Five Weeks

September 26, 2012 - Time sure does slip away from me. I have been meaning to post something, but something happens when I think about posting and then in the evening I never want to post on here because when Justin comes home we like to spend time together with all three of us! We have so much fun.

Things have been going really well. We have had some crazy days though too! There have been a couple days recently where nothing will make her happy besides me nursing her like every hour. We just keep calling thee growth spurts. I have no idea if that is really what it is, but I will go with it!

Averie is 5 weeks old now. She was one month on September 20. Oh my gosh how time is starting to really go by fast. The first three weeks went by slow and I was loving it. Now time is going by too fast and I don't like that. I am going to be going back to work before we know it. :-( I am still breastfeeding her and that is still going great.

One Month

Pretty much from the beginning I was only waking up with her once in the middle of the night to feed her and then between 5 & 6 am. These last few days though she is sleeping until around 4 am and then I will feed her and she is out again until 7 am approximately. We have been giving her a bath every other night and I will honestly say that she sleeps much better on the nights we give her a bath. Since you don't have to wash a baby every day, even just soaking her in the warm water will do. We will probably start doing that every night soon when the time allows for it.

We have been having fun though. Each day is something new. After her 7 am feeding, I will usually take a shower and put her in the bouncy seat with the chair on vibrate and the fan and shower going she pretty much falls asleep while I shower. This usually lasts long enough for me to get ready for the day. Averie, Milo and I try to go for a walk every morning. This has been fun. A great way to get out of the house and to get some exercise. We do tummy time every day. She has really been able to hold her neck since birth, but she is picking up it while on her tummy and turning her head to the other side! She will do tummy time on the Boppy Pillow and she holds her head up from that so well.

I usually try to get some pictures every day to send to daddy. I love all her little outfits. Usually that is what our afternoon looks like...taking pictures and hanging out. If I am making dinner that evening, I will usually put her in her swing in the kitchen while I make dinner because we have that in our dining area. She likes that most of the time. She is really starting to look around A LOT more and can see the birds flying around above her and that really interests her. This usually gives me enough time to get something ready for dinner or do some type of house work or whatever.

Daddy usually is home around 4:30 pm and she has her daddy time. She just loves her daddy! She has him wrapped around her little finger! She smiles for him all the time! Between 5 pm and 7 pm we eat and spend time together. We will give her a bath around 7:30 pm and feed her right after and she is usually out no later than 8:30 pm most of the time I would say depending on how everything falls. She loves taking baths. The after part is not so much fun because she gets so cold so fast, but overall bath time is really fun for the entire family. Milo even sits in the bathroom while we bathe her.

Averie also was baptized on September 23. She was such a good girl during the entire church service. She had a rough day the day before so she pretty much slept through the entire service.

Oh one more thing that I discovered is the sound of a vacuum. When she really is fussy and nothing will help her, I go to YouTube on my phone and play this video that has 8 hours of vacuum sounds. That really helps and usually puts her to sleep for a little while. Then I usually vacuum the house when that is on. It is amazing how much they love the white noise. We also have a coupe sound machines for her too that she uses for different things. We play the ocean at night next to her crib with a different sound machine and then we also have a bear that is portable so we take it with us when we go to the store or for a ride in the car. She loves that as well. But the iPhone is so handy to use as well. I actually downloaded an app to my phone that plays all different white noises. It is called White Noise.

Well enough for now. That was long!