Beach Baby!

So Scott and I decided that taking a trip to Mexico for his 30th birthday was a great idea! We figured taking the baby would be no problem since when we booked she was sleeping through the night and napping during the day fairly well. Well, as it turns out, taking a 6 month old on a vacation with ambitions of it being a relaxing vacation is not a good idea! We still had fun and she enjoyed the beach, but we have never been more happy to be home from a vacation in our life. Taylor decided that she needed to wake up 3 times a night and wouldn't nap unless one of us was holding her. So most of the vacation was spent holding a baby or trying to get a baby to go to sleep!

So now that we are back, little Taylor is in Baby Bootcamp to break her of her needing to be held ALL of the time! She has done pretty well crying herself to sleep the past two days for naps and night time. She doesn't really even cry at night. The first night we watched her on the monitor and she rolled around from one end of the crib to the other for about 45 minutes until she passed out! It was too cute! We stopped swaddling too! And she seems to like sleeping in on her tummy. We were so scared of when we would have to stop swaddling because it seemed like such an important ingredient to her sleeping through the night. Scott kept saying, we will cross that bridge when we get there. Well is seems we have come to several bridges this week. No more swaddles, no more picking her up in the middle of the night when she is crying and hopefully soon...no more breastfeeding. We are trying sippy cups and bottles and she is reluctantly taking to them.

Taylor's favorite thing these days is singing. She loves when we sing to her. It usually calms her down when she is upset and makes her laugh and dance when she is happy. Bathtime and swimtime song is "Splish splash I was taking a bath". Scott finally looked up the words so that we could sing it right.

Taylor is also trying all kinds of new foods. I know that you are only supposed to introduce one new food a week, but the resort had Organic Gerber baby food in all of these new flavors so I was a bad mom and just tried all kinds of new fruits and vegetables..Ooops! She had the worst gas the whole week and I can't begin to determine which food was the culprit. Scott and I were having pineapple all week and she wanted some too so I gave her the rind to suck on which she seemed to enjoy, but 5 minutes later threw up. Guess that wasn't the best idea on my part.

All in all it was a great trip, but we will be leaving Taylor with Grammie next time we want to go to Mexico!