5 Hours!!

I got 5 straight hours of sleep last night!!!  It was heavenly!  This is the most sleep I have had since… oh… about June 5th!!!  I’m a girl who loves her sleep, so this is all very exciting to me!

I’m really starting to think this ‘dream feeding’ is so the key to sleeping!!  I have done it all week (except the one night where she wouldn’t) and we have only woke up once and then not again until 6:30. 

When she woke up at 3:30 this morning and I looked at the clock to see what time it was - I about jumped out of bed to go get the little squirt and give her tons of praises, hugs, and kisses for sleeping so good!  Except during these night time feedings – I don’t say a word to her.  I want her to know that this is not a time for fun – just changing diapers (yes diapers!  I’ll change her and she’ll dirty another one before I even get back to bed in that hour!) feeding and back to sleep as quickly as we can!

The perks of working at home… baby can sleep on your desk!!

The Friday before Mallory was born my sister came with me to my Dr. appointment.  On the way home from the appointment we drove past the prison (where Jesse works) and my sister says “So, when it is take your child to work day… who will Blueberry go with?”  I don’t think Jesse can put little Mallory on his desk… and I can… so she’ll come with me!  : )

Creating a Schedule

I’m a routine kind of girl, so that means I would love it if Mallory was a routine kind of baby!  This week I am trying to create that in her.  Jesse went back to work and I thought it would be perfect timing to start our own little routine here at home.

I asked my friend about how she put her kids on a schedule and she said she used BabyWise and said it worked out great for them.  I don’t have the book – so I googled BabyWise and found a blog on it!  Of course the first thing I clicked on was how to get your baby to sleep longer at nights and sleep threw the night!!

One of the things they tell you to do is to feed them at night at 6, 8 and dream feed them at 10.  Dream feed is where you feed them and they are not fully awake.  So I tried this the last couple of nights.  The first night worked great with only waking up once!  The second night, not so great!  I couldn’t get her to wake up enough to have her dream feeding!  She seriously pressed her lips together and would not open her mouth!!  I even changed her diaper and she still didn’t wake up!  So I put her to bed and she woke up twice that night!!  Last night I was able to give her a dream feeding and she only woke up once again.  So I think they are onto something with this dream feeding business!! 

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What’s a post without pictures?  Last night we took Miss Mallory for a walk out in the woods.  Jesse has taken her a couple of times and he puts her in this little sling that we bought.  But I don’t really like our sling because she looks like a ball in there and it doesn’t look comfortable.  So I tried out this other carrier thing that I found in my sister’s stuff at my parents house.  (Shannon did you even know you had this?)  Mally was so stinkin cute in it that I just had to take some pictures!!

It went from 90 degrees hot and humid weather to barely 50 degrees windy and cold weather!  So she had to buddle up in her little hat and I had to put a blanket around her!

I wanted her to stay awake on our walk – but she must of been too comfy in there because she fell asleep.

But she woke up when I was getting her out of it.  She is so alert these days and she just checks every thing out.  She is also starting to give us big smiles!  And while she is sleeping some times it sounds like she is giggling!  Little baby noises are too cute!!

Just Want to Snuggle

Can you spoil a baby this little by holding and snuggling them all the time?  Because when she is sleeping so good and has her blanket… I want to pick her up and snuggle!  It makes it really hard when her little feet are sticking out too!!

I think my baby is growing already!!  The last couple of days I just look at her and think… you grew!  You look longer!  You feel heavier!  You need to stay little a while longer!!

I ran out of newborn diapers this morning (and my grocery store doesn’t carry the newborn ones!!) so I had some #1 sizes that I must of got as a gift.  I put it on her and it fit!!!  Sniff-sniff-pouty-lip!!  She really must be growing!!

I was asked who she looks like… and I hear a lot of mixed reactions.  Some say she looks like me and other say she looks like Jesse.  Some say she has my mouth and nose and from the eyes up she is Jesse.  Which she so has Jesse’s eyes and eyelashes.  (I wish I could get a picture of her eyelashes for you because they are like giraffe lashes!!  Super long!!)  She is starting to get my hairline (widows peak).  Oh and her hair is getting lighter and is starting to have a tint of red in it!!  We think she might be a little strawberry blonde!!!  She most definitely has Jesse’s ears including his one pointy ear.  And I’m afraid the poor girl got her daddy’s toes!! 

Jesse goes back to work on Monday.  Which means I only have 3 more weeks before I have to go back to work!!  I’m starting to think that this work stuff is overrated and I should just be able to snuggle all day long!  ; )