More Baby Stuff

You know, aside from the daycare stuff Dylan is actually pretty easy right now. She's really fun and playful most of the time and very responsive to us. She babbles bababababa constantly, clearly a reference to her beloved bottle. When she is really fussy she is usually obviously tired or hungry, and she goes to sleep relatively easily, whether by being rocked or on her own in her crib. She still takes three naps, but two of them are invariably crappy and I'm hoping she'll switch to two good ones in the next couple of months. She has settled into a routine of waking up once at night between 3 and 5 and then going right back to sleep, which I hardly mind after all those months of wrestling her to bed at midnight and holding her upright and such. I know in a month I probably won't know what to do with her, but for now it's nice to have a rough routine.

We've started playing music in her room at night as she falls asleep. Just one song actually, Wigwam, a Bob Dylan instrumental that was on the Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack. Aaron has always liked to listen to it on a loop also, so that's sort of funny. I didn't want to make her dependent on music to fall asleep, but I think she was born that way because we both think it really helped her even the first time.

One thing about still feeding Dylan all her meals is that I spend a fair amount of time in her daycare. The room, while fairly babyproof, is not really set up for babies who can move. So it is hilarious when one of the babies goes mobile. They get themselves under the cribs and behind the changing table and they can manhandle the other babies who are helpless on the floor like little turtles. Four of the six other babies in the room are older than Dylan. One of them can already move himself around pretty easily, although it's more dragging than crawling, and the other three can sort of wiggle and roll around to get places. I think Dylan is only a few weeks at most from being able to roll front to back and sit on her own.