Is it just me or does listening to a Baby Einstein video make anyone else want to jump off the roof? Sure, the baby enjoys listening to the music, but I seem to 'play' the music over and over and over and over... in my head for the rest of the day... which isn't a good thing!! I feel like writing the founder of Baby Einstein, Julie Clark, and asking her to come up with a video more tailored towards my musical interests. As much as I think Baby Incubus or Baby Tool would be awesome...that might not be appropriate for Maeve (not yet anyway). So I was thinking maybe.... Baby Radiohead or Baby Coldplay or even Baby Steely Dan. Just a thought.
So Maeve had her appointment with the International Adoption Clinic at CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) on 3/26/09. The occupational therapist said that she was right on target developmentally for a 12 month old. The Dr. said that was amazing for a baby who spent the first year of her life in an orphanage. Maeve also went to her pediatrician on 3/31/09. He was lovely (had a good sense of humor too). He ordered 3 stool samples, a urine sample, and gave her 3 vaccines... Yuk!!! and Ouch!!! She was a trooper though..forgot all about the pain the second we walked out the door. Maeve is in the 15th % for height....10th % for weight...and her head is in the 45th %.
We all seem to be adjusting well and have established a nice daily routine. Even Nigel, who likes the fact that she throws her Cheerios on the floor for him to eat, has stopped barking at her every time she moves...thank goodness!!! Maeve goes to bed between 7:30 and 7:45 each night and sleeps until about 7:00 the next morning. She sleeps in a crib next to our bed right now, but we are going to transition her into her own room in the next week or so. That should be fun...NOT. Nap time has gotten better as well. She takes an afternoon nap, which she is not at all happy about, and sleeps for maybe an hour and a half or so.
Maeve had a couple of play dates last week. On Thursday we went to visit Caroline, who is 6 months old and cute as a button!! And on Saturday we went to visit Ava, who is 19 months old. Ava is also from Lang Son and is just a sweetie pie!!!...they were soooo adorable together. It's funny how her social calendar is quickly becoming full, while I can't even remember the last time I actually did my hair and put on makeup! My, how life changes when you have a saucey little toddler running around. Oh, and she is a saucey little minx!!!!
Good news...Saucy is sleeping in her own room! She was sleeping in our room, in a crib next to the bed, since we came back from Vietnam. We never felt comfortable with her sleeping in bed with us...just too dangerous...Chrisfeeney might roll over and crush the poor thing. Anyway, after being home for two weeks, Maeve starting sleeping through the night. She would go into her crib between 7:30 and 8:00 and sleep until about 7 am. So, last Sunday we decided it was time for her to start sleeping in her own room. She didn't seem to mind, so for the last week, she's been cribbing in her room. Needless to say, I was very happy to get her out of our room and into her own. I was like "see ya kiddo, don't let the door hit you in the diaper on the way out!!!!"
