Averly, 3 weeks old now, has filled out so much! She looks like a totally different baby! Her little legs & arms actually have some meat on them & her belly & cheeks are so big & round. I just love it! Her hair is growing fast too. It is so long in the back. We already have a mullet going. ;0)
She has started making more eye contact with me when she nurses in the last day or so. I just love to look down & see her staring up at me. That is one of the greatest joys of breastfeeding. She is a little piggy though & basically thinks that if she’s awake, she needs to be eating! We are still working on getting on a better routine for the day. Nighttime is still great. We normally lay her down for the night around 9:30 or 10 right after she gets through eating, then she will wake up anywhere between 2 & 4-4:30 to eat, then again around 8 or so for the day. Not too bad that it’s usually only once or twice to get up, but that/those feeding(s) can sometimes last a while though. Just because she normally is awaken by her belly hurting her so she poops, eats, then she sometimes fusses with her belly again & poops again, then I can finally lay her down to sleep. But before I know it an hour or more has passed.
She hasn’t been much of a spit up baby, but just yesterday she spit up projectile style twice. Once while she sitting in her Boppy Chair beside me. It came out of nowhere too. She had eaten a while before it happened & was asleep in her chair. She started coughing & making gurgling sounds so I yanked her up & about that time she spit up everywhere. It was a lot for her. Then this morning around 5 after she got through eating I burped her, swaddled her back up, laid her in the crib & headed to the potty myself when I heard that gurgling sound again. I ran back into the room but she had already spewed. She was covered in it & so was the crib & some even made it over onto the floor. It scared me to death! Both times she seemed fine. Never cried or anything even though it was coming out her poor little nose! I don’t know what caused it all of the sudden, but if it continues I will definitely be calling her doctor.
I don’t think I ever mentioned it before, but when she was born & the doctor had to use the vacuum to pull her out of my pelvis it made a hematoma (basically a knotted bruise) on the top right side of her head. The bump wasn’t ever very big-about the size of a quarter maybe & you honestly couldn’t tell by looking at her. You had to rub her head to even notice it at all. The doctors assured me that it was not hurting her nor would it affect anything. There is nothing you can do about it. Just have to let it go away on its own. They said it would probably go away within a couple weeks or so & it did! It disappeared out of the blue yesterday!
We are still going strong with Tummy Time & she is getting better each day holding her head up a little longer at the time. She is liking laying on her belly more now too. Where as she hated it before. She is still having belly trouble every now & then and laying on her belly for a little while is really the only thing that seems to help.
My Riley man is doing great too! It still amazes me how much he soaks up with that little brain of his! We try not to let him watch much TV but in the mornings it’s about the only way that I can get him breakfast, tend to Averly & maybe start a load of laundry without him right under my feet. So I turn on the Disney Channel & let him watch a few shows during that time. He never just sits in front of the TV & watches a whole show (although that might actually be nice if he did every now & then! Haha!) but he really picks up a lot when he is paying attention. Some of his favorites are The Mickey Mouse Club, Handy Manny & Chugington. I never really thought of any of these shows as very “educational” but he has learned something from all of them. On “Mi Mow” (Mickey Mouse) they count things & solve problems. Today I said something along the lines of “We can go outside in just a minute if you want to” & he held up 2 fingers saying “two, two”. Even though it wasn’t the correct ‘to, two, too’ he still connected the dots there. Then he’ll say “O doooodle” (it’s also something they say on “Mi Mow”). The other day he brought me an old toy that he hasn’t played with in ages that needed new batteries. I told him that we would have to get some new batteries so it would work. Then he ran to our junk drawer in the kitchen & grabbed some tape saying “fifs fit” (fix it). Obviously they say that a lot on “Han Man” (Handy Manny). Ever since then he has brought us numerous things to “fifs fit”. And Chugington…well he just likes the theme song from that show. He loves to sing “chu chu chu” & dance when it comes on.
His Southern drawl is really starting to come out these days! Yes, we are definitely from the South but this little boy is COUN-TRY! Ball has now become “bawl”, dog is now “dowg” & things like that. I just love his little accent! He has recently become interested in coloring & loves to “drawwwl” on any paper he can find. He got into my bag the other day & even wrote a check for me! ;0)
His favorite thing to do now that it’s warming up outside is to “ming” (swing). We have really been taking advantage of the beautiful weather we are having & it’s supposed to get up to 80 in the next day or so! I am so excited!
Last Thursday was my 1st FULL day alone with both kids. Before that I had either TAG, my mom, or my sister-in-law there with me. When my mom left that last day I cried on the inside, but held it in because I knew this is our new reality & I would have to face it alone at some point. I did much better than I thought I would all by myself but I do appreciate all the help I've had. Especially from my mom. She has done so much!
This picture just cracks me up! He’s looking a little thuggish at the grandparents’ house! Haha! My dad got him that hat & every time he goes to their house he puts it on first thing! He loves it. He usually wears it just sitting on top of his head like the old men at the Co-op do…you know who I’m talking about! But it must’ve fallen & he looks like a little gangster with that big coat too!
Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful weather as much as we are!
