A Whole New Experience.....

Saturday Hannah was 8 weeks old! I cannot believe it has been 8 weeks! I don't know where the time has gone. This milestone also means that the count down to going back to work and the dreaded daycare has begun. Fortunately I enjoy my job so that makes that part a little easier and we have 2 wonderful grandmas that are going to help us out until March so the going back to work and the going to daycare don't have to start on the same day!!
Enough of the not so fun stuff....
Since Hannah is 8 weeks old she has grown so much and she is so much fun! She is sleeping so much better at night, not through the night but better, this means I can almost be considered a functional adult again. And she smiles at you now and its the most wonderful smile you have ever seen!! Here are some pics...

Ok, well I have not blogged in a while and a ton has happened. I figure since I have 4 weeks until I go back to work that regardless of the amount of sleep I get at night I need to try and get into some kind of routine and get back to doing the things I have always done...blogging, running and actually getting out into the real world.
Anyways, since I have blogged we have had babies first Christmas...now she had no clue what was going on but she managed to get a ton of great stuff and it was lots of fun to have her around. Christmas also meant Hannah's first long trip in the car, we spent Christmas at my moms. She traveled great and actually slept great while we were there. Here are some pics from Christmas..


Another first...
Since I am going back to work in a few weeks we have given Hannah her first bottle, we don't do it very often but we wanted to make sure she actually took one...this also meant that Chuck got to feed her. Hannah is just a good eater all around so she took to the bottle like a champ...


Hannah is 7 weeks old, which is very hard to believe, I have no idea where the weeks went....Its amazing how much she has grown and all the things she can do now....She smiles all the time which makes the long nights seem not quite so bad. We are working on some kind of routine, hopefully this will make her sleep better at night...crossing my fingers..

Well it's hard to believe that our daughter is one month old today! It has probably been one of the hardest months of my life but it has also been the most incredible!! We have learned so much and I just couldn't imagine our life without her anymore!
Some of the things I have learned...
1. There are actually good shows on tv at all hours of the night.
2. The couch in the basement isn't a bad place to sleep.
3. Days fly by when they are sectioned off in 2 hour increments.
4. I have an amazing husband (this part I already knew), but I didn't know he would be the one to keep me sane through a never ending night of feeding and crying!

This is a big week for Hannah.
-Today was her 1 month doctors appointment. The doctor says she looks great. The day she was born she was 7lbs 5 oz., and 20 inches long, today she was 9 lbs 4 oz. and 21 inches long.
-Hannah got to try her first bottle yesterday, I finally got my breastpump so we decided to give the bottle thing a try. Some babies struggle with the bottle if they have been breast fed so I wanted to start this early so it was one less thing I had to stress about when I start worrying about going back to work.
-Hannah's first Christmas!! Now I know she isn't really going to care much about Christmas but it is going to make Christmas so much more fun with her around!

So I know I have been a serious blogging slacker, its funny cause I haven't really even left this house for 3 weeks, I am sitting here jealous of Chuck today because he is at the Colts game and I haven't gotten to do anything like that since little Hannah arrived. I am not complaining, it is just tough to get used to sometimes, plus I get stir crazy!!
I need to catch you up, a ton has been going on, Hannah was 3 weeks old this past Saturday! Its amazing how attached you can become in such a short period of time. We have been to the doctor twice. Week 1 she still wasn't up to her birth weight of 7.5 lbs but the doctor said that was normal and she was looking good. That first week is kind of a blurr plus it was Thanksgiving so there were a ton of people around. At week 2 Hannah was 7 lbs 13 oz. which means she is eating good. That made me feel a ton better. Breastfeeding is very difficult at times and the night before the second doctors appointment Hannah was up all night long and it seemed like all she wanted to do is eat and I felt like I couldn't feed her enough.
There have been 3 miserable nights since she has arrived, one night I didn't get to bed until 6 am, it was horrible, the next night I didn't get to sleep until after 2 and it was sleeping on the couch. Chuck and I have tried a few different things and the past 2 nights have been better, hopefully we can keep that up. I still haven't slept more then 3 hours straight since she arrived but that is my choice since we are breastfeeding. It is amazing how quickly days go when they are in 2 hour increments!
Hopefully we are settling into some kind of routine, or at least getting used to things so I can keep this blog updated. Here are more pics...