I’m running into Kaylynn’s determined spirit a lot lately. I love her so much, but this girl and I are going to have a standoff on more than one issue. She’s strongly opinionated on how and where she does things and it makes a mommy’s day challenging. She’s only five and a half months old! What will this determined spirit look like in three or ten years? We need to set up early who’s in charge here.
Sleep: She nearly refuses to fall asleep 
unless she’s home and then only if she’s in her crib swaddled and sucking on her binky. The problem is she’s also getting good at wiggling out of the swaddle, flipping herself over, pulling out the binky and therefore crying because things are not right many times during the night. I think I’m going to wean her off both the swaddle and the binky so she can learn to get herself to sleep wiggles and all. The next week or so could be really rough. We’ll see how long I last. Davin doesn’t want to attempt this at night, just during the day. Today she took a grand total of three twenty-minute naps. One of them she fell asleep on her own and it was such an exhilarating feeling. If she’s tired enough she will sleep!
Eating: Kaylynn is so strange about where she eats. Today we were out at a doctor’s appointment, the grocery store, and then lunch with Davin. Kaylynn wouldn’t eat the whole time we were out and she was getting cranky. Watching a baby at the next lunch table drinking her bottle didn’t influence Kaylynn either. When we got home she guzzled down six ounces. I knew she was hungry! Silly girl.
