A day (or two or three) in the life of...

Life is suddenly clear and awesome. What happened? I blinked and our lil Izzy is 'talking' up a storm. Her attention span is incredible and she's getting so big! We put her down for bed last night (in her own crib, mind you!) at 9:30 and at 7 this morning I went to check to see if we had finally broken her because I hadn't heard a peep from her since her bed time. That's unheard of! I'm still in a state of disbelief. I haven't slept a solid 8 hours in about a year! With the pregnancy, I would constantly wake up with the pee parade and then once we brought her home from the hospital, sleep deprivation bitch slapped us until we became conditioned to it. There were a handful of times that she had slept 6 or 7 hours at a stretch and that was crazy in itself but this, this is a whole new world. I told Cowboy that we have to recreate last night's activities, including a solid 30+ minutes of Skype time w/Grandma considering Izzy was intensely engaged for that...

10 semanas!!! Our lil Izzy is 2.5 months tomorrow! Lots happening but I have the lil One napping on me now so not enough time/means to type it all at the moment. In lieu of words, I figured the pics can say it all. These are all pics from this last week.  The bottom set are from today.  Too much cuteness to narrow down to one from the set so I uploaded a quarter of this morning's set of her wearing her set of Baby Legs which I originally bought for baby Rowdy but ended up greedily keeping (I have to admit, I held onto a sliver of hope that Jonnbug may be a girl...) when we had Izzy. I still plan on getting Rowdy a set too. Ok, going to try to lay Lil One down now because the spit up on me back is now cold and icky. Super Sexy visual, I know. Playtime w/her Daddy currently results in the biggest smiles and beginnings of baby giggles. The dimples MELT me!!! This one's called: 5-Oh, Joonbug, be cool! Weekly bathtime pic... At some point, she's not going to let me post ...

Today is Izzy's 2 month mark and she's doing awesome! I put a new outfit on her. Nevermind that it's a 3 month outfit and our lil one isn't big enough for it yet. Notice the matching sneaker socks, care of Tia Buggie. We took her in for her check up today and I'm not gonna lie, I was a lil bit terrified of how the shots would go. We took her in and they did the standard measurements. She's at 9.8 lbs and 22.5 inches long. She's at the 15th percentile for weight but 55th percentile for length, which worries me because now to add onto my b'feeding concerns, now I feel like she's not getting enough to eat because she's not really gaining all that fast. I mean, not bad or of concern for Dr. but he did mention trying to monitor her mood after feedings to make sure she was getting satiated. I know it comes with the territory but: worry, worry, worry. On the bright side, she did AMAZING with her shot. She winced and whined for a few seconds and the...

Wow, where is the time going? I know it's so cliche to say but so true. Izzy's about to turn 2 months tomorrow! I feel like I'm in a time warp and have no real concept of what day/week it is. Let's see, what new developments to share... Well, we're trying to get her used to sleeping w/out being swaddled. It just seemed like it was frustrating her more than soothing. We'd wake up to her grunting in frustration at not being able to wiggle out of her baby straight jacket and it just felt like we were putting her in a time out or something. So far, so good. I mean, it's taking a good while and at least 3 attempts to get her to sleep for the most part. One of us will start the sleepy-making dance w/her by bouncing on the exercise ball while holding her and after her being out for a good 5-10 min, we'll put her down in her bassinett (not quite ready to get her in her crib yet for the nights but we're getting there) w/the sound machine cranking and scurry...

So, we're at 7 weeks and 2 days today! Holy Moly, where did the time go?  Last week was a doozy. We went through the 6 week growth spurt (every time I looked down, there was a head attached to my boob... Izzy's of course) and a mean case of mastitis that left me cursing breastfeeding yet again. Things got much better by this weekend and lil miss America was all sorts of the patriotic mascot on our 4th of July BBQ w/the fams.  Her cousin Noah is particular taken w/her. He kept coming up to delicately hold her hand and stare at her, while whispering her name to her. It was so freaking precious! We had a couple of stretches of Izzy sleeping for 6-7 hours, which were glorious! I was starting to pat myself on the back and feel like we were really getting the swing of things. Oh, rookie Mom... We were doing so well.  Then last night, she decided (around 1am) that she'd start feeding every 2 hours and she has been until she decided at 7 that she was done sleeping or eating a...