Seven Weeks

Natalie is seven weeks old! She has started smiling in the past week or so. About a week ago I thought I caught one but we weren't entirely sure if it was a real smile or not. I saw one or two more over the course of the week, but today she probably smiled about 5 times! The next task is to get one on camera!

Parent/Teacher Conferences

We had both girls' parent/teacher conferences last week. Just have to brag on them a little bit. :)

Paige: Her teacher said she is doing great and is very smart. She's one of the kids considered more 'ahead'. She is one of the older ones in the class, so this is not a surprise. On her little progress report she did get one area for development - paying attention/not talking during circle time. I thought this was pretty funny. And it explains why she asked me a few weeks ago "Mommy, why did Miss Karen say she was going to separate Mary and me? What does that mean?" Hehe.

Lindsay: Could not have gotten a more glowing report from her teacher, who claims Lindsay is one of her favorites. :) Her teacher said she always has a positive, enthusiastic attitude and is a good role model for the other kids. Wow! She was also assessed as being ahead in Math with 3 others in her class and will be getting 'math enrichment' activities. A child who likes math!!! Yeahhhh!!!!

I am super proud of my girls and hope they continue to love school and learning!

One Month

Natalie had her one month visit on Monday!  She weighed in at 9 lbs. 3oz.  - she is definitely losing that brand new baby look.  I am sooo happy that she is healthy and that we have managed to avoid any illnesses for these first 5.5 weeks!

Paige-isms

Just wanted to record some funny things that Paige said today. 

I was in the kitchen and heard the sounds of the two of them fighting in the living room(as usual).  Before I had a chance to intervene, I hear Paige say " fine then I'm just going to punch you in the head" to Lindsay.  LOL!  I tried to help clear the air but she was really grumpy and mad.  So I said to her, "I think you should go lay on the couch until you cool off", and she replied, "Mommy, I'm not sweaty!"

I couldn't stay mad after that.  :)

Milestone

Two days ago Lindsay started tying shoelaces!  She is just over the moon with excitement and pride.  Yesterday as soon as she got home from school she changed her clothes and put on a pair of pajama shorts just because they had a drawstring she could tie.  It was so cute.  I had just been thinking that I really needed to work on this with her.  Unfortunately, all her shoes are velcro - so she is DYING now for a pair of shoes that have laces.  I told her maybe for Christmas.....any takers??  :)

Halloween

This is a little late but I just got the pictures downloaded yesterday!  I was a bit worried about Halloween costumes this year because new ones were definitely NOT in the budget.  Luckily, when I asked Paige what she wanted to be, she immediately replied Cinderella!!  As luck would have it, we have a Cinderella costume already in our dress up box.  Score!  However, everything is the dress-up box is basically too small for Lindsay at this point.  Then one day I saw some leftover white gauzy type material laying around that looked a lot like a VEIL...and it got me thinking that, paired with her flower girl dress from Melissa's wedding, we had the perfect bride costume!  Luck was on my side this year because Lindsay liked the idea when I suggested it to her.  Whew!  Crisis averted!

A big thank you to Aunt Melissa for sewing the material on to Lindsay's headband!!  :)

And of course, Natalie had to wear the hand me down Tigger costume!!  If I can find the time (yeah, right) I will go back and try to post side by side pictures of all three of them in their first Halloween Tigger outfit!

Sleepless night and Library fun

I slept for about 2-3 hours last night....ughhhhhh....so tired I can barely think!  Not sure why Natalie was so restless.  Maybe a growth spurt?  Or possibly she isn't yet used to sleeping flat in her crib?  During the day she sleeps a lot in her bouncy seat.  Gas?  Reflux??   If only she could talk!  Oh well..until then, we play the guessing game.  Meanwhile Chris and I are zombies today.

So of course today would be the day I was scheduled to volunteer in the school library during Lindsay's class time.  If you know me, you know how excited I was to sign up to help in the library!!  But when this morning rolled around I was so tired I wanted to cry at the thought of going.  But Lindsay was sooo excited - no WAY was I not going to show up.  The good part - it forced me to get dressed in 'real' clothes for the first time since I had Natalie - and I was happy to find that I could fit into my baggy jeans!  (they aren't exactly baggy now, but still!!)  Afterwards I was glad I did it.  It was so cute to see her with her classmates looking for books in the library, and to put faces to some of the names she mentions.  Then I read her class 3 stories at the end of the period!!  How fun!!  A little intimidating, actually, a class of 17 kids looking at you and waiting to hear you read.  According to Lindsay I did just fine.  :)

Here's hoping for at least 4 hours of sleep tonight....

3 weeks

I can't believe it - Natalie is 3 weeks old!! It feels like a lifetime! I will try and give a quick recap of how things are going.

We came home from the hospital on the 12th. Of course we had to make sure we got the traditional 'coming home' photo in the carseat!


Lindsay and Paige are so excited to have her home and they are really great with her. Of course we have to remind them sometimes to be careful, but really they are very gentle and careful with her most of the time.

Natalie has already been to the pediatrician twice and appears to be gaining weight nicely - yay! We will go back at one month for her next check-up (and probably first round of shots - boo). I am psyched that we have made it to 3 weeks without her getting sick - I had been holding my breath until we passed the point where Paige got sick (2 weeks).

At one week old:














2 weeks:















Pictures at 3 weeks are not downloaded yet, of course. Here's one of the birthday girl instead. :)