Thursday, January 21, 2010

I'm a horrible blogger!!

Ok, so I know blogs are meant to be done daily (not monthly) and apologize to everyone for not keeping you in the loop on how we are doing.  It's just harder than you would think to get even small things done with an infant around. I now appreciate all the moms I know so much for doing the job they do as it truly is the hardest job on earth.  Still it is amazing and so worth all the mini breakdowns and sleepless nights (hence the mini breakdowns) 100 times over.  We are doing well and Sydney is getting big, now weighing 11 lbs and 8 oz.  We went to the Dr. on Monday for her first round of shots and Sydney cried for 30 seconds, while I cried for 10 minutes.  It was SO hard to be in the room and hear her cry, but I wanted to feed her immediately after to soothe her.  She handled it better than I expected, but it was still really hard.  Otherwise the Dr. said she is doing great and is a healthy normal baby.  She has a little cradle cap we are treating and is now officially a "spitter upper", but again these things are normal.  Sydney is doing good and we are trying to get some sort of routine going.  It's tough.  She is still a little fussy at night and has great days and then not so great days.  The past few days she has not been sleeping during the day much at all, which is not typical for a 2 month old.  However, she has been doing better at night sleeping for 5 and 6 hour stretches.  Last night she only woke to feed twice from 10pm to 8am which was the best night we have had.   From everything I have read, it is about this time that babies fight sleeping because they have become more social and would rather spend time with you than go to sleep.  She has started to smile more and has had a few small giggles, but no real belly laughs quite yet.  Her smile melts our hearts, especially when she crinkles her nose!!   We are trying to savor this last 3 and a half weeks of my maternity leave.  I can't believe it's almost over already.  She is 2 months old tomorrow!  Seth is going to take part of my last week off so we can have one last little bit of time together and then he is taking the first week off when I go back, to help the transition go a little easier.  It's sad to think about handing her off to someone else, but we did find an amazing nanny to watch her.  She will be watching Sydney at her condo with her 2 year old daughter and one other little girl.  She has been great sending me info on Mommy groups, baby sales, etc.  We feel lucky to have found her and know Sydney will be taken care of.   Well that's about all for now, below are pics of Sydney from the past month.  

Dec 12th, 2009



Dec 21, 2009
My friend Devon came to see the babe!
This one is from Christmas Eve and she is wearing a handmade hat that a friend of ours got for her.  It's a tiny bit big right now, but sooooo cute!  :-)

Thanks again Mayor for the Tummy time mat!  Sydney loves it!

My birthday - Jan 4th, 2010

The rest of these are from this past 2 weeks.


Sydney and Grandma!  My mom was here for 2 weeks which was great.  She's already planning to come back for the 4th of July!!  :-)




Natalie came for a visit!  
Our little special!
Daddy and his little girl.


1 comment:

  1. She is gorgeous & growing so fast! Love seeing all the pics and hoping to see her live myself VERY soon!!

    Miss you,
    Amy

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