Juliette has taken to covering her head with anything she can get her hands on in her crib. I think it helps her sleep. If she can't reach her blanket or burp cloth she improvises . . .
Another week has flown by . . . it's hard to believe it's October already. Not a whole lot has happened this week out of the ordinary. Brittany and I have been trying to eat better lately, and discovered that whole wheat pasta is actually pretty good, as is 1/2 the fat ice cream (although it's still 100% of the sugar). Emilie, if you have any good-nutritious-not-too-expensive recipes to pass along we'd love that. Actually that applies to anyone who reads this blog. E-mail us recipes! I spent this week preparing for yet another test. I'm still trying to figure out how to study most effectively, so as to maximize my learning and minimize my cramming. There seem to be thousands of details I could be learning, but since I am unable to learn them all I am forced to use my psychic powers to divine which details we will be tested on. And since my psychic powers don't actually exist, I'm in a tight spot. I guess as long as I'm in the same tight spot as at least half the class, that's not so bad. Brittany has been really busy as well. It's hard to fit in all the work time she needs but she (we) love the fact that this is extra money we didn't budget for. Hopefully we can replenish some of the emergency savings we depleted when we moved over the summer.
Juliette is amazing. She had a little cold this week, which kept her (and us) awake at night, but that only lasted a few days, and it has worn down now to a slight case of the sniffles. She tried peas this week, which was very exciting. She was a bit dubious at first (as she is with all new foods), and despite our "Mmmmmm"s and "Yummy!"s she got a very puzzled expression on her face and let the peas sit on the end of her tongue for quite a while. Our encouragement won out in the end and she finished the peas with gusto, so we're considering it a success. Britt and I decided we were going to be extra excited about everything green, just to get her in the habit. I admit I was faking it: the thought of eating cold, liquefied peas is pretty revolting to me. But Juliette doesn't need to know that.
In summary things are good here. We're excited to watch the rest of conference. We only caught about half yesterday, thanks to an anonymous fussy child who didn't take enough of a nap. But what we saw was great. So, happy conference watching and our best to all!
4 comments:
I miss Juliette :(. Could you maybe Fed-Ex her out to me for a couple of weeks?
Love the pics of Juliette. Maggie does the same thing to go to sleep, Matthew did it too. I fret about suffocation, even though it is probably a minimal risk with a light cotton blankie, so I sneak in after she is asleep and remove the blanket. I wonder if it makes them feel warm because their breath bounces back at them. Who knows? I will, of course, send recipes. I have some really good ones.
I'm on a quest to be more healthy as well, not just to lose 50lbs. Green, green and more green. I actually developed a very yummy dinner salad, found a really good LIMA bean main dish recipe, and modified a pumpkin cookies to be quite healthy. ( "Lima beans" and "good" can be in the same sentence together.)I'll send you the recipes.
By the way, Emilie does have some excellent recipes which are favorite standbys at our house.
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