Happy New Year -

Veronica is some amount of weeks today, but I'll have to try to get a picture later. It has been kind of a crazy day around here. I am trying to post my favorite pictures from this year and it is a little harder than you would think. Anyway, here's my favorite picture post of Veronica, even though I love all pictures of her and her sweet face.

First Christmas - 32 Weeks

 
Veronica had a good day, napped well, was good at my mom and dad's. But she went to sleep badly and cried for quite a while and now she is screaming away at not even 10:00, so not a great ending. I really wish it were different, I don't know what else I can do. I haven't had caffeine in over a month, I try to get her to nap well, I try to feed her even though she won't eat anything on a spoon. I'm really at a loss as to why these kids have such a hard time going to sleep. I suppose if it's still this bad when she's 9 months old, I'll have to ask her doctor. I know he'll just tell me to let her cry but seriously, she has been crying for MONTHS now. Anyway. First Christmas. Crying. :)

Yes?

 
May I help you? :)

I am still struggling with getting this child to sleep without screaming her fool head off every time! The last two nights have been very rough, lots of screaming, no nursing, she seems miserable and I am, too. She doesn't really get an afternoon nap, because it's tooooo crazy around here but I am going to try to commit to it because it's too painful to listen to her cry so much. Still no sitting up or eating. Same baby, different day!

31 Weeks

 
This is a better picture, anyway. Veronica has been sleeping pretty badly and is still not sitting up or anything. She and Maria are needy little things all day and that's why I haven't been posting much. Also I hate to record such misery.

Bow

 
ha.

Poor Stupid Baby

 
I know this picture is awful, my GOD this camera is a pain. I'm trying to fix it but I don't know if maybe it's just broken, like maybe some jerk dropped it on the floor or something? But ha, look at poor Veronica! Poor stupid baby.

Seven Months

 
Veronica is seven months old today, but she is sleeping like a seven week old! I am very hopeful that this is just a horrific, long-lasting phase, but right now she is up all the time in the night. She isn't eating anything off a spoon, but she will eat some fruit in her little mesh bag, and she'll eat Nilla wafers, pretzels, bagels and waffles. It's so weird that she hates the spoon so much! Her doctor told me to just find something she likes and keep giving it to her, but I am still searching. She is sweet, and she is getting better and better able to amuse herself for a few minutes in the exersaucer. She is sitting up, but only when propped and only for a few seconds. She took such a long bath tonight, she seemed so happy and content in there I just did the dishes while she bathed. She curled herelf around in two, toward the end, splashing and happy. It was super cute and sweet, just like her!

30 Weeks

 
Veronica, lying around on the floor this morning, after a three hour nap. She was up a lot in the night, crying for an hour at 8:30, up to eat at 11:00 and 1:00 and then for the day at 5:15. So. Not great!

Sleep Training

Good God, will it ever end? V is almost seven months old and still, almost every nap, almost every night when I put her to bed, there is crying. Tonight is the third night in a row that she wakes up crying around 8:30. I haven't gone up, because I know that she needs to go back to sleep, she doesn't need to nurse, she is dry, etc. I feel so bad, I start to think maybe Anthony is waking her up (he is LOUD) or maybe she hates her surroundings (she is in a CLOSET) but what can you do? Anthony lives here. She is, in fact, in a closet, there is nowhere else for her right now. Every day I tell myself it will get better and every day she cries and cries. I can't believe, sometimes, that I just did this last year with Maria and now I'm doing it again. It's wearing. I hope it's worth it.

Blurry

 
I'm still working with my camera. Veronica is all better now, I'd say. Last night, althought she made noise at 9 and 10, I didn't hear it, because I was out drinking! ha! I was going to say that I didn't feed her then, she only woke up to eat at like 3:00 and only for a little bit, then she went back to sleep til 6:30. So that is much better than she had been doing. Sunday - Wednesday nights she was up around midnight, for the day, practically. She was so, so unhappy and ferverish, it breaks my heart to see her like that. She would fall asleep and then snap awake, scared and crying. Hoo boy. I'm glad it's over and once again, I am always so grateful for what we have when one of them gets sick. She got sick and got better and now it's a memory. We are very lucky.

Remote

 

29 Weeks

 
she's all better, turns out it was roseola. I wish they didn't have to put a catheter in her, TWICE, to find that out, but I think it's unusual for a baby Veronica's age to get it. She seems better now, I gave her a bath today and she really liked it. Unfortunately, she is asleep right now and I have to go and wake her so I can go get Anthony. It pains me SO to wake a sleeping baby, especially one I've been up with for hours and hours for a week, but there it is.

Sicko

 
oh, she is sick! This is the fourth time she's been sick in SIX MONTHS. The hell, world?