I Did It!

I listened to every song in our ITunes in alphabetical order. All 1802 songs, 5 days 1 hour 36 minutes and 38 seconds worth. Ok not entirely true. I shamelessly skipped any Michael Jackson or marching band song if I was close to the computer. But I listened to all the rest of them. I used to set my ITunes on random but some songs never got played while others were played all the time. I felt bad for the songs that were being left out so I set it to go alphabetically and let it roll. I started on May 8 and finished yesterday. I feel better having now given equal opportunity to all my songs.

p.s. five_solas- I'm blanking on who you are! Comment or email me and let me know!

Another Post About Baby Sleep (Don't You Have Anything Else To Write About?)

While I am patiently waiting for my parents to send pictures from the wedding, I thought I'd update you on Sienna's sleep. She has turned into quite a good sleeper. If she is swaddled up tight and on her side in the sleep positioner thingie, she gives us good stretches at night. It was 3-4 hours but the past few nights its been 6-8 hours. Of course since I'm writing this tonight, she'll be up every 1.5 hours. She will sleep swaddled on her side for naps but it often takes a long time to get her really asleep so mostly she sleeps in my Moby wrap. During Kiran's nap time, I usually am able to get her down for a nap in her bassinet. I am so thankful that she is sleeping better. I don't think she is colicky- she is fussy in the evenings but still has some quiet awake time even then. I think we just had a really hard second week there.

Jonathan & I were nervous about sleeping in a hotel room with both the kids together. Kiran doesn't have a good track record of sharing a room with us (even though she did it well the first 9 months when we all shared a room- since then not so much). If Kiran wakes up at night and sees we are in there then she doesn't want to go back to sleep. My parents had brought Kiran back to the hotel and put her down before we got home from the rehearsal dinner. I stayed in their adjoining room till Sienna fell asleep at 11:30. The next thing I know its 6:45am and Sienna had slept all night. We thanked the Lord first thing when we woke up.

Things We Learned

Ten things we learned while on our trip to Bristol TN/VA to help Erin Lucas get married.

1. Sienna hates long car rides. With a passion. With a loud shrieking passion.
2. Kiran does not do well without a nap. She really actually falls apart.
3. The new part of 26 between Asheville and Johnson City is one of the prettiest drives in the Southeast.
4. If you put the flowergirl dress on the front door, it will still be there when you return.
5. JC Penney doesn't sell little girl's dresses this time of year.
6. Thankfully Belk does.
7. Instead of having multiple poops per day, Sienna likes to save hers up and have one massive explosion once a day.
8. Sienna can sleep from 11:30-6:45 without eating or waking up.
9. It takes four adults to successfully make it through a bridesmaids luncheon, rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, night at a hotel, pictures, wedding and reception with two kids.
10. We wouldn't have made it in one piece without my Mom and Dad going with us! Thank you!

Watching Pictures

Kiran doesn't watch tv unless its the weekend and we've got sports or HGTV on. We don't even have our DVD player hooked up so she doesn't watch videos. BUT this week she has started watching our screen saver on our computer. We have it set to display the pictures in our mypictures folder and she loves seeing them all go by! She talks about everyone in the pictures. She'll sit for more than half an hour watching the pictures!

This is Kiran watching the pictures today after her 2.5 hour nap (during which Sienna slept 2 hours IN HER OWN BED!).

Every Little Bit Helps...

Thanks for your support and encouragement. It really is nice to know I'm not alone. ItsAMomThing- I don't think it was a coincidence that I stopped by your house today before I even read your comment.

Today was a little better.... Sienna slept in her bassinet for 2.5 hours straight last night! She had a few short happy awake times- even in the evening! After getting home from Greenville, she slept in her carseat in our bedroom for an hour!

But, as my dad says, babies aren't linear so I know not to expect those things tonight and tomorrow. I will enjoy whatever I get. Thankfully we have such a huge support system here.

Oh Girl

So..... seems like we got us another fussy baby. Kiran was fussy but not to the point of colic. Sienna however seems well on her way to colic. The biggest problem is that she is very hard to get to sleep and she will only stay asleep if someone is holding her. Thankfully she will *usually* sleep in the wrap. I honestly don't know what I would do if she didn't. Anyhow.... she's not screaming anymore after we got over the stomach stuff. She's just fussing. Almost all of her awake minutes. BUT we're only a month away from peak fussiness and by November this should all be past. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

I feel very alone having a fussy/almost colicy baby. I don't know if people don't talk about it or if I truly am alone. Sometimes it seems as though there is some big Mommy secret out there that I don't know about how to have a calm baby. If you have an easy baby, I'm sincerely jealous. If you have a fussy baby, I feel your pain.

And we're accepting volunteers to come over and hold our baby.

What can I say?

The past 36 hours all 4 of us have been battling tummy troubles. Nothing too serious- just a little rumbling. But poor Sienna just screams and will fall asleep but wakes up if you put her down. I called in the reinforcements of my MIL and her best friend (aka my other MIL) to come hold the baby today. I can handle fussing but the screaming was absolutely tearing me up. Thankfully they came and held Sienna so she could sleep and fed and took care of Kiran so I was free to go get my bridesmaid's dress altered. I had been stressing over that b/c the wedding is next weekend and I wasn't quite fitting in the dress! But God sent me to the right seamstress via the yellow pages today and she totally took care of everything.

Thankfully Sienna still slept pretty well last night so I'm hoping she'll do the same again tonight. I really hope she's feeling better tomorrow (and the rest of us- I think it was something we ate but we can't figure out what).