Mom brain/Sick/Halloween

So I set some time aside to do the Bean's 7 month update, only to realize upon looking for pictures, that I had already done it. I honestly hardly know what's going on these days. I blame mom brain which is actually probably intense sleep deprivation (Sidenote: I recently read Unbroken about a man who was in WWII and a POW and lots of other awful things happened to him, and when talking about the sleep deprivation, I was like "I get that". Obviously I'm not a POW and I'm not having all the other trauma, but I had a bit more empathy for the whole frequent wake-up business and what that does to the brain). I keep going back and forth on sleep training, mostly because I don't think she's eating enough during the day to make it through the night yet. I've told myself that 9 months will be a good time to start. It will be after the time change (ugh) and our cruise (yay), so we'll have quite a bit of time to get her sorted and hopefully get her calorie intake up during the day. She's also teething which is dramatically decreasing her daily intake.

I've also been sick about every other week since the beginning of September. For a baby that doesn't crawl, she still manages to pick up so many diseases and pass them to me (I blame her since I've never gotten sick this many times before in my life). We were all set to get our flu shots on October 24, but since I was sick I'm waiting until I'm better. However, I'm not sure when that will happen. Fortunately, the Bean gets sick much less frequently and has only had 1.5 colds. That is very much a blessing because they haven't been that bad either. David is a wonder Dad and so willingly watches the Bean on the weekends and lets me catch up on sleep so that I can hopefully repair. He used to get sick all the time and he's still batting 100%. (Honestly, I could not do this without David and how awesomely wonderful he is). I'm just hoping everything can be in order for when we leave on our cruise in 2 weeks.

Lastly, for Halloween the Bean was a witch. She had a little outfit I bought and I made her a little hat. It was David's idea and I'm really glad he got to choose her costume. We had 3 Halloween parties this week with all her baby friends (which is probably another reason I'm ill). It was great to take her out and see their adorable costumes. Obviously she didn't know it was a day any different than usual (and that she had to wear a little hat), but it was fun for me. I actually think she's gotten used to going out and doing so much - today we were mostly at home and she seemed so restless. I did feel a bit bad that she took at least one nap each day in her carseat, but when she's only awake for 2.25 hours at a time, it makes scheduling a bit tight.

At one of the baby parties (with a fantastic group of new moms), one mom had made a pumpkin with leg holes, like she had seen on pintrest. We all put our babies in it and the result was adorable! Ellie didn't really like the cold of the pumpkin on her arms, but she was a pretty good champ. Also her head is a bit larger than the other babies so the hat is a bit tiny.

Last night we took the Bean to 2 houses to say hi to our near neighbours. We only got 2 sets of trick-or-treaters so we didn't miss much at our house (so much candy for me to eat). Sadly we found out one of our neighbours is getting divorced and selling their house. But it was totally worth it that Ellie didn't miss her first Halloween.

(I posted this on my phone so I just had to drop all the pictures at the end and can't do captions. I hope you still enjoy).