Riley had a great first Thanksgiving. She got to celebrate with the Hamilton's last Sunday and with the Olstad's on Thanksgiving. She is growing so fast it's amazing. She's gained 3 pounds and grown 4 inches since she was born. No wonder she has to stretch all the time! We're starting to get settled into a routine with her and it has been so great. For the most part she is a great baby and mom is starting to venture out with her more and more during the day. We go to the mall to get some exercise, we go meet dad for lunch, this week we're going to get some Christmas shopping done. She also went to see Santa last week and get her picture taken.
So we've been keeping busy. Life pretty much revolves around our little peanut. Ed finished up his school semester. We managed to squeeze in one date night a few weeks ago while my parents babysat. Riley's been to church a couple times and has done really well. Those are some of the big updates from us for right now!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Almost 3 weeks old
Man time flies! Definitely not updating the blog as often but I barely have time to check email anymore. We are on day 2 of attempting a nap schedule. So far....she's napping right now. So things have been going pretty good. She is still figuring out her nighttime schedule, so mom isn't getting a ton of sleep, but dad is good about coming home in the evenings and taking over for a few hours so mom can nap.
Ed had Art Attack this weekend, an art crawl at the studio all weekend, so mom and Riley were on our own. We took a trip up to the studio with Aunt Becky to see dad, and Grandma and Grandpa came over and visited Riley. She had her two week checkup last week and is almost back to her birth weight, which is awesome. Mom had her post op checkup yesterday and also checked out ok, so we're both doing good!
The only issue Riley's been having is with feeding. If anyone asked me if there's one thing I wasn't expecting with having a baby, it is how tough breastfeeding is. And how much work it is. She is such a putsy (is that a word? I use it but when I spell it out it doesn't look right. Whatever.) eater that she takes forever and she doesn't take that much when she's breastfeeding, so the last 3 or 4 days, she'll eat and then an hour be screaming hungry again. So mom talked to her other mom friend Jackie who gave her the brilliant idea to just pump and feed her just with a bottle so we know how much she's getting. And she drinks a bottle like a champ. So we started that last evening and she had a much better night! Actually went 3 hours between feedings without being hungry again. So we'll see how that goes. I'm kind of alternating between the two right now. But I've quickly learned that a full baby is a happy baby.
That's all for now....coming up this week Riley has her first lunch date out with some of mom's friends, and is going to her first football party this Sunday!
Ed had Art Attack this weekend, an art crawl at the studio all weekend, so mom and Riley were on our own. We took a trip up to the studio with Aunt Becky to see dad, and Grandma and Grandpa came over and visited Riley. She had her two week checkup last week and is almost back to her birth weight, which is awesome. Mom had her post op checkup yesterday and also checked out ok, so we're both doing good!
The only issue Riley's been having is with feeding. If anyone asked me if there's one thing I wasn't expecting with having a baby, it is how tough breastfeeding is. And how much work it is. She is such a putsy (is that a word? I use it but when I spell it out it doesn't look right. Whatever.) eater that she takes forever and she doesn't take that much when she's breastfeeding, so the last 3 or 4 days, she'll eat and then an hour be screaming hungry again. So mom talked to her other mom friend Jackie who gave her the brilliant idea to just pump and feed her just with a bottle so we know how much she's getting. And she drinks a bottle like a champ. So we started that last evening and she had a much better night! Actually went 3 hours between feedings without being hungry again. So we'll see how that goes. I'm kind of alternating between the two right now. But I've quickly learned that a full baby is a happy baby.
That's all for now....coming up this week Riley has her first lunch date out with some of mom's friends, and is going to her first football party this Sunday!
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