have to break this cycle before it breaks ME. I can't believe i tried this by myself when i'm already tired and don't sleep as it is without my husband home. Ottavia went down at her normal time around 730....i had the rest of the evening to myself..well low and behold 1230 came around and she cried out, i went in, she wasn't wet, I know she wasn't hungry, i know she wasn't hot or cold...so i stuck her soother in went back to bed....and we both didn't get back to sleep till 2am. She whined until them, it was never a peircing screeching cry, she got quite mad a couple times but after an hour i went back in...checked to make sure she was okay..which she was, she stopped as soon as I went in so I knew that she just wanted some attention so i left, she cried for another 20 mins and then there was silence...
at 530..again, she woke up crying, so i did not budge, this time it lasted 10 mins........at 610 again..woke up crying...again i did not budge and it lasted 6 mins....thens he woke up at 8am and we started our day...
Did i feel bad..of course, as I googled this method for then entire hour while she cried in the middle of the night without my husband there..did i feel like crying..heck yes...do you know how hard it was for me not to go in there???? SO HARD...but i was strong, i know this is what i need to do for us...I realized people have different ways of parenting, but with discussion to alot of my friends, it sounds like this age can be quite bad when it comes to night intruder's. I even ran into a radiologist i work with today at superstore and i was telling him about my night, he said don't feel bad, we did it for 2 weeks and slept in the basement with earplugs and never went back up till morning.....I"m not that tough...
anyways, here's to hoping for a better night, i showered her with kisses and love and a snuggle in my bed this morning and a fresh warm bottle, she rewarded me with a big smile and lots of love back so she couldn't of been that mad...
anyways..today she was tired, so was momma but we ventured out to my friends for coffee, then for a BIG grocery shop at superstore.....
......tis all in a days work for a momma and I wouldn't change it for the world....
All in all we had a great little weekend together and made the best of no daddy!
Check out my little addidas princess, she wore this in honnor of her daddy today who was busy coaching!!
I always worried when Darryl went away too, as he is a big part of the parenting, but I really enjoy it too. I think when you know you are responsible for everything you just do it all. Also with the boys being older there is fun stuff we do when daddy goes away.
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