rice cereal

I got up 4 times last night with the kids. Katie 3 times and Ty once. Ty usually doesn't wake up in the middle of the night. I'm not sure what the issue was, but I just put his blanket back over him and made sure he still had a pacifier and he went back to sleep. He doesn't use a pacifier (he calls it a pappy) at daycare during naps, but can't go without it at home. I'm not going to take it away any time soon. We moved him to his new room in Feb. and Katie arrived in April. I wanted to allow him something consistent. I'm thinking at his 3rd birthday we see about taking it away....then again, I don't know.

Katie got up every 2-3 hours last night. It was awful. Since Danny's not here, I had to take care of every feeding. (formula- I'm not nursing.) I almost fell asleep during one of them. I had to run to Target today and picked up a box of rice cereal while I was there. Thought I would wait to use it after talking to the doctor next week. Well, at 9:30pm tonight, Katie had already taken 6 oz in one feeding and wanted more. (4 oz is a typical feeding right now.) I remembered the cereal and pulled it out. I can't remember all of the specifics from when Ty was using cereal, so I followed the directions for "baby's first feeding". It mixes up very runny, so I thought I could put it in a bottle rather than feed with a spoon. Wrong. The mix is thick enough to not go through a size 2 nipple but runny enough to trick ya! I put her in her seat and fed her with a spoon. She basically sucked it out of the spoon and she probably took about 1/2 oz worth. She was asleep by 9:45 pm. I'm curious to see how long she sleeps!

By the way, Target is one of my favorite stores and there is one being built less than 10 minutes from the house. Dangerous.