Doing time

The sun gets up earlier every day and that means so does the daughter. Since day light savings time went into effect Genevieve has been waking up a little earlier each day. Some days she wakes up at 6:00 AM. She doesn't always cry. More often than not she just fidgets. She still doesn't really have any locomotion skills so she is forced to amuse herself in other ways. She'll lift her legs as high as she can and then slam them down against the crib mattress. This causes her to bounce and all her toys to shake. She loves this. On the monitor this sounds unbelievably loud. Fortunately she doesn't do this all the time.

What she does do all the time is run her fingers up and down against the bars of her cage...err..crib. Like a convict rattling his cup against the steel bars Genevieve will click her nails against her wooden ones. Over the baby monitor this is just loud enough to keep you from sleeping. Sometimes she'll wake up around 5:00 AM rattle the bars for 30 minutes and then go back to sleep. I expect soon she'll be taking up the harmonica.

To combat the early rising we've put blankets over her windows. It doesn't block out all the light but it does get most of it. So far this hasn't done anything but we'll give it a few days. I would try to keep her up later at night but she's been getting very fussy the closer it gets to bed time and she is starting to go to bed closer to 9:30 PM instead of just starting her feeding then.

If she keeps this up we might have to try some other prison control tactics though she is already in solitary confinement.