CO-SLEEPER TO CRIB: DAY 1

After 5 months, the girls have finally outgrown their co-sleeper - literally.  When they lie in the co-sleeper, their heads touch one end and their toes touch the other end. Any movement on their part results in the co-sleeper shaking.  And one morning, we found that Abigail had wiggled herself down and her legs were hanging out of the edge of the co-sleeper.  So, we decided to make use of the two cribs in the nursery and put them in their cribs Friday night. 

How'd it go?  One word:  FAIL.

We started the evening with the normal bedtime routine:  wash face and hands, put on pajamas and then time to eat.  Normally, the girls feed themselves to sleep, but for the past week they've still been somewhat awake when they've finished eating and they normally fall asleep after a few minutes of fussing.  So, it wasn't a surprise to me that they were still awake Friday night after their last feeding.  We wrapped them up and put them in their cribs and said good-night.

And then the fun began.

Abigail found a new decibel in her already wide-range of shrieks and started wailing uncontrollably.  It was as if she was terrified.  Nothing Sean did would console her - and for the first time the 5 S's failed us (swaddle, shush, side, sway, suck).  In the end, the only thing that comforted her was me.  And in a night of new experiences, that was a another new one.  For the first time Abigail would only be consoled by mom and not dad.  During the shreiking, Fiona seemed to be fine being in her crib.  But, you could tell she was getting annoyed with her sister's crying because after a while she started fussing, too.  The shreiking wore on each of us and the inconsollable crying got to us, too. 

In the end, we caved and put them in their co-sleeper for one more night.

Hands and Fists

 Hands. Abigail has recently (within the last 2 weeks) discovered her hands. She’s fascinated by them. She’ll stare at her hand and just watch it do tricks for her: she’ll close it into a fist, open it up and will repeat that over and over. She’ll also face her palm to her face then turn her hand around and she’ll repeat that over and over. Last week she used her newly discovered hands to discover her right ear. Although, it seems like she only notices she has a right ear when I’m feeding her. 

Fists. Fiona has taken to shoving her entire fist in her mouth and chowing down on it. She’s also become a non-stop fountain of drool.  Combine the two and this results in her hands occasionally smelling like feet.  Not that that stops her. I have a feeling that the fist chowing and the constant drool are telltale signs of teething – at least that’s what the internets tell me.  I’ve tried to give her toys to chew on but she hasn’t mastered her hand-eye coordination, yet, so she toy winds up in her eye, rather than her mouth.  And her mouth is still tiny so the toys don’t quite fit in her mouth, which leads her to drop the toy and shove fist in mouth.