One Week Old

Christa is one week old today. She has nestled herself perfectly into our family.

Christa's first outing....to the Doctor's. She was 3 days old and a bit jaundiced....but oh so cute

I just couldn't resist tucking Christa in bed with Jacob.

Jacob thought it was so funny.

Daddy is loving having Christa so much, and I'm sure she loves

her Daddy, but since he doesn't have "baby's milk" she isn't

as attentive to him as she is to mom :)

Long and skinny feet. Maybe she'll share shoes with mom

one day.

Jacob holding Sister.

John turned his back (we are still getting used to a toddler

and newborn combo) for a second, just as Jacob decided he

was done holding her. Jacob just set her down on the couch

next to him. Thankfully I was there taking this picture, so I could

rescue Christa.....who didn't seem to notice.





Week One:

Well, this week....hmmmm where do I start. First, I"ll keep it real. I've been SORE and TIRED. I won't go into details there, if you've had a baby or your wife has had a baby you know the details. But I will say, I'm not as tired as I was with Jacob (my labor wasn't as long or hard this time around. I'm attributing it to that).

Christa is wonderful. She started to get hungry when she was 2 days old, after we were home. She hardly ate a thing in the hospital....but has turned out to be a great nurser. She discovered her voice on day 3. On day 3 she had her first Dr's appointment. She was down to 6lb 7oz. Jacob was never that small, and it has been fun to have a little tiny baby to cuddle.

She eats every 2-4 hours. She only wanted to sleep with mom for DAYS. Finally after several nights of trying everything (swing, co-sleeper, in bed with me which she loves and I hate), we figured out she will sleep in the pack n play that has a vibrate mode. YAY!

She also only wants to fall asleep if she is nursing, and since she is so cute and newborn, I let her.

But today finally she had some awake time where she wasn't desperate to eat (all week it has been sleep or eat or cry that she's not eating). So I helped her go to sleep not nursing, hopefully as the weeks go by she'll get better at that.

This weekend we had newborn portraits taken, I can't wait to share those!

Christa looks a lot like Jacob did, but she is darker and her nose is a bit more like mine. It will be fun to watch her develop into her own look as time goes on. She has lots of hair....I'm sure it will fall out, but until then it is so pretty.

I could go on and on. This daughter of mine has doting parents, brother, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. She's a dream!