The First 2 Weeks

Wow....I've already been a mommy for 2 weeks! How did that happen? At times it seems it's gone by so fast and other times it seems to be moving in slow motion. I think the past few weeks have brought me so many different emotions I probably couldn't even list them all. From the moment we brought our girl into the world she has been loved by so many people. We had so many visitors in the hospital and we're so grateful to have amazing friends who care so much about us and Blakely. We ended up staying in the hospital for 5 days and came home on Friday, September 13th. My parents stayed the night that evening before they had to go back home. It was nice having them here to love on their sweet new granddaughter. Once we were home she pretty much just slept....and slept....and ate and pooped and slept some more. We were ok with that. It made for an easy transition home. Her first appointment with the pediatrician went well too. She had gained weight and everything else about her checked out just fine. We were pretty pleased to hear that. What wasn't so pleasing was that she required 3 diaper changes while we were there! Yikes! We had her newborn pictures made when she was a week old and she did great. She was a little fussy at first but it was nothing that a full belly wouldn't cure. We've seen a few sneak peek photos that our photographer (Queen Bee Studios- Kattie Hansen) let us see and they were amazing. Don't you think? Seriously, if you need photos done you should look up Kattie, she does great work!

Then the next week hit us and we were shocked at how our sweet sleeping girl seemed to be so upset all the time. She had a really rough few days of crying so much that we didn't know what was wrong with her. I have to admit I was pretty scared for Cody to go back to work but there wasn't much of a choice in the matter. He went back to work yesterday and surprisingly she did really well. She knew I needed the reassurance I guess! We had our last appointment at the SARA Study yesterday and she did really well getting in the carseat and the drive over and even laying in the little cradle long enough for them to get a good reading. She slept a lot throughout the day yesterday and only got fussy when Daddy got home. I guess that was her way of saying "I missed you!" So I'm sure I missed a lot of the last 2 weeks recap but it's honestly gone really fast. I couldn't be more in love with this sweet little girl even when she's crying. She stresses me out sometimes when she cries and I can't console her but I know that's just part of learning to be a mommy. We'll figure each other out soon I know. I'll leave you with a few pictures that I couldn't share in the last post.

P.S. I swear I know how to type using paragraphs but for some reason Blogger keeps running them together. If you know how to fix this I'm all ears! =)