sitting up

Adler is now holding her head up very well. in an effort to keep her off the back of her head...no helmet for her, we are trying to find something else she can do during her waking hours. so we have tried putting her in the bumbo so she can sit up. so far she can do it for a few mins before she gets annoyed and starts fussing. which is longer than she can do tummy time.

ugh...count down is on

mommy has to go back to work on January 2nd. i am not looking forward to it. it will be hard to be away from my girls after having almost 8 weeks home with them. I am almost exclusively breastfeeding so i will have to lug all the pumping equipment with me to and from work to keep up my supply and make sure Adler has plenty of food. I did pump the first few days when i was totally engorged so we do a back up supply in the freezer so there is no way my baby will go hungry. i just hate pumping as it is 20 mins of sitting still and being tethered to the machine then another 5-10 minute clean up before you can be back to normal and carry on with the day. i do have a harness so i am hands free but it is still not a fun way to spend 30 mins of your day especially when you have to do it every 3 hours. UGH, UGH, UGH!!!!

poor daddy

mommy and grandma went out to see a Broadway show last night and left daddy and grandpa home with the girls. it is the middle of the week so daddy has to get up and go to work. unfortunately, Adler does not realize this and she did not go to sleep at a decent hour for daddy. she was still up when mommy got home. mommy got the easy detail a quick feed and burp and Adler was asleep for a good five hours.

going, going, almost gone

Adler's acne and cradle cap are almost gone. so she is looking more 'normal' baby like that along with filling out she is starting to look like a magazine cover baby...wonder if Gerber is looking for a new model?!?!?

wakey-wakey

Adler is spending more time awake these days. this is great as we all get to spend more time with her. the bad thing is she does not really do anything so it is hard to entertain a baby who really cant do anything. she is spoiled though in that she likes to be held. this will only be a problem after grandma and grandpa leave and mommy goes back to work and daddy is on his own. lucky that mam-maw and pap-paw will show up in about two weeks and will be here for a while so there will be two more sets of arms to hold her and continue to spoil her.

Merry Christmas

It is Adler's 1st Christmas and completely uneventful. She slept through most of the unwrapping events. She only got a few presents that she did not even get to open. she did get "first Christmas" jammies but managed to pee on them 3 times mommy kept having to hand wash them so we could get a wide awake Adler for her 6 week picture post.

birthstones

I lucked out and have daughters with two of the most beautiful birth stones. Rigby's is the best a diamond (what girl does not love diamonds??) Adler's is citrine or what i think looks like a yellow diamond. I have been looking for a yellow diamond cocktail ring for a few years now, so yet again i don't think it is coincidence that god bless me with Miss Adler Nicole.

rub a dub

i think that i might have found the key to happy bath time for Adler. yet again it is almost the exact opposite of her sister. Adler seems to like a warm to hot bath. we have had three in a row with no fussing so i am sticking to keeping it hot for now and enjoying spending the time not having to rush to get her in and out because she is screaming bloody murder.

wonderful moment

Adler was on the floor fussing a few minutes ago and the wonderful big sister that Rigby is becoming went and got her passy and shoved it in her mouth and held it there. it was a little rough but her intentions were good. every time that the passy would fall out Rigby would pick it up and shove it back in and hold it for Adler. these are the moments that melt my heart. omg...Rigby just went in and stole the blanket off Adler's bed and brought it out to cover her up. she is really trying to get Adler to stop fussing (while mommy finishes this blog entry.) i love the sisterly love Rigby is showing to Adler.

head and shoulders

Adler now has cradel cap as well has her hair falling out. she has big huge flakes of skin on her head. we have taken a soft brush to flake off, which looks like it is snowing there are so many flakes. so it takes a little extra lotion to make it not so noticable but it will still be a few days before it is all gone. ugh!!

