Is it really THAT bad?

Well Lately I've been trying to sleep train the stinker. I dont really follow everything I'm suppose to do, but I do most of it. The book I'm reading advises not to fully sleep train till they're 6 months, and the stinker is only 4.
Malin is for the most part very good at sleeping, has been since she was born. When I see that Malin is sleepy i stick her on her blanket, give her a kiss, pop the soother in her mouth and cover her with the blanket. On the way to her room I'll pat her butt and shush her then I stick her right down into her crib. She cuddles up the the side of her little nest I made her, makes her sleepy noises for a couple minutes, and goes to sleep. On a few occasions I wait too long to put her to sleep and I'll have to rock her for about all of 30 seconds till she decides she really is sleepy. And when I've been a really bad mom and have totally neglected the fact that she needs naps, she screams her head off for anywhere from a couple minutes to 20 min. Then she'll just suddenly pass out. So all in all shes a good sleeper but. At night the only time she wakes up is if she needs her soother or is hungry. If the soother doesnt work I know shes hungry. After she gets what she wants she goes right back to sleep.
Now let me explain the "is it really that bad" question. Some nights... starting to be most nights, when I put Malin down for the night to go to sleep for good, she goes down fine but wakes up an hour and half later (cuz she knows she doesn't get out of her crib till shes slept at least that long for her naps) and think its time to get up. And sometimes during her nap she'll either sleep the whole hour and half, or wake up 45 min in. When she wakes up early she cant fall back asleep. I have to get her out and rock her. Most times I only have to rock for a couple minutes and shes good to finish the rest of her nap. At bed time it takes a little more convincing that its bed time and not the end of her nap. So heres my question, is it REALLY that bad to rock her to sleep when she wakes up when shes going to bed so good. I know the reason she probably cant fall back to sleep on her own is cuz I'm rocking her back to bed, but I like it to much. She only snuggles when shes sleepy, sick, or traumatized. Sometimes she falls asleep and I just keep holding her for a while longer. Or when she wakes up during one of her naps when I'm taking a nap I'll just bring her into bed with me which I LOVE. When she sleeps with me she doesn't even suck on her soother she spits it out and just snuggles with me! I love it. I know I should teach her to fall asleep on her own... but she is only almost 4 months in a week. Is it really that bad... I say no, but I'm the one getting snuggles from the cutest little girl ever.






She use to be able to go 6-8 hours with out eating during the night but lately its only 4 hrs, so I'm thinking shes getting more hungry. So we decided to start her on Rice cereal haha. Shes not to sure what to make of it. We've hardly fed her any and not everyday but heres some pictures of the first event.

Shes getting so big!!! Shes starting to put her knees under her belly and wanting to move. Shes starting to kinda sit on her own. She can sit on her own for about 10 - 15 seconds then tries to reach for something and falls over... and she cant quite sit with her back straight... or I think she just doesnt want to.

Malin P

Wow 6 posts in one night, pretty sure i'm good for another month haha.

Have I told you lately how much I love Malin. I have a problem, I love Malin way to much. I cant help but brag about her to EVERYONE. Lets face it, this entire blog is about Malin. I even dream about Malin. She is just the most amazing little girl ever. Here are 10 things I love about Malin.

1. I love that she is just so stinking cute.
2. I love when I got to check on her in her crib (when shes suppose to be sleeping) and all I see is the big grin smiling back at me.
3. I love when shes crying in her bed and I go in to stick her soother back in, and while i'm searching for her soother she grabs my hands with both of her hands in a death grip and falls back asleep with out me even putting the soother back in.
4. I love how goofy she is all ready, and cant wait till she cant talk, I dont think i'll ever be board again.
5. I love how strong she is and how she loves to play on the floor with her toys, and in her jumparoo,
6. I love how excited she gets when she sees me or Josh walk in to a room.
7. I love how when she gets excited or frustrated, or show any emotion really, she'll take her right hand and smack what ever shes touching 3 to 4 times. only ever with her right hand though.
8. I love how I know she loves me even though she cant tell me that.
9. I love that she's found her voice. She can be sitting there jabbering away and me and Josh will start talking louder so we can hear each other and that just makes her jabber even louder. She even jabbers back and forth to us, like shes talking to us.
10. I love the feeling I get from being her mom. I love how blessed I am to have the most precious little girl in my life. I love how special I feel that I get to raise one of God's most choice spirits. I love everything Malin brings to this family, and what she adds to it. I cant get enough of her and I dont think I ever will.

Hers some pictures of the little cutie... the last ones are some of my favorites shes just getting so big, and getting such a goofy little attitude.

