four months old

elenora is biologically four months old as of friday. actually, that is the day she decided to learn to roll over come to think of it. she is also staying up for much longer periods of time with just a few short naps during the day and usually one long, good nap in the afternoon. today she had very little naptime (not for lack of trying on my part) and lots of playtime.

i'm exhausted, and still in my pajamas.


she continues to roll over every time i put her on her back. i have to get used to this quickly, because i set her on the floor on my makeshift diaper station while i got her bath ready tonight and she rolled over into the wall. then i nursed her off to sleep in my bed as always and three minutes after i left her there i heard her crying and went in to check on her and she'd rolled over onto her belly in my bed. which means it's time suddenly for her to learn to go to bed in her own crib at night since j. and i don't go to bed until about five or six hours after she does and we're not there to make sure she doesn't wake up and roll over onto her tummy and get in danger somehow.


so i took her into her room and rocked her with the pacifier and she went to sleep kind of easily and then i transfered her to her crib with the little lambie protector around her so she can't roll over during the night. i will probably bring her into our bed with me after her first night feeding, but i guess we'll see.







it will be kind of nice to have our bed back and to be able to go into our room with the light on in the evenings. my room is a disaster area because when she's awake i'm busy playing with her and when she's asleep she's in our bed and i can't go in and clean up because i'll wake her. we haven't done well at putting our stuff away at night because she's sleeping in there and we can't see anything as we tip-toe around with a flashlight, so today when i piled all of the clothes from the floor onto the bed the bed was covered with a three-foot-high stack!


i'm not proud of this. it's really pathetic and everytime anyone comes over i shamefacedly close my bedroom door.


of course, now that she's alseep in her crib i have no energy to pick up the room! agh. i should just get started already and it will get easier as i go.


she'll be crawling soon and pulling herself up on things. i really have to babyproof this place.