falling out

Adler's hair is slowly receding. Her hair line is now back to about the middle of her head. she was not born with much to start with and now with it falling out she is going to be nothing but peach fuzz soon. Yet another way her and Rigby differ. Rigby was born with a full head of hair that never fell out and has grown down past the middle of her back now. my girls are going to be TOTAL oppoisits.

tummy time

Adler really is not a fan of tummy time. she fusses almost the entire time or just gives up and goes to sleep. this is hard because she is spending more time awake these days but not sure what more to do with her as we know better than to leave her in a chair, or swing. no helmets for this baby. we don't even have a chair for her, just for the reason we don't want to over use it. we do have a swing i try to only put her in it sparingly. we do use it for meals though, because she is almost always awake at dinner time but it is too hard to hold a baby and eat dinner for mommy.

one month

Miss Adler is one month old today. she still is so very small but i can tell she is growing and putting on weight. my favorite part is her cheeks are filling out and getting to be really chunky, and oh so kissable.

6+

we got six plus hours of sleep last night. it was wonderful except for the fact that time ran out at 2:30am and after that she did not want to go back to sleep. ugh. she was not screaming and crying just fussy enough that mommy could not go back to sleep. so mommy is feeling a little ran down today, as Adler is in the swing dozing away.

crappy day

hopefully Adler will be less fussy and sleep more regularly today. She had three giant poops yesterday spread out thoughout the day. i am sure that was the main reason for her discomfort and therfore almost constant fussiness. i know this is not the reason for her fussiness on a daily basis, i think she just likes to be held and cuddled not left in bed or on the tummy mat. but it cant hurt to get the extra 5 lbs of poop out. ;)

night time sleeper

i am having a increasingly hard time to get Adler down to sleep at reasonable hour (9p/10p.) the trade off is that she is sleeping 4-5 hours in a row waking up feeding and going back to sleep. anywhere from 5a/6a she wakes for another feeding and that time of day she does not go directly back to sleep no matter how much mommy pleads with her, so mommy can get an extra hour or two.

bath time

yet another way that Adler and Rigby are diffrent. Rigby loves bath time. Adler on the other hand seems to hate it 95% of the time. it sounds like i am commiting violent acts against her when i am washing her down nightly. ugh. it is so hard on me as i know she needs to be clean but hearing her scream like that makes my heart ache.

another week older

Adler is another week older. we are settling into a semi-schedule. the bad part is that Adler seems to either be sleeping or fussing. she is awake more hours of the day but most of that time she is crying. she is not technically colic, because that is defined as 3 hours of constant crying. thankfully we are not to that point, her fussing is not that long of intervals. we are going off what the doctor defines as the "Sears" method of child rearing. I have heard of him, but did not read his book. basically it is defined as letting the child set the schedule and feed when she is hungry. Not the "Spock" method of setting a firm 2-3 hour feeding schedule.

red birthmark

Adler does have a birth mark. the thing is that not many people are ever going to see it. currently it is a little bit bigger than a dime and is located directly on the back of her head. so unless she walks around with her head shaved when she is older no one will know. i prefer this to being on her face or arm where she could later in life become self conscious of it. p.s. i have since been able to start wearing my wedding ring again. YEA!!! feels weird though, since i went so long with out wearing it at all.

explosion

last night we went out for a nice dinner. i changed Adler's panty that was full of both pee and poop. we get to the restaurant that is a mile or so away. we get there and order drinks and Adler gets super fussy. i go to pick her up and notice that she has poop all over her outfit. i first thought that i missed it when i changed her at home. after more inspection noticed that she had filled her new panty and it had gone all the way up her back and out the leg holes. it was a crazy mess. the restaurant that we were at did not have a changing table so i had to take a crying Adler outside to lift the tailgate and strip her down, wipe her down, then re-panty and dress her. after this crisis averted Adler decided she was hungry so i had to attempt for the first time public breastfeeding. thankfully we were sat in a corner so limited exposure. i did have a mommy cover, but as this is the first time so needed a little extra help. it was a very eventful meal not really in the "good" way.