Audrey Update

Audrey turned a month old the day after Thanksgiving. The three of us decided to go out to eat at our neighborhood On The Border to celebrate...plus I have been craving Mexican food for weeks! This was our first restaurant experience with her and she slept through the whole meal so Bryan and I had a hot meal that we could both could eat at the same time. It was so nice!

We went to the pediatrician this past Monday because Audrey's umbilical cord still had not come off (it finally fell off yesterday)...they weighed her and she is weighing 9.5 lbs. She is still eating every three hours and playing first then sleeping between feedings. We have our good days and then our not so great days...like today she just wants to be held, which I love to do, but it doesn't make for such a productive day. (Although, I'm getting pretty good at typing with one hand.) Usually she loves to lay on her mat by herself for almost an hour just staring at the hanging toys and kicking away.

(Her play mat. She loves just staring at the flowers & butterflies on the sides.)

(In her swing...she only likes it for about 10 minutes, if were lucky!)

(Swaddled...she usually fights it at first, but eventually gives in and falls asleep)

(Napping in her bassinet with her Mommy Sounds Bear...which she loves!)

At night we do our last feeding around 11pm. I nurse her in our chair and then swaddle her and rock her to sleep. She is sleeping in her pack and play that is set up right beside my side of our bed. She is now sleeping from 11:30pm till about 6am, then I feed her and put her in bed with Bryan and I. She falls right back to sleep and we sleep till around 9:00. This is how a typical night looks...Nighty-night!

(Mommy, Audrey, Millie, and Sadie (usually lower on my legs) asleep)