As i mentioned in the last email, Maizy has cut her first tooth. I know, already?! It seems too soon, but i saw the little guy popping up about 1 1/2 weeks ago-i thought it was her rice cereal sitting on her bottom gum. Tried wiping it away, and then the fear took over-tooth time has begun. And what, only like 20 more to come? Oy! But, it totally explained her behavior-fussy and a little warm too. We were doing really good for sleeping through the night, and then the tooth destroyed that. We also had cut out her evening nap to get her to bed earlier, but she'd wake up hungry. I just got so confused on what to do. Here for the past 5 months we had our rhythm down with Maizy, and then in a few days it flipped again. We're not supposed to go get her in the night when she's crying so she can soothe herself back to sleep, and not to feed her because she'll wake up the next night to feed again. We made that mistake and took a few nights to get back to sleeping through again. Now we brought back the evening nap because she'd wake up at 11 hungry, and then at 4 hungry, and wouldn't eat again until noon. So we realized that she could go for a long period of time at night without eating, and that we just need to fill her up as much as possible in the day.
When it seemed we were at our wits end, Grama and Grampa Good came up for the weekend. We were worried that they'd be awake all night with us, so they offered to stay at a hotel. Well, they might as well have stayed with us. The moment they came into town, Maizy hit the charm switch and the old loveable perfect baby returned!! Like Grama Ginny said, all she needed was a little Grama time to get her back to Maizy again (and to that i asked, when are you going to move here?!?!). We had a great time with Matt's parents, and realized just how blessed we are to have them as parents. Of course they ate her up to pieces-Grampa Ron would just look at Maizy and she couldn't do anything but just smile! Grama Ginny had Maizy talking all weekend and spoiled her with new clothes. Maizy even learned to play dominoes with us, our favorite thing to do together. We started green beans this weekend, and she is eating them up great (she'd better too-i made a bunch of it for her!). About a month ago, she really found her voice. This past week, she has found the tonal ranges of it and tries to scream but makes it raspy and squealy and is hilarious to listen to! This weekend is huge for us-Maizy gets to meet her Aunt Debbie for the first time when we go to Illinois for her Thanksgiving, and then we'll head to Iowa for turkey day next week.
Hope all is well. Blessings!!
