It's been fun for sure, but it certainly hasn't been without it's ups and downs. For the most part she is a perfect baby. Of course she is, how could she not be? We're finally getting into a groove. It has taken a while for us to trouble shoot some of the day to day basics--like, change her diaper after you feed her, because she's planning on doing her business when she gets fed, except for at night. Then you should change her diaper first so that she is awake enough to eat but will fall asleep easily after. She has done really well keeping herself on a schedule. I haven't been as sucessful. I read the book Babywise that apparantly everyone reads- in an afternoon and I realized we are doing really well for being 5 weeks into it (at the time). She is almost giving us 5 or 6 hours at night, but that is assuming we go to bed when she does, which we don't most of the time. So I am having more trouble keeping up with it than her. I need to start getting into the 'going to work' routine, because Monday I will be heading back to work, and we're all going to be getting up early.
Yes, that's right. Caroline will be 10 weeks old on Friday and I haven't updated this blog once. Just wait and see after I go back to work! She has done so well getting into a routine. She wake up only once at night, usually around 4AM. The only problem is that I have problems going back to sleep after, so I normally lay awake until Dusten's alarm goes off..but that alarm will soon be mine, and I will not be ready to get up when it goes off.
She goes for her 2 month appointment on Wednesday which includes shots. We shall see how she handles it. I am guessing she will cry like crazy, but hopefully she will sleep it off.
We tried so hard not to give her a pacifier and we made it to 6 weeks. I think that is pretty good. At that point her gas was so bad it was almost impossible not to give it to her. But now I hate it. For the most part she doesn't need it, but now she wants it. Sometimes she wants it to fall asleep and sometimes she won't take it. So that means usually she wants me to play fetch for a while until she is too sleepy and then she spits it out. I am just hoping that she does not become too dependent on it. Her gas seems to have tapered off so maybe we can try to wean her off of it. Good luck, right?
We finally had her newborn pictures ordered and we got them in the mail on Saturday. I think they are so cute! It's hard to believe she will be getting her 3 month pictures taken in only 3 weeks. Then we will start this whole crazy thing all over again.
She has enjoyed her first walk, first trip to the library, first trip to grandma's, first road trip to visit great grandma and first toy. All of this I have pictures of, but they are still on my camera. Of course. Check back soon.
I have also been working on her baby scrapbook, and I am so excited. Dusten's Aunt Brenda helped me pick out all the pictures. Hopefully we can work on it soon. I am ready to see the mostly finished product.
Anyway, she's our sleeping beauty and we love her so much! I have recently taken to calling her punky. It started because I would call her pumpkin, now it's just punky. Dusten hasn't come up with anything creative besides Sweetie. Sometimes he calls her honey, but that is really confusing to me. I am supposed to be honey!
She is just starting to smile at us. Dusten thinks that she knows what it means when he says,
"smile for daddy" but I think it's just the inflection in his voice. Time will tell. It's just amazing how fast they grow. I moved her to 0-3 month outfits on March 1 and I think she will be grown out of them by Easter. I need to figure out how to stop this madness! Her whole wardrobe is 0-3 months. She doesn't have anything else to wear after this!
Well I am going to count this as an official update until I remember all the things I wanted to write, but forgot!
1 comment:
Oh the pacifier thing is so hard because you don't want to have to listen to them scream themselves to sleep, but you don't want them to become dependent upon it.Jake has gone a day without it and so far only 15-20 min of crying (and that's not constant crying either). He won't miss it in a few more days. He won't even know what a paci is or remember that he needed one to fall asleep. I slept so much better last night because we didn't give it to him. Rather then waking up 5 times he only woke up 2 times. It was soooo nice! Sounds like you are doing a great job mommy and daddy! Thanks for the update!
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