2 weeks old
Lulu continues to be one of the best babies, EVER.
She pretty much sleeps most of the time. During the day this week she’s been sleeping for 3 hour clips in between bottles (instead of every 2 hours like last week) and at night she sleeps anywhere from 3-5 hours at a time. She eats like a champ. When she’s hungry and we don’t have a bottle ready she manages to get at least two fingers in her mouth to suck on while she’s waiting. It’s too cute.
She gets the hiccups a LOT (which she had a lot while she was still in my tummy. It used to drive me nuts!) and recently she has begun to get frustrated when she gets them. Oh, and we discovered that she has a little strawberry birthmark on her head underneath all of her hair.
We take her out with us every chance we get. She’s already been to half of the fine establishments around Salem, in the tattoo shop (they wouldn’t tattoo her yet…j/k!) and for many walks outside. People stop to look at her all of the time because she’s such a little peanut.
Forrest’s paternity leave is over and he is heading back to work on Monday-leaving Lulu and me on our own. We’ll miss having him here with us, but we’ll make the best of our time together.
Lulu & Daddy
On Monday morning we have a movie date at Salem Cinema. They’ve got a “mommy and me” show at 10 am and they’re showing “The Mummy” free for all the mommies. Then Lulu’s aunties, Chrissy & Sara, are coming to visit for the day!
August 4th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
And we came and we hung out indeed. YAY for lizzie’s little monster!!
August 5th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Aw Lizzie, words can’t express how happy I am for you guys. It was a real thrill to read all the entries in this blog. Thanks for sharing so much. Your baby is beautiful. The pic of Forrest holding Lulu on his shoulder made me cry actually. It brought back a lot of memories of my kids when they were newborns. It can be a challenging time, believe me, I know. But there is an emotional space so unique to being with a newborn…it defies description partly because newborns are so pre-verbal. But this space glows. It is not ordinary. It may have been Walt Whitman who said infants come “…trailing veils of glory….” – and they do. They are from somewhere else for a short while. Enjoy it. It’s over so quickly
Congrats
I’ll RSS to the blog!!
<3 M