I love life right now!

I cannot emphasize enough how much I am loving life right now! I love spending every moment of my day with Cailin! we both wait all day for Dan to come home from work then our family is complete!

She is the best baby anyone could ask for. She is rarely fussy, she eats well, and she is consistently sleeping 5-5.5 hour stretches at night followed by 2, 2-3 hour stretches in the am. She behaves well in stores and restaurants when she is awake and much of the time she falls asleep in the car ride to where we are going. Napping can be odd because she usually sleeps in the am then takes an afternoon nap then a little snooze in the late afternoon. The exact timing is a bit difficult and sometimes she has a bit of trouble falling asleep for them.

Night time is her only fussy time and most times its not that bad. She cries a little when you are getting her ready for bed after her bath and while she is settling int sleep. I recently discovered "the happiest baby on the block" dvd and it is great! I learned some new tricks to make her fall asleep and be soothed and it works great!

We had a 3 day bad stretch when she had some serious gas. She was so gassy and was in some pain and that was the first time she was really fussy and wasn't easily soothed. I felt so bad I called her pediatrician. She recommended "gripe water" and we tried that and it does work. Once the gas pains subsided she was so tired! :( I felt terrible for my little sweetheart!


Dan and I are spending the weekend together as our anniversary is on Monday! ONE YEAR? wow. Time flies (unless you are pregnant, then it feels like forever!) I look back now and can barely remember life without Cailin. Pregnancy is tough, even if you have an uncomplicated one. It is so physically taxing! With that being said, it is so worth it in the end. I am so happy to have a smart, beautiful, baby girl and cannot wait to have more kids in the future. The somewhat distant future, but nonetheless, in the future.

We are lucky that Dan's Aunt paid for a night at the John Carver Inn, the hotel where we spend the weekend of our wedding. It will be so nice to enjoy each other while Cailin spends time with Dan's parents! We haven't had much time alone together since she was born and I can't wait to spend some quality time with my main squeeze! We are really excited for this vacation!


On another note, I have started some weening since I will be going back to work in September. No, I am not giving up on breast feeding but it would be a bit of a shock to both my body and to Cailin to suddenly stop when that time comes. I am replacing one day feeding with formula for now. Next week I will have to do another up until I am at the point where she isn't BF'ing during the times I would be at work. I know I can pump, but my time to do so will be limited during work and there is always the possibility that I might not have the chance and I do not want to risk leakage. I need to be honest and say that initially I hated breast feeding and even contemplated giving up on it several times, then sometime when she was 3 weeks old I began loving it! I really hate to have to give some of it up but it is not possible for me to feed her during the day when I return to work. I still plan on breast feeding her at night and all her other feedings. I will have to remain consistent with her daytime feedings on the weekends tho...


I am looking into getting our family photos taken in the fal. Cailin will be 4-5 months old and I think it will be nice and we can use the photos for our Christmas cards! It will be so cute!