Brindle Life.: December 2012

Wren,
you are a month old. this past month has been just the coolest thing ever. i went into the hospital nervous. i never knew how i would have enough love for two kids or how people managed to love the second child as much as the first. well, now i know. you are everything i ever wanted and i love you with my whole heart. it's like i have a separate heart for each of you and am able to fully love you both. i feel so incredibly blessed to have two beautiful, happy, healthy babies. you had me wrapped around your little finger from the moment i saw you and this last month has just made all those feelings even more real. you are just perfect. you are feeding every two-three hours and are growing like a weed. i love that. you are already my best friend and you don't even know it. although, i think you do!!! ;) i'm much more chill with you. i'm just soaking all these good little things in that i know will be gone in a blink of an eye. for some reason, i don't care about no sleep. i just want to be with you.

3 day stats
weight: 7lbs 2oz= 31% (you only dropped 2 oz.)

length: 20"= 61%

head circumference: 13.25inches= 30%

clothes size: newborn

size newborn diapers

two week stats
weight: 8lbs 3 oz= 46%
length: 21"= 78%
head circumference: 14.5 inches= 55%
clothes size: newborn and 0-3months
size newborn diapers

remember the cooing
how red you got for your first bath
just watching you under the heat lamp after the bath
how you loved getting your hair washed for the first time
how dark and full of hair your head was
how you just took to nursing like you knew what you were doing
how you pushed off my rib one last time
how you choked in the hospital, it really scared me
how your fingernails curved over the tip of your fingers. i was scared they were going to always be like that (now wonder it felt like you were scratching my cervix the entire time
your eyelashes were so blonde
your weepy right eye
you like the swing
your 3rd night you only woke once
the 2nd night home you woke a lot. i think you were cold :( sorry
changing your diaper and having to do it three times in a row
you smiling and laughing in your sleep
how your skin peeled
how i don't ever want to put you down
your umbilical cord came off early on the 16th and it just wept and i called the nurses line at like 11pm. i was so worried you were gonna have a messed up belly button. the nurse said, she won't bleed out. i was like what the heck. why would you say that? i was worried all night. you were fine and so was your belly button
how sad your face looks when i put the pacie in your mouth and when you want to nurse
how fuzzy your hair gets after a bath
how you hate being swaddled
the hair on your ears and back
remembering seedy looking diapers
how you have slight reflux. you kind of gag sometimes
how you fight your sleep
how you aren't that attached to your pacie
your sad face when you aren't finished eating and i pull you off to burp
your hair started falling out at 1 month
you got sick and were congested for like 6 weeks i felt so bad for you. we did saline rinses and suction. you hated it but it helped. it just took forever to go away. in the meantime you didn't sleep well because you couldn't breathe. which means, we didn't sleep well :)

you are such a little miracle. although, we weren't planning for you, you have a purpose here and at a month old you are already fulfilling it. i love you to the moon and back.

two days old.

first bath at home. november 7, 2013 9:02 p.m.

three days old.

four days old. november 9th.

5 days old.

7 days old.

8 days old.

16 days old.
this is the sash from my wedding dress and the necklace your papa made for my wedding day. this picture was the front of your announcement.