Another Two Weeks....

Another two weeks has flown by since I blogged on here. Time flies by so fast since Mackenzie has come into our lives. She has now started socially smiling. She enjoys being held more than anything else. She hates being in a wet diaper and tummy time. She can hold her head up and today pushed herself up a little bit with her chest leaving the floor. When she is in her swing, she bats her hands at Tigger and Pooh. I am trying to teach her who they are for when we go to Disney in January. I am so incredibly proud of her. Everyday I come to love her more. It's so gratifying when you can stop the tears and she curls up in your arms and gets cozy.

Last Saturday we went to Tia's baby shower. Mackenzie got to spend some time socializing with other grown ups as well as Ella and Riley. She was very manageable and it was really great for us to get out and be with other people besides family.

Since Mackenzie has become so manageable, we have decided to go to PA in three weeks. It will be a very short visit so we'll see how many people she actually gets to see. It's going to be hard since we're not planning on going up there again for a few years. We want to take the next few years to be our family and go on the vacations that we choose like Disney World and maybe a Disney Cruise in 2011.

And by the way I got in yet another car accident. I was on my way to my 6-week postpartum appointment and some 70-year old lady pulled out in front of me. Allstate must really love me right now.

Almost One Month Old

I can't believe it's again been two weeks since I've blogged about my Mackenzie. Yesterday she turned 4 weeks old. Luckily for us she has slept through the night the last two nights. The first of which until 5:30am and this morning until 6:00am. (The dogs even slept in ths morning until 6.) She is visibly gaining weight, we put her on our food scale this morning and she appear to be about 6 1/2 pounds. her newborn size clothing actually fits her properly, she isn't swimming in it anymore. She gets more and more beautiful every single day.

I've had quite a few challenges now that Josh has gone back to work. Our first day together was great. She did nothing more than sleep, eat, poop. Our second day was pure torture. She wouldn't go back to bed after I was up the night before his shift with her. She spent most of the day crying minimally consolable. I was exhausted being unable to get a nap since she was so miserable. She finally went to sleep around 1am but was back awake at 3 and refused to go back to sleep until 6. The more she cried, the more I did. It was the worst day she's had since birth. The two other shifts that have passed since then have been much better. She's been fantastic and hopefully stays that way. We've learned some tricks from this book I just finished called "The Happiest Baby on the Block". I can't believe how something as simple as just swaddling her properly can make her calmer within minutes.

We had our first night out this week. We went out for Mexican with some of our friends. Oh how this experience was so different than before Mackenzie. She needed her diaper changed 3 times while we were there. She got passed around the table. Our friend Mandy who has never been around babies held her and even changed her diaper! She was fussy while we were at the restaurant. It's amazing how your feelings change from being annoyed by the crying baby to the parents who is annoying everyone else with your crying baby.