Bailey Family

Some good things - about a week before school started, Gideon decided to start sleeping in his crib. He sleeps through the night now also. It's great. He usually goes down rocked and read to and soothed but awake for his naps. For bedtime, he prefers we put him to sleep and transfer him. (Last night he went down awake and went right to sleep.) If he cries more than 30 seconds, we know he's not going to cooperate and we'd better go get him and try again. (He's stubborn if he's not ready. But when he's ready, he's good about going to sleep.) When he wakes up, he's usually chill and will sometimes lie there awake looking around or "reading" whatever book is in his crib. The only not-so-good thing is that he frequently wakes up with a poopy diaper after naptime. Like his crib becomes his toilet. (At least it's contained in a diaper and he doesn't mess with it; my brother recently shared a rough nap/poop story with me about his little...

Every thing I can think of from July 1 until now (22 August - the day of school starting): Natalie lost her phone for a while so she put up "lost ads" around the house. Her phone case looks just like that!  We tried to dye the ends of the girls' hair for fun with temporary hair dye. (Should last about 30 washes, which I didn't think it would, but maybe....we were headed to the beach soon, plus pool time...and we bathe and wash hair daily.)  It was called Splat midnight (so you don't bleach the hair to color it), but it still really only showed up well on Carolyn's blond hair. (Hers got the least time exposed to dye and Kaitlyn's got most.)  And then it was washed out after 2 days! Whatever. I told them we'd try once more to use up the rest of the bottle. Beach Trip 2018 I always take more pictures than I can possibly use. Gideon loved everything about the beach and pool!  4th of July Fireworks on the...