The Playroom/Nursery

I always thought our nursery was goofy looking. I mean, we didn't paint, we didn't buy nice wall-hangings or really nice furniture. I was almost embarrassed to show people the room because it's so....not what you would see in a magazine.

Alli *loves* her room. In fact, now that she's focusing on objects, we seem to spend quite a bit of time in there. Typically I only take her in there to change her diaper since she still sleeps in a cradle in our bedroom. But lately we've been hanging out there. We have her activity floor mat in there and all the bright posters on the wall of the colors and numbers. She can stare at the walls for quite a while when I hold her. And I'm happy to say, it looks like she has mom's attention span as opposed to dad's. (Sorry dad.) Today she stayed on the activity mat for half an hour bee-bopping around and smiling with the animals. Then I put her in her crib and wound up the mobile and she watched that for another 15 minutes while I made myself breakfast. The great thing is that after all that playing, she then slept for an hour, woke up and ate, and then we repeated the whole thing again. The second time around I had her in activity mat for only 15 minutes while I did some situps by her (counting my reps out loud - I'm sure she'll be counting to 10 very soon!) and then I moved her to the bouncy seat with the animal toy bar and into the bathroom so I could take a shower. She sat quietly in the seat with her animal friends for over half an hour while I showered, dressed, did my hair, brushed my teeth... Ah, why can't all days be this easy! :)

I'm trying to see if I notice any patterns in her day to help tailor her nap times and such for when I go back to work (27 days and counting). Unfortunately, I have made lots of plans and they may not fit in to this schedule, but then again, they may...

She's a very good baby. She doesn't cry anymore unless I neglect her for quite a while. She typically just makes little noises to let me know that she wants my attention. I'm also finding that since she sleeps in our room, its just small noises to let us know she's awake, and a lot of sucking sounds. :) (Apparently, that means FEED ME!) If I let her go too long while communicating, the volume goes up and more frequent bursts of sound. She's a really good communicator. And I love having her in our room. I feel like we are quite the pack and I'm sure listening to daddy and Baggy snore make her feel comfortable. :) I know I like listening to everyone breath - it's my pack family!