Sunday, April 3, 2011

My Stubborn (with a capital S) little girl...

So for the past week or so I have been trying to get Chantal to take a bottle in preparation for our trip in 2 days to Colorado. I figured it would make things a lot easier if I could just hand her a bottle during those times not well suited for nursing. I remember the last plane trip I took was a little awkward when I had to nurse next to this random strange guy...

Anyways my daughter is just not loving the whole bottle/sippy cup thing. Today was the worst day by far because I tried to hold out on her so she'd be hungrier for food. 1 bottle and 3 sippy cups later and we both had tears in our eyes and our hands up in the air!


                       When she calmed down she found that the sippy cup was sort of fun to chew on-


So I guess for now we'll just keep plugging away at it. Hopefully our trip will go okay and I'll find a way to work in the nursing. 

Things in Kotzebue are still cold- we're just hovering around zero, without the wind chill. This cold weather makes it pretty hard to get out of the house and do things- since most of what we do here is outside. We had plans to ice fish yesterday, but with the wind there was no way the baby would have been able to go- so we scratched that idea. Ahhh- sometimes I feel like we are just incubating in our homes here- waiting to hatch come spring time- which for us is probably June!

Meanwhile....
Rangeley has been more interactive with the baby lately- he's such a good boy!


Here's a smile from him!