try the blow-dryer

When nothing else works try the blow-dryer. When you have tried the pacifier, changed the diaper, they just ate and still won't stop crying and just fall asleep, try the blow-dryer. It works!! For the last two nights Sam has been a very fussy baby right before bed. She has stuffed herself, not wanted the pacifier, not needed to be changed, not wanted me to sing to her and not wanted to lay down. The "Happiest Baby on the Block" book/video suggested that some babies need to be comforted by a similar noise to the one that they hear in the womb, apparently that sound comes from a blow-dryer. So anyway I know it sounds weird but for whatever reason letting the blow-dryer run right by her head calmed her down and put her to sleep. Crazy.

I wish I had pictures but I forgot the camera and didn't capture Sam seeing her very first fireworks. She did great, not scared at all. She stayed awake and sat on Chris's lap watching the Stevens Point fireworks. Chris and I weren't going to go because we didn't want to keep Sam up that late but our friends had such an amazing spot right by the Wisconsin river and this year is the 150th anniversary for Stevens Point so the fireworks were suppose to be amazing, that we just had to see them. So we stayed and the fireworks were pretty good. We all had a great time. And we can check off another first for Sam!

Hope you all enjoyed your Fourth of July!