Thoughts from Babyland
Instead of setting aside time for lengthy blog posts, I'm just going to have to jot down random thoughts that are in my head for a while I think... kind of like collections of facebook status updates. So here ya go:
It's official... C is an awesome baby. She rarely cries and seems to have a completely laid back personality. I know this may change as she gets older and becomes more wakeful, but I can sort of sense even now that she's a chilled out little gal. And she's super sweet, cuddly and lovable. I know I know, all babies are, but I'm really loving this particular baby. AND she slept a 4.5-hour stretch last night. She wins the baby of the year award for sure.
The girls are adjusting well. N is absolutely thrilled with C and asks to hold her at least five times every day. And she's really helping out by doing things like getting diapers, blankets, or binkies for me. Today she helped L take her shoes off, unprompted. She's really rising to the challenge of being Mommy's helper and I'm so proud of her!
L is interested in the baby, but slightly rough... not intentionally, it's just the way she does everything right now. She tends to get pretty upset when we tell her to be gentle. In fact, she's a bit over-sensitive about everything right now, and I get the feeling that she's always kind of mad at me. I remember having this feeling from N when we first brought L home from the hospital too, so I know it's pretty normal. As I predicted, I have a hard time not feeling really sad for her, and wanting to cuddle and love her and assure her that she's still my baby too. I try to do as much of that as I can, but it's not always possible, obviously. She's adapting though, and gets over any negative emotions pretty quickly, so it could be a lot worse.
I'm so glad that I have a photogenic daughter. She was sent home with a "book buddy" from preschool and we were supposed to take a picture of her with it before returning it to school for the next child to take home. I forgot to get the picture before the day we were supposed to return it, so the teachers gave me the weekend to get the project accomplished. I kept forgetting, or getting distracted, until finally I pulled the camera out between feedings once and snapped this picture on the first try:
It's official... C is an awesome baby. She rarely cries and seems to have a completely laid back personality. I know this may change as she gets older and becomes more wakeful, but I can sort of sense even now that she's a chilled out little gal. And she's super sweet, cuddly and lovable. I know I know, all babies are, but I'm really loving this particular baby. AND she slept a 4.5-hour stretch last night. She wins the baby of the year award for sure.
The girls are adjusting well. N is absolutely thrilled with C and asks to hold her at least five times every day. And she's really helping out by doing things like getting diapers, blankets, or binkies for me. Today she helped L take her shoes off, unprompted. She's really rising to the challenge of being Mommy's helper and I'm so proud of her!
L is interested in the baby, but slightly rough... not intentionally, it's just the way she does everything right now. She tends to get pretty upset when we tell her to be gentle. In fact, she's a bit over-sensitive about everything right now, and I get the feeling that she's always kind of mad at me. I remember having this feeling from N when we first brought L home from the hospital too, so I know it's pretty normal. As I predicted, I have a hard time not feeling really sad for her, and wanting to cuddle and love her and assure her that she's still my baby too. I try to do as much of that as I can, but it's not always possible, obviously. She's adapting though, and gets over any negative emotions pretty quickly, so it could be a lot worse.
I'm so glad that I have a photogenic daughter. She was sent home with a "book buddy" from preschool and we were supposed to take a picture of her with it before returning it to school for the next child to take home. I forgot to get the picture before the day we were supposed to return it, so the teachers gave me the weekend to get the project accomplished. I kept forgetting, or getting distracted, until finally I pulled the camera out between feedings once and snapped this picture on the first try:
In fact, it seems I have two photogenic daughters:
Or perhaps even three?
It has taken me longer to feel "back to normal" after giving birth this time... luckily I didn't have stitches, so I didn't have to recover from that... but I spent most of last week feeling like I had just run a marathon-- a lot of abdominal soreness, back pain, and general physical fatigue. I think my day-to-day life just involves a lot more lifting, getting up and down, etc. and maybe I was doing more of those things than I should have before my body was really ready. Over the weekend, however, I've started to feel much better, and of course after getting a night of decent sleep I feel pretty good too. I'm hoping that means that this week will bring some opportunities for us all to get out of the house-- the bigger girls and I all tend to get a little stir crazy staying home too much. I hope I'll continue to feel physically up to the challenge of getting three little ones clothed, diapered, in hats, coats and mittens, and out the door. Right now I feel pretty ready to do that. We'll see what the week brings!
P.S. I am beyond grateful for the help of my Mom, who was with us all of last week and is coming back tomorrow for a few days. It has made the adjustment SO much easier for everyone. You rock Mom!!
Okay so that turned into a lengthy blog post after all. Three girls napping at the same time!! How lucky am I?
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