Well, we went down the dreaded path: sleep training. With Maggie this was arduous, tortuous, and seemingly endless. Tess was beginning to require hours of street-walking to fall deeply asleep before she could be transferred successfully to her crib for the night. While this was alright at our house and built up my arm muscles, and included a lot of socializing with the neighbors, it was getting a bit out of hand and this new neighborhood is too busy. Plus, soon she will be big and strong enough to catapult herself out of her crib if she decides she's unhappy being in there. So we bit the bullet last week and just went for it. The first night, she cried a little bit and we went in a number of times to whisper soothing parent words in her ear. It took her half an hour to go to sleep and she didn't wake up any more or earlier than normal that night. The next night I put her in her crib again, and she went right to sleep. No tears. No fussing. Not even any squirming. And the night after that. And after that. And the nap after that. We now have a baby that we can put in her crib, give a kiss, and walk away from. And she will go to sleep. Astonishing!
And Tess is mobile now too. Not crawling mobile. But rolling all over the heck. She can travel from one end of a room to the other just by going from back to tummy to back to tummy. Goodbye setting her in the middle of the bed and brushing my teeth! Maggie thinks it's pretty funny to watch her roly-poly herself around. I think she's happy about being a tiny bit in control of some locomotion too.
There's also been new food for Tessa. Applesauce and bananas are her number one choice. Green beans have not been her favorite at all. Her little sour face is precious! I almost want to keep feeding them to her just to see her make the face. And she's so eager to please that she'll just keep opening her mouth for the next bite. We'll see this week what she thinks of carrots and sweet potatoes.
