Naptime stinks!

Today I decided that it was time to break little miss kinslee of being held ALL day long since she has to go to my aunt's on Wednesday for a few hours. She has to start going next week on a regular basis to get her ready for when I go back to work in two weeks.

I feel so sorry for my aunt who is kind enough to keep her for us along with a few other kids in her home. She has a "daycare" if you want to call it that in her house. She keeps 3 kids plus my little cousin so that she can stay home with her girls. Needless to say, I am extremely thankful that I have a family member that can keep Kinslee on the days that Mark and I have to work. I hope she never has to do a real daycare but you never know....but I am keeping my fingers crossed. With her being so little I am terrified of her getting sick. I guess I worry so much because I work in the Children's Hospital where I see perfectly healthy babies end up so sick from RSV, stomach bugs, and much more. I pray everyday that she remains healthy. I also and happy my aunt can keep her because I KNOW she will take good care of her!!

Today I tried several different methods on getting Kinslee to fall asleep on her own in her bed. I started out by feeding her, laying her in her swing to watch BABY EINSTEIN (these are great!), and once she started looking sleepy I took her to her room and layed her down. It lasted about 15 minutes with not a peep from her but then the hollering began. I looked at my watch and it was 2:15. I let her cry for 15 minutes and then went in to pat her and let her know it was okay. She continued to scream. So....I got the ipod and its dock and put it in her room because she always sleeps when there is alot of noise. So, for her daddy and put the ipod on Dave Matthews and walked away. At 2:40 she was still crying. At this point I tried my favorite, Kenny Chesney. She was still crying. At 3:00 I went in there and put her on her belly and rubbed her back. At 3:15 she was FINALLY asleep and I was crying! It is so hard to watch/listen to your baby cry when you know all you have to do is pick them up and it will stop. I am trying so hard to break her of sleeping with us and being held all the time. Several friends say by the end of the week she should be broken of it...Keep your fingers crossed 'cause I am going to keep trying until we Succeed.

Bless all the mothers out there who have had to go through this and for all you soon to be mothers who will!