Lately Alexa has started to whimper for me. If anyone else is holding her, even Daddy, and she sees me somewhere or walk by her or through the room, she whines. It's cute and funny.
She also whines for whatever she wants. For instance, if she wants a drink of what you are drinking or a bite of your food, she whimpers like a little puppy!
Alexa still calms down when we turn the "Backyardigans" on t.v. She loves that show! She likes to play in JoElle's room (which will one day be her room too, when she can walk and sleep in the toddler bed). We let her play with the Little People toys, like the bus and the kids that go with it. She loves playing in JoElle's room!
She is working on her pincher grip, using her thumb and her forefinger to pick up food. She is pretty close to mastering it. It sure does make it easier for her to feed herself! She is not interested in pureed baby food, the only thing she will eat that is even similar to baby food is organic brown rice cereal. She used to love pureed organinc zuchini, blueberries, bananas and sometimes carrots and parsnips. Now she would rather eat anything we are eating!
Recently, Alexa ate organic mac and cheese with me which I added ground beef and salsa too. It was a little spicy, but she doesn't mind! She didn't get much of a tummy ache (as far as we know, she is lactose intolerant like JoElle was and Daddy still is, she is still on lactose free formula), she had some gas, but nothing serious. Also lately, she ate Panda Express with JoElle and me, she ate Orange Chicken, which is quite spicy, and she was fine.
JoElle loves to eat spicy food, she asks to go pick up hot wings all the time, she loves them from Wingstop and she doesn't use ranch. She eats the original hot wings, which are quite hot! JoElle also likes to eat jalapenos and other peppers by themselves.
As for bedtime, JoElle does not want to sleep, she gave up naps right after she turned 1, it has always been a struggle since then to get her to bed by 9:00, even when she had to wake up to go to daycare when I was working. Now, we are lucky if she is in bed by 10, sometimes it is more like 11 or midnight. She has so much energy, she could go on 5-6 hours of sleep and be fine, no crankiness or anything. This is how I was when I was young, too. I remember being in elementary school, as young as Kindergarten, and staying up until 2-3 a.m. reading or watching t.v. while everyone else in the house slept, including my mom!
JoElle still wakes up by 8 a.m. or earlier, full of energy and ready for the day to begin! She is not cranky when she is tired, only when she is hungry does she get cranky, just like me :) Lately, we have found JoElle falls asleep best if she is laying with me or Daddy. She will typically fall right to sleep and then we can put her in her bed for the rest of the night, I think a lot of it is security, she feels safe next to us.
As for Alexa, she is a great sleeper really, she typically takes 2-3 naps a day, she is up around 8:30-9:00 a.m. and is ready for another nap by 10-10:30 a.m. She takes another nap in the afternoon, this time is not very predictable unless we are driving in the car, then she will surely sleep! Sometimes she takes another nap around 4-6 p.m., usually not very long, maybe an hour. As for bedtime, she gets fussy and fidgety somewhere around 8-9 p.m. and she will either fall asleep as I or Daddy holds her, or she won't stay still so I put her down in her crib awake, giver her a blanket and turn on her mobile, then rush out of the room before she can look back for me and start crying! This works really well, she usually grins really big when I put her in her bed and she loves blankets. She sometimes cries a little bit as she gets comfortable, then she will find her fingers to suck and turn onto her tummy and fall asleep.
Lately, she cries when I lay her down, so I start rubbing her side under her arms and she giggles like crazy instead of crying because she is so ticklish!! It is really cute.
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