Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Bowen Happenings

Last night Lena Kate got to meet and play with her cousin Brandon who was visiting from West Virginia. We don't get to see them often. His mom is my cousin Casey. It was so nice to finally introduce them to my pride and joy and get to visit. Brandon was really good with Lena Kate. Here are some of the pics of them horsing around.

She was attacking Brandon


Hold on tight Brandon, she is a wiggle worm!

Such a cute pic of "B" and Casey, except for the mean cartoon woman on TV.



Tonight I was a good South Texas girl and cooked homemade carne guisada and Spanish Rice. It was excellent. I'll post the recipe very soon on my recipe blog if you are interested.

Everybody please say a little prayer that Lena Kate decides to sleep in her own bed tonight for longer than an hour. We've had 2 rough nights where she will go to sleep and and soon as I walk away from her bed she starts to fuss again...this happened every hour on the hour last night...well more like 10:15, 11:45, 12:45-1:45 then she finally slept until about 4:15...in our room-after she FINALLY fell asleep in our bed, I moved her to the pack and play to try to sleep myself. I hope she at least gets on a better pattern soon. I don't mind getting up once or twice if I have to, but a pattern would be nice. It makes for a pretty tired Mama..and Daddy too...not to mention grumpy and emotional if I don't get enough sleep. I'm counting my blessings for a happy healthy baby-don't get me wrong. I just would like for her to sleep a little better at night:) I'm not quite ready to let her "cry it out," so hopefully waiting a few minutes before rushing in will ensure she is really awake and not going to go back to sleep on her own....as for not going back to sleep after I put her down...who knows. We'll get through it, I'm sure. God give me the patience in the middle of the night to work this all out and not sigh so loud that I keep Lane up too :)

Just in case you need a visual
UPDATE: She had a good normal night last night...only up at 11:30 and 3:30 and right back down to sleep! Thx for the prayers, may they continue :)

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