Grandpa

Grandpa had his annual Spring golf tour this week which always includes a stop here in NC. Here is Marli resting peacefully in his arms.

Then he later enjoyed sharing his words of wisdom or maybe a story with the other grandkids over dinner.

One Month Check UP

Marli is a champ. She weighed in at 9lbs 13 ounces on the 18th. And I had been worried she wasnt getting enough when she was getting fussy after nursing for like 10 minutes. Looks like I was wrong. She was 21 inches long and her head was 15 1/2. Definitely good stuff. We go back at 2 months. She still is sleeping about 3 1/2 with an occasional 4 hour block then the rest are 3 hours.

I cant wait until she is more consistent with the 4+ hours. I really cant complain but I am longing for a full nights sleep considering it started a month or two before she was due that I wasnt sleeping through the night.

We also tried a bottle on Friday night. I got a pass to shop early at a consignment sale. I decided to pump right before I left so that way I could leave Marli with Jacob. Of course when I called at 8:30 she was screaming. He said she would only take a sip or two and then was done with it. Looks like we need to keep practicing.

One thing I am amazed with is babies this little really do have a sort of schedule. I like to refer to it as a rhythm. It isnt perfect but it definitely helps with planning on when we can leave or when I can get a shower in kid free. :)

Week in review

Sisterly love already or pig pile on Daddy, depends how you look at it.

We have been out in the jogger a few times either for family walks or for us to get to the neighborhood playground.
Marli and I have also been out jogging. I am able to jog my normal loops already so I am thinking I may do my first 5K May 1st.
Here is Emmi opening my push present, a new watch for me. Yeah!!!!
Emmi's new obsession is going in Marli's swing. It is all good until I need to put Marli in it and Emmi has it half taken apart or she is in it. Joys. :)

Spring has sprung

We are so glad that the weather is finally warming up, suppose to be high 60's most of this week perfect way to start my flying solo time. This weekend was super nice so Emmi, Kona and I took advantage by heading out for a run Sunday morning. It felt great to be out while Daddy had Marli duty. Then before Daddy headed to ride bikes we played outside in the backyard. Marli assumed the position on the deck with us in normal fashion on how you can find her most hours of the day. I may start to try to switch her sleep habits since she sleeps those long stretches during the day which would be awesome if we could get that at night.

Then the rest of us had fun taking pics of silly faces or playing. Here are our pics.

Dancing dancing dancing....

Emmi loves music which also means she loves to dance. Here is a clip of her dancing with Elmo.



Marli had a weight check yesterday and weighed in at 8lbs 4ounces. Everything looks good and she wont go back until her 1 month. We did find out they have to redo her PKU since the blood sample they got wasnt enough. Not looking forward to that as we will have to go to the lab one day this week for them to draw blood. :(

Daddy week

Memere has left to continue her trip to Florida, but Daddy has the week off to help. Luckily things are going really well so life with 2 isnt all that difficult. Marli still sleeps 90% of the day with still the 2.5-3 hour blocks at night and Emmi is a great big sister. She loves to give her kisses and hold her. She also will lift Marli's arm up and say, "Arm up wiggle all around" a little Yo Gabba Gabba influence there.

Since Daddy is off this week we have gone to check out the train in the center of Matthews. It is an old train car that you can go in. We ran into Griffin, Emmi's boyfriend, while we were there. We are also thinking about going to one of the library story times to get Emmi out on non-preschool days.

This morning we all slept in until 8:45 and awoke to snow. Daddy and Emmi took advantage by making a snowman before the snow all melted. Here is a pic of their masterpiece and then a pic of Marli chilling in her sling while the construction took place.


Tomorrow we head to the doctors for a weight check. Should be pretty uneventful. Here is our stork that will be leaving us today.

Bathtime & 1 week check up

She had a doctors appt on Thursday so we had to make sure she was at her best with a the first bath the night before. She has gained her birth weight back so she was 7lbs 7 ounces and the doctor said she looked great. She has a little bit of jaundice but nothing a little milk cant help get rid of. Marli has been doing pretty good at night. She gives us about 2 1/2 hours of sleep and usually a 3 hour stretch around 5am. Life is still good.

Here are some pics of Marli's first bath. There was another cute one but it was Xrated so couldnt share with everyone. :)