Growing

I didn't post about our last doctor appt on Monday. We figured she now weighed over 8lbs but didn't expect the weight we got. She weighed 8 lbs 11.5 ounces on Monday. She gained more than 1lb in a little over 9 days. WOW! In fact we are gaining so well that our newborn clothes don't fit. Granted she only had 3 little newborn outfits but they were all really cute. She easily fits into the 0-3 month clothes and we have lots of those, so we have had a lot of fun with trying on our new outfits and taking pictures. Today we even had a little photo session in our cute outfit from Grandma and Grandpa B.
(That may be my new favorite picture) We also have been enjoying one nice time of "awake" time per day. Today we spent our awake time snuggling with Grandma Coleman.
Our nights have been going well. We have slept the past two nights in our big girl bed and have been easily going 4 hours between eating at least once a night and about 3 or 3.5 hours for the 2nd nighttime feeding. This means I get to actually sleep. She also does good enough that I don't need to wake up Clay in the middle of the night to help. I know he appreciates that since he returned to work. I did wake Grandma C up for the 1am feeding last night (since I knew there was a dirty diaper awaiting me.) but let her sleep for the 4am feeding.
I can not believe how Kenley changes every day and how fast she is growing... what will the next week bring?

Crap! It's bathtime again?

That has to be what Kenley thinks. She did NOT like the bath. We tried to warm up the house, we had the water the right temp, and we warmed up a towel for when she came out. However, this was still what the event looked like.. (Not the best of the pics but the one that doesn't show her girl parts..we are keeping those pics for blackmail when she is older).
In fact, crap is what she did. I had gone as fast as possible but she really showed us what she thought of it. At that point the bath was over and we moved to the counter to clean our butt and then off for a fresh diaper and to get on our pjs. Hopefully she will learn to enjoy these more and we will feel a bit more experienced. I think next time we will try putting her tub in the real tub. This time we had put her tub across the sink in the kitchen and it worked well but its colder in the kitchen.
We do like how soft her hair is after a bath and she smells so good. We like a clean baby but she is getting used to this bathing idea.

Game on!

This post has been brewing for a few days and it just continues to grow. Mainly the ideas and thoughts come in the middle of the night, you know the 3am feeding when I am trying desperately to stay awake but get a little girl to go back to sleep after she eats.

It's funny the games you play (okay well maybe it's just me) when you are breastfeeding in the middle of the night. I thought I would share a few of them with you. Maybe you can even play too!!

• Jukebox repeat: This is when I sing and sing and sing. I end up singing the same songs over and over and over and well you get the point. I sing so much that my voice ends up dry and cracked at times but she seems to like it. We sing EVERYTHING and ANYTHING I can think of. The good ole' nursery songs like Itsy Bitsy Spider, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Mary had a little lamb, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star are big hits. So are the Jesus songs like Jesus loves me and Jesus loves the little children. We have also thrown in a little Father Abraham and the I'm a Christian song. Throw in some You are my sunshine and This little light of mine and we are rockin'. I'm not always sure on some of the words or the 2nd verses but I give it my best and she doesn't seem to mind. Any other songs I could sing?
• Diaper change Press your luck: This game is where I get a bit lazy and decide I'm going to try to change her diaper without removing the blanket (or onesie) from underneath her. This truly is a game of luck. Sometimes I win and sometimes I'm WHAMMIED (couldn't decide if that should be WHAMMY-ED instead...) and get peed on thus requiring a complete change of clothes and further upsetting Little Bean. It's worth a try once in awhile though for speed.
  
• Strip nursing: (Don't worry, I won't request any of you play this game.) This game is played when my hormone heater decides to turn on at the same time the real furnance in the house is running while holding the hot potato baby and sitting in the glider of the nursery which is conveniently (for lack of any other option) sitting next to the register. HOLY HEAT WAVE! First the socks come off. Those I can do without my hands as I use each foot to get the other foot's sock off. Then because I'm already boob out in a nursing tank or sleeping bra there is nothing else to take off the top half so I resort to removing my pants. Yes... it is quite the site to see. I'm just sitting there nursing or rocking her back to sleep in undies and a tank. NICE! HA!
• Boppy Boggle: Okay so this game you can easily play without removing any of your clothes or getting peed on. Sounds better already huh? You may remember the boppy cover I made for Kenley. It looks like this...Nice and cute right? Well, the letters will drive you nuts at 3am. I sit there and play BOGGLE trying to find as many words as I can to keep my mind busy. It's crazy! It depends on the angle she lays and which side we are eating from but I sit and play and play and play. I can't NOT look for words. I should make the other cover or use the red (back) side of this but it's too addictive.
  

Well with that said, let's play some Boggle. Only rule I use is that the letter has to be touching the next one and that you can't use the same letter 2x.

Here is the latest 9 letter set I have been staring at:
S E B
T A R
D C S

Here are the words I have made (or made this morning at least). Each time I play I find new words or a new area to play from. Oh my, have I lost it?

Star
Car
Tar
Bar
Bat
Best
Sars (the disease)
Sat
Rat
Be
Rest
Cast
Case
Base
Tea
Are
Cat
Tad
Dab
Beat

Any you see?

Clay goes back to work

This was the scene this morning after we got back from our very successful doctor's visit (more on that later.)....
Clay had to go back to work today. His PTO bank is on E for sure. Kenley and I are on our own today and will miss him for sure.

Okay, she looks like me...

Clay and I weren't able to really tell who we thought Kenley looked like. We decided she has my nose but weren't so sure on anything else. My mom swears she looks like me so she sent some "evidence," Well sure enough, my little girl looks like me...

Here is my mom with me when I was born....
Here is Grandma with our little girl...
And here I am with my little girl...
I showed Clay the pictures and sure enough... "That's our girl."

He has been warned

Clay has been warned. The other day during one of our middle of the night feedings he said "I don't think our baby cries enough." What??? Really??

Well he got what he wished for. Kenley has been a little fussy yesterday, last night and today so she has very tired parents. Good thing Grandma Coleman is here tonight to help out. Last night she wanted to eat every 1.5 hours and then wouldn't go back to sleep without being held. Every time we tried to lay her down she would wake back up. We were trying to sleep in our "big girl" bed so maybe that had something to do with it. Who knows.

I told Clay that he jinxed us and it was all his fault. He didn't seem to think that was a valid argument. I'm sure I said this somewhere during the 3am hour when I hadn't been to bed yet or had I? I don't remember..... HA!

So then today he has the nerve to say "Wonder if she has colic".... Okay, if he says one more thing I may kill him or at least kick him in the balls. (Okay I really won't do either of those but I can threaten him for sure.) He has been warned ;o)