Emma Claire Eight Weeks

Well if I had to pick a best week out of the eight weeks Emma Claire and I have spent together...I'd have to say this has been my favorite so far. She has started sleeping through the nights, a trend that I hope continues, and is just overall such a happy baby! I really do think this is because of my dairy elimination. I'm going to do a post on that and breastfeeding soon, once I'm sure it's working! ;-)

Christmas baby!

Loves: Nursing, bath time, playing with Daddy, her swing, riding in the car (although getting in the carrier is a totally different story!)

Eating: This is hard to gauge. She eats every few hours. I just feed her when she wakes and then we play and I feed her again right before her next nap. She likes multiple feedings :-)

Sleeping: WONDERFUL! She has been falling asleep around 10:30pm and waking up between 7am-9am. She also takes a morning nap, afternoon nap, and a short evening nap.

Clothes: Bye bye newborn clothes :-( Seriously I'm not ready for her to be wearing THREE month clothes! Where did my newborn baby go?! This weekend I'm going to clean out her clothes because we have so many newborn outfits that don't fit anymore.

Fun Facts: Emma Claire has started to smile ALL THE TIME! Now she was a smiley baby before but now I can smile and make noises at her and she will just smile right back at me for a long time! I'm wondering if this is because she feels better without dairy in Mommy's milk???

Mommy Moments: I went to my doctor this week (late I know!) and everything was great! Here's a fun little story for ya...I got to my Doctor's office at 1:30pm for a 1:50pm appointment. I was back in the room at about 1:45pm. Well  no one came to tell me that my doctor left to deliver a baby right after I got undressed and ready. I was sitting there only wearing a little cover, waiting...and waiting...and WAITING. Let's not forget I was trying to keep my eight week old happy in her carrier the whole time. She was fussy because she was hungry and I was hesitant to take her out of the carrier to give her the bottle because I just knew my doctor would come right in when I did! Finally after little miss decided to potty I stuck my head out the door to get a nurse and ask if I would be seen soon. The nurse panicked and said, "oh...did no one tell you? She left to deliver a baby." I said that no one had told me and that I was getting dressed to go change the baby. Needless to say everyone felt really bad that I had been in the room for an HOUR AND A HALF. Yes, it had been that long. And I know...I should've said something WAY before that but Emma Claire had been really fussy and I spent that hour and a half trying to get her to eat/fall asleep so I had no clue it had been that long. Well wouldn't you know it...my doctor came running back to my room right as I was in the ladies room changing Emma Claire! HA! Of course :-) It sounds much worse than it was...the Hubster was WAY more upset than I was! The receptionist felt so bad that she gave me a $10 gift card to Dairy Queen. Kind of ironic seeing as I'm off dairy right now ;-) But it was sweet of them to do that.

Firsts: First Christmas!!! First time shopping in Old Navy, first time to go to Mommy's doctors office, first time to sleep TEN hours!!! :-)

Picture Perfect

Phone Pictures

First time in Old Navy!

First time at Mommy's Doctor office.

Little ham! I just love all of her faces!

Week eight was pretty great ;-)