Not a dinner roll.
I woke up one morning and realized that at some point in the night she had rolled onto her stomach. Anyone who has had a baby in the last 10 years knows that BABIES DO NOT SLEEP ON THEIR STOMACHS! "Back to sleep" is the slogan they drill into your head before you're even allowed to leave the hospital. Posters, videos, paperwork - it all says BACK TO SLEEP and before you know it you're mumbling the slogan in your sleep and getting mad at yourself everytime you fall asleep on your stomach.
I wasn't sure how to battle this problem because she's been pretty slow to learn how to roll back to her back. I started swaddling her at night (we had stopped because it was getting a little warm outside and in our older house the air conditioner doesn't always make it upstairs) but the swaddle seemed to give her more momentum. She'd start rocking back and forth and then finally PLOP she's on her stomach again.
So until she learns to roll on her back I spend my nights listening for muffled noises so that I can fly out of bed and roll her back.
She did NOT want me to see her roll either. Every time she did it I was out of the room. I would hide around the corner of the door or under blankets in the corner so she couldn't see me. Of course she would roll for Wes or Carol (the daycare lady) but not for Mommy.
On top of rolling she's been moving a lot. I don't know how else to explain it other than 'moving'. I will put her in the middle of the room on her blanket and come back 5 minutes later and she's magically turned upside down huddling in the corner of the room. Or I will wake up in the morning and she's some how jumped out of the pack-n-play and is laying in the dirty laundry pile in the closet. Maybe that's a little far but it truly is baffling to me how she maneuvers her way around. It's more of a shuffle that is oddly similar to the shuffle of me squeezing into my pre-pregnancy jeans. Maybe that's where she learned it.
Just a warning to all of you - she's a talker. You have all experienced my talking and talking and talking, just wait til this one can form words! She's constantly jibbering and screaming and shrieking about one thing or the other. She even does it in her sleep! Poor Wes is truly in for a doosie in about a year or so :)
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SAD ALERT!!!!
The only other big news in our lives is that we have gone from a family of 5 to a family of 4. Sadly, our Mavis was put to sleep on April 17th. Our beautiful dog was born with kidneys too small for her giant body. The vet warned us that this would happen however we thought that it was going to be a few more years down the road. The last week before we put her down we had noticed that she wasn't eating much and she was drinking lots of water. She had also started to wet herself at night. I made an appointment to have some blood work done on her. When Dr. Calvert came back with the results we knew that it was time. Her kidney's were functioning at a level that would put most dogs down for the count. Not our Mavis :) She was still running, barking, and tearing up it with Margaret, which is what made it that much more difficult. We took her to Burger King for some double cheeseburgers - her favorite - and then on a walk. When we finally put her down, her tongue slipped out of her mouth as it always did when she was sleeping. She was the most well-behaved dog that I had ever met, she was as gentle as could be and she had an unconditional love for us and for Margaret. It's been hard and there hasn't been a day that goes by that I don't cry when I think about her but she is no longer in pain. Over the years her body had become used to feeling lousy which is why she was functioning so well up until the end. I know that she will be waiting for us when we get to where she is and I am going to love on her like she's never been loved on before!
