Make Room Mamma

Okay, so after much delay...here's a new update.  Thanks to Aunt L, baby C is sleeping in a little vibrating chair rather than in my arms or fussing in her crib or playpen.  I have two free hands!  Unfortunately my laptop only has a little battery left.  Naturally.  Also...after not holding her for a while I get all sad and miss her.  It's kind of pathetic, but I'm okay with that.

She looks so blonde here!  

This little girl has been AWESOME!  The passed three nights I've managed to get in about 8 hours of sleep (each night).  No waking Brian at all, no fits, no fussing!  However...I think I know the reason for this, and I'm not excited to say that it will have to come to an end...eventually.  Probably sooner rather than later.  You see, I've been sleeping on the couch with her on my chest.  It is the BEST feeling in the world.  She's so warm and snuggly and soft, and she sleep so soundly!  She doesn't even wake up to eat--she just starts rooting (routing?) and grunting, which alerts me, so I wake up and feed her.  She also goes about 4 hours between feedings at night and doesn't poop at night!  WOW!  I mean...it's awesome.  Of course, then she poops all day and doesn't sleep as much--but hey--after 8 hours of sleep, I can deal with it!  Plus her grandmothers are always willing to come hold her and love on her when I need some rest.  They have been awesome!

This week we are really going to work on getting her comfortable sleeping on her back in her crib or the playpen.  That's the goal for the week...we'll see how I do at sticking with it.  It'll probably be easier to be strict with this during the day than at night.

Cute Camilleisms:
She laughs in her sleep sometimes.  It should be super cute, but at 2am in the dark it's really creepy.  I wake up and see her smiling and giggling this sort of coarse giggle...and I get all freaked out.  It's neat though.

Her poops sound like trumpet blasts.  There's something about our living room recliner that sets them off.  I've seen Mom and B sit with her in that chair and be startled by her blasts.  They aren't like that unless the holder is in that chair.  So not what you're expecting from her little butt!

She grunts and sighs a lot.  When she starts talking, she's going to be a big talker.  She makes lots of noise--it's great.

She curls into a ball when I put her up to burp her.  It is so sweet!  When she does that I can just imagine her in my belly all curled up.  No wonder my belly was so big.  :)

ruffle butt!!  She looks much hammier in this picture than she is.  :)

Recent Events:
We took newborn photos with  mustard-seed-photography.com this week, which was so fun.  Poor C didn't think so--she fussed the whole time, but somehow the amazing Lindsey captured some beautiful shots and Camille's personality and little newborn-ness perfectly.  Amazing.  C also peed on me (twice) and spit up on my clothes before the shoot began.  This means: Lots of laundry, and very few clothes I actually feel comfortable going out in public in.  It is so hard to get dressed and feel decent after a baby comes out of your body.  The good news is:  you don't really care as much.  I am more focused on Camille and her needs and her well-being than my attractiveness (or lack of).  I'd like to just buy a pack of plain black t-shirts that fit and wear those every day.  Black is back!

Today we went to a baby shower for my friend since we were babies together.  It is so great that we are having kids at the same time.  Such a neat little cycle.  I gotta tell you--taking Camille out was hard, and for some other people I may not have done it--but for A, I just couldn't have missed it.  Luckily, Camille was a rock star.  She slept the ENTIRE time except when it was time to feed her.  Feeding her wasn't a problem either--just sort of hid away in a bedroom and covered up with my little cover (thanks Robin!) and then changed her and went back out.  While she was easy, I was worn out!  I came home and slept two straight shifts (only like 3 hours, but still).

Here's the only picture I took from the shower.  Sorry Ms. C.  :)

This week we are going to do a few short little outings to try and get me used to being in public with her.  I've got to go to work and get her put on my insurance and I'm going to get some bottles together so I can start pumping at the end of next week.  That's going to be an adventure!  Hahaha--I can see the blog post now:  Ode to Breastmilk or Pump Up the Jam or perhaps just "Moooooo".

We are more and more in love with her every day!  I'm sad to say that she's already grown so much that I cry at the thought of her growing up.  We put her in the carseat last night to test it out for today's outing and she had outgrown the lowest level of straps!  She was so tiny when we took her home from the hospital that she was all hunched over, and today she was sitting up straight and looked like she fit in the seat!  It makes me feel better about taking her out, but it makes me so sad that she's already grown so much in just 10 days!!

Time really does go too fast.  I'm so glad I'm able to be home with her right now and really enjoy every second with her.  Well...it's been 3 hours since her last feeding...I think it's time to go!