Oh to catch up on life....

This is going to be a long post about any and everything updated...bare with me.

So Sammy is 7 months old...

and she is growing absolutely too fast. She has long since mastered sitting up on her own and in the last week she has also mastered pulling up and standing on her own. She still refuses however to crawl and settles with her adorabley cute army crawl. She will get up on all fours, take a couple "steps" and then flop to her stomach and take off. Either that or she will get up on her hands and toes in a downward dog position and then get pissed off that she can't stand up. I'm sure every parent says this but I have a feeling she will walk before she crawls.

She is doing amazingly with daycare...which is more than can be said about her sleeping habits. She started out fantastic with her sleep training, by night 3 she was down and out sleeping until the morning with no crying. Then she started getting up and 4am everyday and crying. Now she has gone back to her going to bed at 9pm, only to wake up screaming at 10pm. The first night we let her scream for 20 minutes (while checking Ferber style) and then Steve picked her up, soothed her while she screamed for another 10 and then I grabbed her and she went right to sleep (cue pissed hubby). The second night she screamed for 40 minutes when we gave in, Steve grabbed her, put her in her bouncer and rocked her back to sleep, she was out until morning. Then of course last night, same deal, bed at 9pm, up at 10pm, rock back to sleep but then she added the extra bonus of a 3:30am wake up time. Sounds like its time for some more tough love...we'll see how this goes.

Friday night we spent the evening at the Oakland Coliseum for the A's game and fireworks. They lost but I got some great pics.

Meanwhile, Steve celebrated his 40 birthday on Monday. In honor of the day, we went to dinner Saturday night with friends and then Monday night as a family. Sammy was a rock star for both...and now for your viewing pleasure...pictures:

So that's it for now, hope you enjoyed the update, I'll be back very soon as to stick with the 30 Day Blog Challenge. For details or to join, click below:

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