Take Good Care of My Baby

Aside from the thunderstorm raging outside, there was something else unusual going on in the Grover house on Monday night. Miss Amity was NOT sleeping well! She would awaken and cry but would not take a bottle and didn't want to be held. Around 11:30, I hauled her pack and play into our room and placed it next to my side of the bed in the place it used to be in her first few months of life.
In the process of setting up the pack and play, I laid Amity in our bed next to her daddy. Amazingly, she perked up, sat up, and began jabbering away like it was the coolest thing ever! Her mom and dad laughed for a minute but were not prepared to spend the whole night this way! We put her in her bed next to ours and, with occasional pats on the back through the night, we made it to the morning.

However, in the morning, we discovered that our Little Miss was running a fever and had a very gunky nose and bad cough. I stayed home from work (I usually work on Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and called Dr. Moore. Shortly after 10:45 a.m., we found out that Amity had one of those infamous ear infections that we thought we were going to escape in her first year of life. Thankfully, we have discovered that she loves the pink stuff (Amoxicillin) and it seems to be working.

Since Tuesday, we have been sleeping well once again...

and Amity has been practicing taking good care of her own babies! Well, "good care" is relative for an almost one-year-old! I promise that she did not learn how to carry a baby this way from me!

Just like Michael Jordan, tongue out to the side as she prepares to "dunk" the baby into the stroller!

This hold is a little more like what I have tried to model for her.

And then we regress!

Thankfully, Amity has enough love for more than one baby. The girl has got a LOT of love to give!