The Ashlan show: Solids, sleeping, and rolling over!

We have some great news! First, Ashlan learned to roll over, yay! We found her on her stomach three times on Saturday night! Also, Sunday night she slept a total of approximately 10 and ½ hours with one feeding and only two wake ups during that time (and we also found her on her tummy in the morning). Considering her wakings were every hour or two, this is such an improvement! Monday night she only slept about 8 ½ hours with two wakeups, with one to eat so she’s definitely getting better! And she’s also in her crib now and has been since we got home from vacation. We’re feeling pretty positive that the hourly night wakings are over (for now, haha)!

Also (and it could have been a coincidence), she ate three tablespoons of rice cereal before bedtime on Sunday night. We only prepared two but she looked like she wanted more so we fixed another tablespoon and she ate it all! She probably would have even eaten more if we gave it to her. This time not a drop was wasted! A pro already and it was only her third time eating solids! Today Ashlan had squash and she loved it! Never took one look back! That was her first attempt at “real” solids since she just had rice cereal mixed with breastmilk. I was worried she wasn’t going to like the taste and that I was going to have to mix it with breastmilk a bit but she just lunged forward at the spoon for more after the first bite, lol! She is such a little piggy when it comes to food. So today we all went to Babies’r’Us to buy her a highchair and then daddy put it together so we don’t have to use her swing anymore. I can’t believe how big she is getting, I wish time would just slow down a little!

I’ve been trying to get outside to weed lately (since apparently we’re growing a weed garden out back by the pool in the rock area) but I can only do it with Ashlan when there is shade back there (in the mornings) and it is slow going because she’ll only stay in her exersaucer for a half hour (not only that but I like to run in the mornings since it can get to the mid 80's during the day now). She loves being outside though and feeling the wind blow through her hair. I wish we had something to put over her to keep the sun out so I could enjoy the sun while she’s in the shade. We’re going to have to look into something. We’re also talking about putting a pool fence around the pool since she’ll be crawling and walking before we know it. I think we’re going to call around to get estimates so we can get it put in relatively soon.

And since I’m waiting on the RLR laundry treatment for 22 of my cloth diapers to get here (I ordered it online), I can only use the 12 other cloth diapers I have, which means we use them for two days and then use disposables for the laundry day of the cloth ones…so if you see pics of her in a sposie, I haven’t given up yet! I’m just waiting on the RLR to get here (and hopefully it’ll do the trick)!

Ashlan eating her baby. :)