At our family reunion this past weekend (more on that in another post), Anna got to see her cousin Addison. Here are a couple of cute pictures:

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I’ve been baking and freezing muffins for a big breakfast at our family reunion this weekend. I made six dozen—two dozen each of three different kinds. Here are the recipes. (more…)

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I’ve been reading Madeline
To my daughter all the time.
I think it has affected me,
For now I write in rhyme, you see.

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I love being a new mommy,
But sometimes I am a zombie.
When I’m tired and cannot nap,
I could use a little zap.
So in order to get by,
I mix up a cup of chai.
I hate coffee, don’t you see,
So I must rely on tea.
Oh, the sugar! The caffeine!
Energy before unseen!
Not enough to harm my baby,
But enough to wake me maybe.

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As I mentioned before, Anna has to be swaddled to sleep. The problem is she can eventually wriggle her arms out, and then we have to go in there and re-wrap her for her to fall back asleep soundly. I’ve been pressing David for several weeks to get a swaddling blanket. I finally insisted enough, and he sweetly stopped by Babies ‘R’ Us after work yesterday and picked one up.

It basically goes something like this:

• Insert bottom half of baby into sack.
• Wrap flaps around top half of baby and secure in place with velcro.

The reviews were promising—story after story of people whose babies would wriggle out of even the tightest swaddle and wake themselves several times during the night, just like Anna, but after they started using this blanket, they started sleeping through the night! Aha! This is the answer!

Last night was David’s night to check on her. At 3:30 he had gotten up twice with her. She had come out of the blanket. I mean completely out—legs and all.

How the heck?!?

I just hope this skill comes in handy someday. Maybe she’ll make us a lot of money in the circus.

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We apparently have a family of bluebirds in the vicinity. This may not seem like a big deal, but we don’t see them very much where we live. And I’ve never seen a baby one. It was white and brown speckled; it didn’t look anything like an adult. It was perched on the fence fluttering its wings with its little mouth open, waiting for the daddy to bring it food. It was so sweet! The mama was flying around too, but we didn’t see her as much. Thank you, David, for taking these pics!

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It’s the 23rd again—Anna is 2 months old today! I took her to get weighed, and she’s 10 pounds 4 ounces and doing quite well. She smiles a lot, she loves it when we talk to her, she likes her play mat and bouncy seat, she holds her head up well, she likes to lie on her back on our bed and kick her legs and stare at the ceiling fan, and she takes really good naps! And while it’s a little sad that she’s growing up so fast, she just gets more and more fun the older she gets.

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My mom and I took Anna down to Little Rock today to meet my cousin’s baby, Eden Hollis. So Anna and Eden are… third cousins? First cousins twice removed? Anyone know? Anyway, Eden is only three weeks old and she came five weeks early, so she is still very tiny! (And very sleepy, apparently!)

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This is the book that changed my life. Ok, maybe that’s a little dramatic. But as a sleep-deprived new mom, it sure felt like it at the time.

The book to which I am referring is The 90-Minute Baby Sleep Program by Dr. Polly Moore. I linked to this book in an earlier post, in which I expressed my amazement at the results of my trial run of the program after simply hearing about it and before even reading the book. It went so well I decided to buy the book to find out more. (more…)

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Well, my first Mothers Day would have been special enough just enjoying the blessing of Anna, but there were a few additional “perks” that made it extra-special. (more…)

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