Sleep Regression

It looks like we've entered a sleep regression.  What does that mean?  It means I don't get enough sleep.  :(  TerraDactyl's been waking up every few hours, so my sleep comes in groups of 3 hours, which is brutal.  I'm a full night's sleep kind of girl.  I think it's maybe because her top teeth are coming in?  But she's plenty happy during the day...  it's just sleep that she's a little terror about. 

Keeping an eye on Riley

Naps are also in flux right now.  TerraDactyl might be transitioning to one nap a day.  I'm not really sure.  She'll take her morning nap at the same time as normal and sleep fine.  And then she'll act like she's ready for an afternoon nap, but when I lay her down, she'll play happily for 10-15 minutes and then cry for the rest of the time.  So.  That's cool.  I think the two (not sleeping well at night and not napping) are feeding into each other. 

Bananas are back on the menu!  (and face)

When I first introduced bananas, TerraDactyl liked them.  And then she started rejecting them.  But recently, she's started eating them again. So that's good!  It means I currently have five options of food for her:  Cheerios, Rice Puffs, Mum Mums, spinach, and bananas.  But really, puffs & mum mums are both just rice, so it's not exactly variety.  Before I started trying to feed food to a baby I used to tell myself that I would not allow my child to be a picky eater.  She'd eat when I gave her and that would be that.  Ha!  How naive. 

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