Heart- so sorry D caught a stomach bug
are you going to have to postpone your trip? I had to cancel a flight once because I flew while sick & my ear hadn't popped in days. I felt deaf in one ear & heard it could bleed or get badly damaged if I flew again, so they canceled it for me without a charge. I can't really make all Bay's food. I do a mix. She gets fresh food like bananas, avocados, pears, sweet potato, & carrots. Then she gets organic pouch food also. We have a serious issue with freezer space here. DH's fam buys a TON of frozen food (pretty unhealthy stuff!) and there's hardly ever room so whatever I make has to be eaten up in 2-3 days. We eat healthier than Aaron's family does so I won't let her eat that frozen crap & I hope I can pass good eating habits on to Bay, but we also don't deprive ourselves either. Everyone gets to splurge sometimes & I don't want her having food issues or anything. Maybe when we get out on our own again I can prepare more meals for her, but I honestly like having the pouches too because sometimes I'm not up for all that work! B can be funny with men too! Especially if they have a lot of facial hair
a few times my uncle or grandpa would talk to her and she cried!
Just- I hope you and your DH can come to a compromise on a time to ttc. How fast were you able to get preg before? I think that makes a difference too...can probably feel more pressure if it takes awhile to get preg. I usually got preg in 3-4 months of trying but I know for some it takes longer. Hope you can reach an agreement. Glad your first overnight away from E went well
Kat- sounds like you're staying pretty busy with your new home. I agree with being too busy for #2 right now! Also, we need to be in our own place, have 2 cars, savings, etc & I need to go back to work before we can even think about it! CA is just too expensive for only one of us to be working, unless one of us was making a ton of money, and I don't see that happening anytime soon. I keep trying to figure out when I should go back to work & DH has no input really except he doesn't like the idea of a stranger caring for Bay. This 2nd car is going to eat most of our savings & then I guess we'll go from there. I give B water also. She likes it and I'm glad because I worried she would only like sweet stuff & water has no flavor but I think it's important she gets used to that. I only gave her juice once and it was 1/3 juice and 2/3 water.
Melfy- glad Zoe is such a great eater
and yay for better sleeping too!
Croy- yay for a successful camping trip! DH & I LOVE camping but we pretty much decided we wouldn't be camping for a long time since we had Bay, but now after reading your post I am hopeful! Bringing the pack & play was a great idea! Glad Levi is being a trooper with all those teeth cutting too
Nina- welcome & congrats on your beautiful twins
Hopeful- hi hon :wave:
In regards to nap time/rocking:
I have completely weaned Bay off of the washer/dryer naps and bed sharing. She sleeps in her rock & play sleeper right next to our bed. I do sing to her and rock her in that for about 10 mins. She almost always falls asleep in that time but if she doesn't, I leave. She might cry for a second when she sees me leaving but then she just plays with her feet or chews on her blanket and then puts herself to sleep. She actually rocks herself in that rock & play by kicking her feet out lol I sing and rock her mostly to calm her down and let her know its time to settle & rest. Like I said though, at some point I leave her and let her soothe herself to sleep if she hasn't already. I'm fortunate that B is pretty good about napping. She really loves her sleep! She doesn't sttn though. She always wakes for a feeding.
We had a great time in Tahoe! Bay was pretty good too. I thought she'd have a hard time sleeping being somewhere new and different but she was fine! The only bad thing was when we drove back from Emerald Bay...it is always heavily congested through one area where a big, touristy campground is and it's one way in and one way out. The idiotic CHP put a damn DUI checkpoint there of all places. So we sat in traffic for over an hour and Bay was screaming bloody hell! DH had to lean his seat back and feed her a formula bottle in the backseat just to get us through it. When we finally got to the stupid checkpoint, they were just waving everyone through!!! WTF was the point of that?!? Other than that, it was a great weekend. We went on a nice walk along a creek and I wore B in our new Ergo and it was great. We went out to a yummy breakfast on Saturday and I gave B tiny bits of my wheat toast and red potatoes. She was loving that and it kept her from fussing in the restaurant. At night when Bay was sleeping, we watched The Wire on my laptop and hung out on the porch and chatted. We took the scenic route home too and that was really pretty. It was really great to have family time with just our little trio. I'll post some pics from our trip!
mommy time, I love to check in and see how everyone is doing. 
that scenery is gorgeous
