Blythe is Baptised

Yesterday Blythe was baptised!  She was excellent, she slept through the entire thing.

No Yellow

Last night I randomly drew 3 yellow diapers to stuff for the evening.  Jason was in the mist of putting the first yellow diaper on when Blythe peed on it, so he got the second yellow diaper and her and just a few seconds later she pooped in it.  Clearly she was not in the mood to wear a yellow diaper so I stuffed a white one and she let that one stay clean!

4 weeks

WOW, another week has gone by.  Blythe is 4 weeks old, but won't be a "month" old till Saturday.  The last 2 nights Blythe has gone back to her normal schedule!  She sleeps for 4 hours, eats, 3 hours, eat, 3 hours!!  I enjoy that schedule a lot more than the every hour one she did for a few days. 

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Another Growth Spurt?

According to La Leche League babies go through growth spurts at 2, 4, 8 (doubles) weeks.  At about a week and a half Blythe had a few days where she was eating non stop.  Yesterday, this began again.  Jason Keene and Zane came to visit and Blythe bascially ate from 3-7pm.  She crashed at 7pm which should have meant that I went to bed to, but we were at the neighbors watching the Cowboys.  Blythe slept from 7-10:15pm, ate, then slept again from 11-2:40am, but then was up every hour.  Although this doesn't sound like great sleep it is an improvement from the last 2 nights.  The last 2 nights she had slept for one 4 hour duration and then was up every hour.  I am hoping this is part of the growth spurt and we will be back to our 3-3.5 hour sleeping intervals (or longer) before long.

3 Weeks

Yesterday Blythe turned 3 weeks old, time flies!  Look how much she's grown!


Blythe at 3 weeks                                                                       Blythe at 2 days old



Blythe helps mommy do the laundry!

Blow OUT

Yesterday Blythe and I were standing on the porch talking to the neighbors (Blythe was looking especially cute in her outfit Aunt Cindi sent):

 

when all the sudden we heard the all too familiar sound of the "diaper filler."  I didn't think too much of it until I heard a splash on the concrete:

and then something on my hand:


I looked down and immediately started laughing...we had our first blow out!

As Jason said: this was an express route to the bath tub!

2 Weeks +

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Yesterday Blythe turned 2 weeks old!  We had our 2 week check-up and the doctor said she was "perfect!"  She weighed 7lbs 4oz and grew half an inch!  We had to do the newborn screen where they prick their little heel and squeeze the living daylights out of it.  This was NOT fun and is making me tear up right now as I write about it.  I had Jason go be with her while they did it and I stayed on the other side of the room as I knew I would likely be in tears.  I think I might have cried as much as she did, as I saw blood running down her little legs I wanted to yell "your wasting it, stop squeezing and use that."  She wasn't fussy yesterday so I don't think it bothered her after it was all said and done.  I was going to take a picture of her poor heel with the band aid, but it fell off before I got a chance, I guess that is a memory that can be forgotten. 

Blythe's umbilical cord fell off on Sunday so she got to have her first big bath and dad got in to play with her!  She really enjoys the warm water. 

 

Although they say babies don't really develop a routine this early we have a little bit of a routine forming.  She takes a long nap from about 11-3, has wake time from 3-5 and then goes into what I call "marathon eating time" anywhere from 6-9 or 7-10 where she just eats/snacks non stop.  When I went to the La Leche League meeting on Tuesday the other moms said their babies do the same thing and this is how the babies "store-up" for a longer stretch of sleep time during the evening.  Blythe usually wakes up every 3-3.5 hours during the night. 

The last of our company (Momo) has just left today so we are down to just the 3 of us.  Jason and I are a great team and we are enjoying every minute with our baby girl.