Week 1 of the Baby Whisperer

Today starts the second week of our new baby whisperer routine with Rachel, and some days I feel like it is working wonders and other days I just want to sit down and bawl (some days I have!!) So far we have succeeded in two respects. I don't have to feed Rachel to get her to sleep although she would still like me to, and she is now sleeping in her crib all night long and for naps which is a big improvement on what we were doing. The first few days Rachel took to our new routine and did really well, but I'm not sure what happened, but after those first few days she started fighting going to sleep. For the most part she is doing better but last night she woke up 8 times during the night! We are going to stick to it and hopefully Rachel will start sleeping better, crazy girl! I could tell she was just as tired as I was this morning when we woke up. Well, she just woke up from her nap so I better go get busy! I love this girl!

I'm not fat. . .All this dress makes me look poofy.

So we went to Target while I was in Texas and I found this super cute dress on clearance for only 5 dollars. What a steal! It is really poofy (the bottom part has 5 layers!) but Rachel looks so cute in it! Sunday morning before church the next day I gave Jacob the choice of getting Rachel dressed or making lunch. He chose dressing Rachel. She was a little traumatized at having her daddy put her in this huge poofy dress. Doesn't she make such a cute sad face. What a good mother I am, instead of comforting my child when she is bawling I take pictures of her.

As soon as I was done taking pictures and Jacob handed her to me she quit bawling.

Notice how tight she is clinging to my shirt. I don't think you could have pried her out of my arms after that.

Hungry? Why wait. . . Eat a banana pepper?

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a ball. . .

My sister Caralee has this ball that was kind of fuzzy. It had these little rubber things poking out of it. (I can't describe it better than that. Refer to the picture below if you are confused.) Anyway, we were playing at Caralee's house one day and Rachel started playing with this ball. She is really funny with textures on her face. When something with an odd texture gets in her face she makes a really funny face. This ball is a good example. She kept putting her face back into the ball though. I couldn't get a picture of her making the face though. This is the only picture I was able to get. I got maybe 5 or 6 different pictures all exactly like this one, with her face buried in the ball.

We took a little video of her playing with this ball on my phone because she was really funny with it. I'm not sure if the video worked out though because I can't view it on my internet, so if it doesn't work or the quality is bad then I'm sorry, but I thought she was so funny that I just had to share.

I heart purple cookies!

First off I'm going to say that if you haven't had Albertson's chocolate chip cookies than stop reading this and go buy some. They are delicious! They are the ones in the purple bags. We actually cal them purple cookies. In fact, Albertson's red cookies are pretty good too. Anyway, we found an Albertson's when we were in Texas and rented a movie from the Redbox there. We decided that since while we were there we might as well get some of those awesome cookies!

Now, I feed Rachel almost anything that I am eating, and so when I was eating the cookie she kept watching me and patiently waiting for me to share. I started off by giving her little tastes of my cookie, but Jacob eventually gave in and gave her a cookie of her own. She was so cute with her little cookie!

She is a pretty smart little girl. The next time we got out the cookies she knew what they were and she lunged for mine! I'm so glad I could introduce Rachel to the perfectness that comes in an Albertson's purple cookie!