"My Precious" (Insert creepy Lord of the Ring's voice)

The swing that is.

Not to take away from Isabel's preciousness, but this swing is freaking sweet. For the last week or two Isabel's been a little cranky when attempting to go to sleep. Emily and broke down and purchased this swing in our own attempt to gain some sanity back. It worked; the first time we put Isabel in it, she slept for 6 hrs. w/out a peep. Since then (4 days ago) she's been a little angel when feeding and putting back to sleep at night. I think that she just was not napping well during the day which made her irritable and resistant to sleeping at night.
Now she's napping well and sleeping better at night. In fact, for the last few nights she's been sleeping 5-6 hrs hours in b/t feedings! We'll feed her at 9 pm and she'll wake up somewhere in b/t 2-3 am.

Andrew

Weight Watchers Alert

Isabel and I are hanging out this morning. I have her asleep in her Combi (Combination rocker, cradle etc...).

Isabel is definitely food motivated. Cirque was the same way, except that I had much better results training Cirque than I've had thus far training Isabel. I don't expect her to be the same of course; after all Cirque is a dog. :)

I say this because she's packing on about a lb. per week:
Leaving the hospital: 6 lbs 8 oz
Two week apt. from leaving: 8 lbs 6 oz
1 month old: about 11 lbs.
More precisely 11.2 lbs (.1 lbs = 1.6 oz) or 11 lbs 3.2 oz - Of course this is from our home scale witch is displays in .2 lb increments. So there's a margin of error of course.

That's about 14 oz per week.

She's been a little bit of a pain lately. At first she'd eat, sleep and poop; now she's starting to eat, burp, poop, eat some more, sleep while while feeding, eat some more, burp and then she'd be wide awake ready to absorb the world. Which really sucks at 2 or 3 in the morning. Those are the times when you really want to play with her but cannot physically or mentally keep up with her because you in your own sleep deprived catatonic state.

She likes going on walks. We have a BabyBjorn backpack carrier for her. We highly recommend this product. Isabel really enjoys hanging out with her head buried in my chest hair. If we stop there's a short period of time before she wants to get moving again. I can tell when this is the case by how aggressively she pulls my chest carpet. I could prevent this of course by wearing a shirt. Most of you know that will not be the norm.

Andrew

1st Bath

It really went pretty well. We got home from the Hospital on a Thursday. Saturday we had the Maternal Grandparents, Emily's Sisters, their husbands and kids. Needless to say it was a packed house for the big event.

Isabel still had her crusty umbilical cord remnants so we could only dribble water on her. We've found since then that she likes actually having some water in the tub. I'm sure it's because of the warmth. Anyway, her first bath went really well. She fussed a little but only a few screeches of joy!! Afterward she was passed around from one doting relative to the next. This kept her occupied and the day went really well. The following day my parents or Isabel's paternal Grandparents came up for a visit. My mom was really excited for her first grandchild (2nds have yet to be decided) and my dad said he had forgotten how small they start out.

Andrew