She fights sleep like crazy...at both naptime and bedtime. The only time it comes easy is if she falls asleep during a bottle or in the car. Other than that she pushes away like crazy while rubbing her eyes and if you lay her down she screams and if you pick her up and she pushes away again. So it's a pretty good time. I wish I would have savored more those days where we could just sit and rock. Every night of this might be less frustrating if we knew she was down for the night, but more often than not, that isn't the case. Every once in a while, she takes pity on us and gives us a full night of sleep. But by the time those come around, I'm so used to getting up, that I'm getting up checking on her to make sure she's ok!
Aside from the sleep department, she is such an easy baby. She's a very happy girl and fusses very little. I love seeing her big smile when I get home from work as she crawls right to me. She is the sweetest thing.
Rylie is still a great big sister...even when Reagan is getting into her things. She's fairly relaxed about it. Rylie was coloring one afternoon and Reagan crawled into her room and pulled half the books off her shelf, and then crawled over to her closet and pulled all of her shoes out. Rylie just sat and colored and when I asked what babers was doing, she said "just playing". On another afternoon Rylie and I were downstairs switching the laundry while Reagan was napping and I heard Reagan start to cry. So I asked Rylie if she could run upstairs and sing to her (she loves when Ry sings ABC's) while I finished. A few minutes later as I got to the top of the stairs, all was quiet. I walked into Reagan's room and there they were both in the crib playing. Rylie had launched herself over the side and "kept her company" until I got there.
It is so hard to believe that 9 months has passed already. If feels like it's going so much faster this time I think for a couple of reasons. One being that in general the older I get the faster time goes. And the other is that Reagan is doing everything a little earlier than Rylie did, so she already seems to be closer to a toddler than baby at this point in time. It's just as fun to cheer for her and be proud of her as she hits all of those milestones as it was with Rylie. Before we know it we'll be celebrating her 1st birthday which is just plain crazy!
