Emily's sleep training starts

Last night was Emily's first night of sleep training.  I decided on Sunday night that I was done getting up with that baby.  She acts like she is starving everytime she wakes up but I know better.  We put the girls to bed at eight and Emily was crying at midnight.  First David wanted to give it a try, he said it would be better in case she could smell me.  I went in after a couple minutes and he was giving her an infant massage.  Oh my daddy, I think I'd rather feed her every couple of hours than gave her an infant massage every couple of hours!  I sent him back to bed and started the pick-up, put-down method.  Pick-up, put-down is when you pick up the crying baby and calm them down (usually takes a couple of seconds) and as soon as they have stopped crying, you lay them back in their crib.  Well I looked back at my blog post when I started this with Haley and Haley's first night I picked her up and put her down "over twenty times."  Emily gave up after three times, haha.  I think she is going to be a little bit more compliant than Haley.  After that Emily slept seven hours through until morning.  She woke up around 7 and I fed her and she went back to sleep for two and a half more hours.  We just called that her morning nap.  I hope this was not just some kind of dumb luck, we'll see tonight!

David did not have to work today but he did have to go in for a meeting so he was gone most of the morning.  Haley, Emily and I got dressed and then started in on laundry.  I might as well warn you now that we did not have a very exciting day.  Emily took two naps which ended up adding up to over five hours of sleep.  She must be growing or something.  Needless to say, she was not on the scene very much today.  Haley tried to spice things up by having a couple accidents.  Just pee but still rather irritating.  I wonder if she was just trying to get some attention since I was cleaning most of the day.  One of her accidents was right by the window and she got pee on one of my curtains.  It worked out that I was doing laundry anyways.

Daddy came home for lunch and we had BLTs and then I organized the girl's dresser before naps.  Emily is growing out of her 3 month clothes and really needs to be wearing 6 months.  The only problem is that most of the 6 month stuff is summery so I am waiting for it to get warmer.  Today is supposedly the coldest day of this week and by Saturday it's supposed to be 80 so I think we'll be wearing summer clothes by then.

David started working on the roof while the girls slept and he was still on the ladder when Haley woke up.  The part that fell off is right by our bedroom window so I folded laundry on the bed and left the window open so Haley could talk to Daddy.  She called it "helping Daddy," it was super cute.  Basically she was just talking to him but I guess that is a help.  Emily was still completely out so I put the monitor by the window and Haley and I took the van downtown to pick up some tortillas from a Mexican place (Pollo Cacuchon in case you know, I know Aunt Rin does!).  When we got there Haley had to use the bathroom so we used their potty, bought our tortillas, and headed home.  Haley was very aware that Emily was not with us, she talked about her a lot of the time.  Emily woke up shortly after we got home, she was all smiles after sleeping over three hours.

We had invited the Caldwells over for dinner because they were out of town for the weekend and driving back today.  There is nothing worse than getting home from a roadtrip around dinnertime and having to make dinner so I told them to just come to our house.  I heated up some pork and we had pork tacos.  I was a little embarrassed when I realized that the last time we had them over, we had pork tacos.  I thought of this just as we were sitting down to eat so there was nothing I could do at that point.  They both said they liked them last time and they were happy to have them again so I hope they were telling the truth.  Emily had sweet potatoes and then played around in the Johnny jump-up.  The kids ate and then played and we caught up with Ben and Amanda.  Amanda had brought some brownies which worked out because I hadn't started making the cookies I had planned on.  They stayed until around eight and then headed home.  Haley and Emily were both starting to get tired so we gave them their snacks and then put them to bed.  Pray that Emily does well tonight!

Haleyism:
Haley was talking about Emily and telling me she is "soo cute."

Emilyism:
Emily only needs sleep training for when she wakes up at night.  She goes to sleep by herself initially, it's just during the night that she struggles.  When I looked back at Haley's sleep training it seems that most of the work was putting her down at the beginning of the night.  I guess I fed her to sleep more or something, sorry Haley!

Haley loves to snuggle with Daddy

Hiding in his sweatshirt

SPECIAL NOTE! 

I just had David go check the mail and our cd from our photo shoot just arrived!  Here is a sampling: