Smiling Falling Down

Yesterday was my first day completely alone with Isabelle.  She did what every newborn does, sleep, eat, burp, and poop.  How can such a little person make so much poop????  Pretty much with every diaper change!  It’s not like it’s alot, but I don’t remember Adam pooping so much.  I will ask the doctor tomorrow if this is ok or is it something with the formula.  We’ve pretty much got our routine down.  If she gets a bottle between 10 and 11pm she won’t get up til about 2 or 3 am and then she’ll sleep til around 6:30 or 7 am.  She’s a good baby.  She hates diaper changes, but I would too if I had to be wiped like that everytime.  Her bottom is already red and there was some slight bleeding on her raw bottom.  So, I’ve switched to rinsing her off so we don’t have to always use the wipes.  Other than that she only gets fussy when she is hungry.  It’s amazing to feed her and look down at her as she gazes at you.  Yesterday I actually got a picture of her smiling!  We were talking, ok so I was talking, and the left side of her mouth was kinda smiling so I grabbed the camera.  I talked some more and made funny sounds and she gave me the biggest smile!  I caught it perfectly!   I don’t care what anyone says, she smiled at me and it wasn’t gas….so there!

My Mommy Is So Funny!

Adam is slowly adjusting.  He’s realizing that she’s here to stay.  He wakes up and sees her and says Baby.  When he comes home he smiles at her.  He’s been helping bring stuff to her and finally gave her a kiss this morning.  He wasn’t really wanting to touch her, but he’s getting used to her.  I think he’s going to be an awesome big brother and she’s going to have all of us wrapped around her little finger! 

I’m concerned about Daniel.  His work is very demanding.  He has been great about getting off work in time to get Adam since I can’t.  But that means he takes care of some work from home.  Typically he does this once the house is quiet and usually the rest of us are asleep.  There have been many nights that I wake up at 1 or 2am and he’s still on the computer.  This wasn’t a big deal, but now that Isabelle is here I think he’s trying to do too much and not resting enough.  Right now we all need to be at our best.  Daniel tends to take on too much and not hand anything over.  Not necessarily a bad thing.  I just don’t want him to wear himself out and miss out on the truly special moments in life.  You can’t get those back. 

Yesterday I fell.  I was walking to in the living room and trip over a toy.  Down I went.  Fortunately I caught myself before landing on my stomach.  That would have been bad.  It hurt so bad and Daniel had to help me up.  He took a look at my incision to make sure it was still closed.  Turns out there is a staple that has come loose on one side.  We don’t know if it’s from the fall or just loosened itself.  Poor Daniel, he was so worried that something terrible had happened.  Thankfully, I don’t feel any additional soreness or anything. 

Gotta go, Isabelle is waking up.