Paparrazi Patrol

Curr-Bear had her very first photo-session a couple of weeks ago for Easter. Sadly, we weren't able to track down the Easter Bunny, however, we were able to schedule an appointment with the uber-cheesy JCPenney Portrait Center. Turns out, I blinked my eyes and Curry was four months old without any "professional" pictures. I use the word "professional" loosely as I do not consider JCPenney as cream of the crop when it comes to taking photographs. I apologize in advance if I hurt any one's feelings, but I've been a bit spoiled working in the wedding industry with the numerous fabulous photographers I have known to love. Oh well though, a REAL photo shoot is in the works and I will be MORE than happy to post those once I have them in my possession. As for now, we are stuck with the ones Adam and I bought from JCPenney (which we actually did get a couple of really cute ones). Enjoy!




PS- Curry had her four month check-up on the 9th of April and she weighed 14.5 pounds (75th percentile) and was 27 inches long (90th percentile). "Long and Lean" the Doc said. At least we know we've got a great basketball player in the works, ha!

Sweet Success!

Move over measly little bassinet, the nursery crib is in town! She did it! Curry spent the whole night in the nursery last night AND she slept for six hours straight before she even made a peep via video monitor. I was so proud of her because it didn't even scare her when she woke up for a feeding because I just put her right back down in the crib and she conked back out in two seconds! WOO HOO, sweet success!

Me, on the other hand, didn't do so hot. First of all, I had a HUGE scare in the middle of the night which in turn freaked Adam out when I woke him screaming, "Where's Curry?! Do you have her?! Where is she..she's not in the crib anymore!!" Yes, every parents worst nightmare is to awake in the middle of the night, turn over to look at the monitor to find there child is no longer counting sheep in their bed where you left them. TALK ABOUT A FREAK OUT!! Before I go too far, don't worry, Curry had just wiggled her way over to the far-end of the crib, just slightly out of the camera's sight. So, when I glanced at the monitor it was a vacant bed. Talk about a heart attack! I about died! But, all was well when I ran to the nursery room and Curry was right where I left her...just a lot closer to the rails.

Curry also has officially been rolling over from back to stomach, so every thirty minutes when I awoke to look at the screen, she was snoozing away peacefully...on her stomach. She LOVES sleeping on her stomach, but each time I would go in there and carefully turn her over as not to wake her. Check out the video I made of her completing this amazing fete! Super cute, just ignore my hick twang (SO embarrassing!)


Well, we're off to night two of "Operation Big Girl Bed", let's see if we get a little more shut eye tonight. Hopefully, no more fake kidnappers to come, ha!

Goodnight, Sleep Tight...

Tonight is the first night Curr-Bear is sleeping in her nursery. It's definitely bitter-sweet as I have been anxious to give her a little more independence, but reluctant in that it's sad not to have her next to me tonight.

She's been stuffed with breast-milk and rice cereal, white noise is in full force, and the video monitor is on. I'll let you know what the outcome is tomorrow, but for now this Momma needs a little shut-eye herself. Goodnight world!

Houston, We Have a Problem!!

What is the deal?? Somethings got to give because every time I am bold enough to make a statement about Curry's fabulous sleep patterns, she immediately resorts back to her newborn stage. Seriously, as soon as I posted my last blog about her 100% sleeping at least a solid six or seven hours each night, it wasn't even a day (or night I should say) later that she was getting back up EVERY TWO HOURS! Yes, that's right...TWO HOURS! HELP! I mean it honestly wasn't this bad even when she WAS a newborn baby.

The problem is Curry has decided she only wants to eat about two to three ounces every feeding, which resorts to her being hungry a lot more. I'm telling you I can't even force-feed the milk down her. So....we've started exhausting every possible scenario to make her sleep better. I've tried rice cereal in her night bottle, which didn't work. I've tried to switch her to formula at night, but again, she's waking right back up after two hours of snoozing. I've even made sure to not let her sleep a lot during the day (especially past 5:00) still no results! It's getting so bad that I'm breaking back down and putting her in bed with me just to get a couple of more minutes of sleep. Hey, I'm desperate here!

Moral of the story is I'm just at a loss. Now, every parent of an infant remotely close to Curry's age just brags and boasts about how great their child is sleeping now. Almost as if they are trying to rub it in my face. Well, I guess that's what I get from all of that bragging I started off with...sure did come to bite me in the butt. Oh well...I'm going to try and stay positive and just keep my fingers crossed that now that I've put it out on the blog, maybe, just maybe, it will have the opposite effect and she'll start sleeping again. I mean a girl can wish right??!!