Stuff mostly about my child

You really shouldn't be surprised that this little nugget will be the bulk of my posts from now on. She's who I spend my time with all day, every day.  And can you blame me for being completely smitten?

Look at that double chin! And this is the closest to smiling she is getting right now. . so close!

Below is how she keeps me company most of the day. Let me tell you, this bouncer thing is AMAZING. All I have to do is plop her in it when I need to get stuff done and as long as she's within reach of my foot rocking her in it, we are golden. In this picture she's keeping me company while I get ready for the day. She's getting to the point where she can focus on a lot more things and finds a lot of weird things fascinating, like this cupboard. She likes to stare at lights especially. Like a moth to the flame. . . . 

Like I said, she's able to focus easier on things, so it's a lot more entertaining. She's cooing a lot more too. It's really cute. She turns her head when she hears me or Paul talking. 

This happened while I was making dinner one night. She loves it when we sing to her, but this she was unsure about. Meaning, she acted like she liked it for about 10 minutes. . .then started to cry. Overstimulation, perhaps?

I found out she likes it when I make that sound when you are rolling your tongue, or when you click it. She makes this face every time and sticks out her tongue. So cute.

Other things going on:

-I realize I want to throat punch anyone that tells me their newborn was sleeping through the night at 2 weeks or however old. . .do you really think a sleep deprived parent wants to hear about that??? She's not a horrible sleeper, but she still wakes up one to two times a night wanting to eat. Sometimes she eats and then goes right back to sleep. Sometimes she wants to stay awake and hang out. Sometimes she sleeps for a good 6 hour stretch. Sometimes it's only 3 1/2. I may or may not have had a little melt down the other day because my sleep deprived brain was desperately wanting her to somehow be consistent and sleep longer and it just isn't happening yet. That's what I'm trying to remember at 2 in the morning. That she's still a tiny baby and it will take time. But it will happen, right??? Someday we'll get our evenings back when she goes to bed at like 7 and we'll have a good stretch of sleep before she wakes up again, right?????

-It's been an adjustment going from working full time to being a mom full time. The main thing that's been hard is to not have adult company around to talk to. Sure I talk with Lauren, but it's different, as we all know. And I miss two sided conversations. All the billing stuff I did I don't miss one bit, but the company was fun. 

-Right now my clothes fit. . . .weird. My body is weird to me right now. I'm still wearing maternity pants and mainly just t-shirts because they are comfy. I haven't even tried to put on my pre-pregnancy jeans. I know I'm not fat or whatever, but there are definite changes and I am interested to see how much stays changed, or how much will go back to normal. I have my 6 week follow up appointment next week and I'm assuming everything is fine and I'll get the ok to work out and I plan to (I know that I'll be needing those endorphines to help me mentally and physically stay upbeat.) I'm trying to mentally tell myself that it took 9 months for my body to go through these changes in the first place, so I need to give myself 9 months to get back.

And that's about it for now. My life now revolves around this tiny human. And yes, I will admit that it is TIRING a lot of the time and weird to think that this is my life now. . . . forever. But she is so cute and I'm so smitten that I know it's a sacrifice worth making.