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Courtney will sit in this little chair for at least 30 minutes playing with her toys. It is perfect as the giraffe is big enough she can kick it and it has bells so it makes noise!

Updated pictures

I was told that I am not posting enough pictures our little munchkin so here are some recent pictures:

What have you been doing?

If someone asked me "What have you been doing the past week?" I would have to respond as such.... " I have been on the phone looking for a new daycare." I have removed all of the explicit language that I would have inserted had this been any thing other than "G rated". I wish that I could say I had forgotten how painful searching for day care was, but I really hadn't.

For those of you that don't know. Our daycare provider Meredith has decided to go back to school. Last year, her husband was laid off (a shop teacher) but right before labor day got a 3/4 teaching job in which he is home by 2pm every day. So a week ago, Meredith informed me that as of January 3rd, she will be closing her daycare at 3pm Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday so she can take classes at 4pm. So I asked her some additional questions and she will proceed with those hours until January of 2012 when she will close her daycare. Courtney is doing so well with Meredith and the kids there, that I had contemplated trying to adjust my hours to fit the new day care hours. After a bit of discussion, Brian and I decided that moving Courtney now is going to be much easier than moving her when she is 1 1/2 years old. So.... here's to another round of daycare interviews...

Rolling Over

Courtney has started rolling over!

Last Monday, when she woke up from her nap at daycare, she was on her stomach. When we got home I quick grabbed the video camera when it appeared that she was going to do it again. Sorry for the bad taping and commentary!

On Friday she also rolled from her front to her back and has, only once, rolled across her blanket.

Watch the rolling from back to front.

3 months old

Time sure flies! Courtney was 3 months old on September 30th. Here are some recent pics.

Day Care update

Pick up from the Trial run of daycare on 9-14

The first week has passed and Courtney has done really well at daycare and I have done well at work. Meredith, the day care provider, has been really good about informing me of her routine and Courtney seems to be sleeping better at night with all of the activity during the day. She does go through a lot of outfits though! There was only one day this week that I picked her up that she had on the outfit that she went to daycare in. The rest have come home in plastic bags :)

She had two nights that went particularly well since the start of daycare. Tuesday night she fell asleep at 10:30PM (she had eaten at 8pm) and didn't wake up until I woke her up to feed her at 6AM. Wednesday night she fell asleep at 8:30 (after eating at 6PM) and assuming she would wake up at 9, Brian held her and just by chance happened to wake up at midnight to a still sleeping Courtney! I fed her then and she slept until 6AM when I again had to wake her to eat before I left for work. I am feeling very lucky considering the week prior to daycare she was getting up again every 3 hours.

Things at work just sort of fell into place. I have only worked in one department but I seemed to have remembered how things work :) It is a challenge to pump 3 times at work, as I get 3 20 minute breaks and have to pump 3 times to keep up with Courtney's eating schedule. I look like a gymnast trying to eat and pump at the same time :) Due to time constraints I will be eating a lot of sandwiches!

The day care group. Meredith is holding Courtney.

Ready for a fight....