Bottle Battle

I think I have a very opinionated child. We have been trying to get her used to taking a bottle for weeks. I have to go back to work in August and she will have to take one at daycare. It has been a total battle to get her to take a bottle and, so far, Harper has been winning. I felt like I was giving up to easily, but after 45 minutes of screaming, I would usually break down and just breastfeed her. Well yesterday I went to brunch with some friends and Brandon texted me and said she took a bottle from him, no problem. All day yesterday and today she drank from a bottle like she'd been doing it forever! Hallelujah! Now if I could only get her to sleep for longer than 4 hours at a time at night and decide that its ok to be on her belly. One thing at a time.

Unwanted Advice!

I just have to vent a little...

As a new mother you get tons of unsolicited advice. Sometimes this advice is great...sometimes not so much. I'm getting a little tired of being scolded for not taking "good advice" from people. The fact of the matter is that most of this advice is just plain bad and most of the people from which is comes could tell me the sky was blue and I'd question them...they're that unreliable. As a result of this, however, people think I'm being stubborn. I'm not being stubborn, I'm making the best decisions possible on my daughters behalf...so back off!

Enough of that. I'm excited for the 4th! We are going swimming and then to a cookout. Harper loves to swim! I took some pictures of our last swimming excursion only to realize once I got home that the memory card was out the camera *sigh* Oh well, I will take many tomorrow! Here are some more pictures at Miranda's request. These were taken when she was about 6 weeks old!

I have never blogged before (is blogged a verb or even a word?) but I have decided to do so after Jeannette suggested it and reading Nicole's almost daily! I read Nicole's because she has an infant daughter just like me and it's comforting to read about someone else going through the same things that I am. Jeannette and Nicole also live in Phoenix and I live in Little Rock *sigh* so I must live vicariously through others...oh AZ, I miss you so! I will try and post some pictures of Harper with this blog, hopefully it works!