(Our daily life.)

This is a cute picture, of a cute girl, who really needs a bath. This girl hates her bath so I really have to gear up for it. Daddy said not to give her a bath while he is at work--something about Gracie needing extra emotional support... =P She will be getting a bath when Daddy gets home from work. Absolutely. What else had Gracie been up to? She is starting to recognize us. She will occasionally look up at me and smile. Other times she looks at me like "who are you again?". Yeah. She is starting to "talk" a little bit. She can get her fist up to her mouth and suck on her hand. Sometimes. She will lay on the floor on her blanket for short periods of time. She hung out in her swing for a little while this morning. She loves to be in the sling . Unfortunately, she has been fighting some tummy issues. She was getting more formula and I think it was upsetting her tummy. Big time. So, we are back to just nursing. That has helped some but she still get "the gases...

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Gracie at one month: loves to sleep and hates it when you wake her up loves her hands loves it when Daddy sings to her can hold her head up for short periods of time--when she wants to hates her car seat does not like to get dressed or have her diaper changed doesn't really like taking a bath and screams when you wash her hair wears newborn size clothing nurses and takes a bottle is about to outgrow her newborn size diapers loves to take a nap while Mommy holds her sleeps 2-1/2 to 3 hours stretches at night

  4 weeks old.

We had to take Gracie for a weight check when she was 4 days old (2 days after we came home from the hospital). She had lost 1 pound, which put her at 11% loss from her birth weight. Since she had lost more than 10% of her birth weight, they wanted us to give her some formula, along with nursing. They gave us a long, thin tube attached to a syringe. You tape the tube to your finger and then put your finger in her mouth and she sucks the formula through the tube. Beware, if she is hungry she will suck your finger off. We had to take her back for a weight check the following day and she was up a few ounces. Then, we had to take her back after 2 more days. She had gone down a few ounces so we had to increase the amount of formula we were giving her. And, we had to take her back in 24 hours. The next day she had gained a few ounces. We again had to go back in 24 hours. I think we went for a weight check almost every day last week. It is one of the only places I have been since Gracie ...

This was Gracie's "Halloween costume." We don't really celebrate Halloween around here. Our church has a Harvest Party instead. I found this orange onesis at WalMart, for $3, before she was born. It made me laugh. And, it didn't have skulls or anything else creepy on it. So, this was her costume.