Birthday/Thanksgiving/Aniversary

October is a busy month for me. On the 7th is my birthday, then Thanksgiving, then on the 11 is my anniversary.
We were going down to SA for Josh's grandma D's 85th Birthday party. I was so busy with packing and what not I totally forgot it was my birthday. Also cuz we decided to celebrate my birthday and anniversary the next Friday cuz Josh had it off school. Thursday Janna texted me and told me she was going to take me out for my birthday, this is when I remembered that hey i'm turning 22 tomorrow. Thats right people i'm 22... I feel old haha. We went shopping and I loved it. Janna bought me a skirt, and Josh (well I bought them and told Josh it was my present, hes not into surprises much no matter how much I tell him I love them.) bought me a shirt to go with the skirt and another shirt. I love the outfit I feel hot in it haha something I havent felt since before I got pregnant. Then we went out to moxies, where Malin was so kind and had a blow out. Then I went home and to my surprise my lovely husband had road the bus to get me some flowers and a card and chocolate. I loved them!!!! specially since I know how much Josh hates the bus and how much he hates spending money on things that dont last.... like flowers. He's such an amazing husband and I love him.
We drove down to Barnwell the next day. Malin is such a peachy bean. I just love her to death. She was amazing. She stared out the window for a little. Fell asleep. Woke up 2ish hours later, fed her a bottle then sat in the back with her and she stayed happy awake the rest of the way. We visited some friends in Barnwell who I miss SO! much. Then Saturday was Grandma D's party. It was so much fun. I love Grandma D she is such an amazing person. Almost her whole family was there, I think she was a little over whelmed, but frankly so was I, there were alot of people there. She had her hair done and just looked amazing.
We got a family picture, this was the first time in 11 years that Rick and Dixie were able to get a family picture with all their children. They have 10 by the way. The only one mission was Erins husband and oldest daughter. It was so neat to meet Josh's siblings I hadnt met yet.
It was so much fun to be there, so much so that we forgot to take hardly any pictures haha.
We went to raymond on sunday to visit my parents. THis also happened to be the day my little sister got engaged. CRAZY I know. She just seems too little to me, but I'm sure shes not, its just cuz shes MY little sister. We had fun talking and playing but it was a short trip and we couldnt stay long.
We made a short trip to barnwell to visit with Josh's aunt Mona and Uncle Daren, who were going to be at his parents. Also stopped at the drug store where i got THE cutest socks for Malin. By this time Malin had had enough. She was sick of all the new people and all the new places, she wanted to go home. So we left.
I told Josh all I wanted was a date. It had been along time since we had gone on one. Our upstairs neighbors offered to watch Malin for us. We went to Social Network and then out to dinner. Man it felt so nice to be out on a date with just Josh. I really took for granted our time together before Malin. I loved every minute of it. Malin on the other hand did not. We came home and found her bundled up in her blanket sitting in her bouncy chair staring at the wall with puffy eyes. She looked traumatized. I felt so bad for Kristi and Gregg. She started off good, then she realized we were no where to be found and she lost it. I think it'll be a while before we leave her again.
Here's some pictures of thanksgiving... theres only 4 and then some others of Malin.

Conference

Funny how things change when you get older. I remember when I was really young and watching conference my parents would pick out certain words like prayer, faith, etc. Everytime we heard these words we would make a little tick on a piece of paper. For every tick we had we'd get a penny. I thought it was so awesome that I got money for watching T.V. Then when I was a teenager I'd groan everytime my parents would even suggest watching the Saturday session, and id spend the whole two hours trying to figure out a way to sleep with out making it look like I was sleeping so I wouldnt get in trouble. Now I love to watch both days of conference.
I love that we were able to stay home and watch it. We had our upstairs neighbors and Janna and Stephen over. It was super fun. We made pancakes and just enjoyed ourselves. I really enjoyed listening to all the talks... the ones I was able to atleast. Malin did really well, and behaved herself, but really can you ask a 3 month old to sit quite for 2 hours. She lasted about Half an hour then she needed some attention. It was really funny though, when we first started watching she just sat there and watched like she knew what they were saying. Who knows maybe she did know, maybe she said to her self, " Hey I know that guy!" Anyways I enjoyed conference, and I enjoyed watching it with my family.

Heres Malin Watching Confernce

One Day

Malin is bald... well almost. I would always dream about having a girl with curly hair, and doing it in pig tails and all sorts of cute little up-does...one day. I'm pretty sure Malin will have curly hair. Here is my attempt to make it look like Malin has hair. All that happened was make me look like a bad mom who never combs her hair. And then she played on the ground for a couple minutes and it looked even worse. So for now I'll just continue to comb it all forward and make her look bald.

Rolling over

Malin is getting to be such a big girl. A couple weeks after she turned 2 months she decided she would roll over from her stomach to her back. They were all accidental. she did it for about a week when finally she did it at least 10 times in half an hour, I was getting so frustrated at her. She would roll over and then get mad, so id have to roll her back on her stomach. Shes figured out how to stop herself from rolling over so she hasnt done it since. Josh didnt get to see her do it all. I almost got a picture of her in action.

Hers her playing with her toy.


And then her on her back wonder what the heck just happened.

Shots

I'll be doing alot of posting with in the next week I have a lot to catchup on. Man I was doing so good for a while.

Well back in September, the 27th to be exact Malin got her shots. Oh boy, I'm not excited to do this again at all. Broke my heart. Malin was so good though. I gave her some Tylenol a half an hour before we went hoping it would help. So we get there we weigh her, she was 11 lbs 4 oz and 24 inches. Shes grown so much she was 8lbs 5 oz when she was born. She was being so happy, just playing on my lap. There was another baby there just a week younger then Malin and she seemed so much younger. She couldnt hold her head up and she just seemed way younger. I dont really notice how strong Malin is till I get around babies her age.

Well we got into the little room and by this time the tylenol kicked in and she was doing the head dip thing where shed almost fall asleep then her head would drop and she'd wake herself up, it was pretty cute... till they stabbed her with 3 needles! Ya she screamed her head off and it was so sad, she was seriously looking at me like why are you letting them do this to me mom. I cried I felt horrible. She only cried for about 1 min then she was so traumatized she zonked right out in my arms and slept for the next 4 hours.

She didnt really get to many side affects. She was unusually very easy to upset for about a week after, but for the most part she was our smiling cute little girl, just a little more snuggly then before, which who doesnt love that.

Heres some cute pictures, cuz thats really the only reason people read blogs... well thats usually the only reason I read them anyways.