Baby Log: Week 38

I'm still in the blogger weeds, but I am determined to keep up with the baby log. So here goes...

• My first Mother's Day was "interesting." I woke up tired because our little night-waker would not sleep more than 1-2 hours at a time and also because I was keeping an eye on Damon's labored breathing. The next morning he looked like hell, I felt like hell, and Marlie was acting like a hellion. I finally decided to take matters into my own hands and hauled Damon's butt to Urgent Care where he received a diagnosis of an upper respiratory infection brought on by severe allergies (aw, springtime!). They gave him a shot of steroids for the inflammation and a prescription for an inhaler. He took one puff of that thing and the tightness in his chest was gone. I was relieved, but the day was gone. We were all too tired to go out. I was even too tired to take my gift out of the box. I got a sewing machine! I can't wait to take a class and start making Marlie dresses and tutus and doll clothes!
  
• Momma Bear's next move was to investigate the night-waking. We changed out the scratchy sheets. We bought a CD player and streamed lullabies. But the break in the case appeared on Thursday...a third tooth is coming in, an incisor on the upper deck, right field. Once the swelling went down, she was sleeping more soundly. But, my body clock hasn't readjusted and I'm still waking up anticipating her cries.
  
• Marlie is almost sleeping through the night, until 4/4:30 am. She wakes up around midnight, but Damon goes in and hushes her back to sleep. I attribute this to the extra food she's been eating at dinner. Girlfriend has discovered her appetite, and I'm loving it! Around 6 pm, I nurse her and then give her some oatmeal with applesauce. She eats it all! Then I sleep nurse her around 8:30/9 pm. So far this method is working like gangbusters. She has also been eating half a scrambled egg at breakfast.
  
• After months of da-da this and daddy that, she is finally saying mama, but it comes out meh-meh and she only says it when she wants to nurse. She could actually be saying milk. Who knows?
• We went out to dinner on Saturday. Marlie took a keen interest in one of the waiters. She just stared at him as he poured our water, then she followed him around the restaurant with her eyes. He smiled at her when he noticed her staring and she giggled! Now way, you say?! It gets better! He comes over to say hello and she sticks out her hand as if to say, au chante! Isn't she too young to be flirting?
• I won a coupon for a free carton of Silk Almond Milk from The Cloth Diaper Report this week. :->