The "Kids"

The "kids" = one sleepy baby and two bichons


Jason reading to Halyn the other night. I especially love reading her the Erik Carle books. They are so great for infants with all the colors and patterns. Heinz gathers around for story time too. :)

Bath Time

Ever since Bambina's umbilical cord has fallen off, we have been able to give her a bath in her pink bath chair in the tub. She likes this SO much better than the sponge baths we were giving her before. I think she got too cold and it made her mad. She is so cute in the bath now! We give her about 3 baths a week at night before bed. We aim to get her in bed around 10:30 pm each night. Usually she wakes up around 2:30- 3am to eat.... but last night.....she slept for over 6 hrs straight!! I woke up a little panicked at 4:45am when Jason's alarm went off for work. She may be going through a growth spurt and sleeping more. Tomorrow she will be 6 weeks old. In the past week she has taken a liking to her swing. She has been swinging in the kitchen by the table when we eat and is pretty happy there. Her favorite place to sit is in her pink butterfly bouncer that we keep upstairs in our room. She loves being cuddled and holding hands. She is almost out of all of her newborn clothes and now wearing size 0-3. Here are some pictures and a video from a bath last week:

Rattle

Halyn is now 5 1/2 weeks old. I'm guessing she weighs at least 10 lbs by now. (At her 4 week appt she was 9 lbs 14 oz.) She has been doing really good at night. A few nights ago she slept 4 hours straight and last night she slept 4 1/2 hours straight. The older she gets, the more capable she is of sleeping a little longer without waking up to eat. I had no idea that "sleeping through the night" for a baby 3 months and older was 5 hours. If you would have asked me a few months ago if 5 hours was a lot of sleep I would have said definitely NOT but now it sounds amazing! I actually enjoy being up with her at night and in the early hours of the morning when her little eyes are as wide as can be just looking around. Today we went to our library for the first time with Halyn and checked out several picture books and a few baby einsteins dvds. She loves to be read to at night.

We were playing with Halyn before bed the other night and I got out one of her rattles for the first time. She held onto it with a pretty tight grip. Here is a video from September 9, 2011:



This is a closer picture of the outfit she had on. "If I don't sleep, nobody sleeps" New York City. So funny and so true!! (Thanks Christine!!)

Videos from end of August

First Walk

We put Halyn in her stroller for the first time and took a lap around the neighborhood last Saturday when she was about 3 1/2 weeks old. She looks so tiny in that big stroller!


Its amazing how much she has changed in just a month. She loves holding your hand and she smiles a lot. She is gaining more head control and when on her tummy she can turn her head side to side. The past week she has been reaching her hands out to touch our faces and grab onto my hair. She is the sweetest little thing. Her 4 week doctor's appointment was Tuesday. She now weighs 9 lbs 14 oz and is 22 inches long. She has started to make her own little schedule and is doing really well sleeping through the night. She is such a great little baby!