11.9.11

Happy 6 weeks to Alice!  She survived.  Rex survived. I survived.  Greg survived.  Though we have all learned a few things along the way.

First, Alice.  She's learned to nurse quite well and efficiently, which is great because Rex ate every 2 hours for 45 minutes.  All I did was nurse that kid.  But not Alice.  She latches like a champ and gets right to business.  She's also learning to smile, which is just the sweetest thing.  Gives her more of a personality and makes it a little less aggrivating when she cries.  She's also pretty good at holding up her head and likes to look around over my shoulder--her favorite position to be held in I'd have to say.  She still has all her crazy hair and I've given up on trying to make it stay down until it's a bit longer.  Her eyes aren't set on a color yet.  Just today Greg said they looked purple--maybe she's a witch.  She's getting pretty big too.  She cried and screwamed this morning when I put the little outfit she wore on her first day on her today--it's going in the too small box after I wash all the baby puke off it.  I even had to moved the straps on her car seat up this week.  People still comment on how tiny she is, but compared to Rex at this age (he was still in some premie clothes at 6 weeks), she's a giant.  But we like her and have decided after much thought to keep her around a while.

The outfit I wore home from the hospital.

See? Almost smiling.

Rex.  He's been really good with Alice.  He's learned to say, "Baby crying again."  When this happens and we have to go see what's wrong with Baby, Rex usually beats me and I find him holding her pacifier in her month.  It's pretty cute and so far hasn't caused any damage.  We haven't had to deal with too many jealousy issues, though I have had more requests from Rex to be held and on occasion he tells me not to feed the baby.  Now he just says, "Feed Baby again?"  I'd give Rex a 9 in his adjustment to the new baby.  Now if we could just get him to poop in the potty.

Obvioulsy Rex had to get in on the picture taking action

"Mom, take picture Rexy with glasses"

Me.  I've learned to be a little less stressed.  I've learned that I can adjust Alice's feeding schedule to mostly meet my needs.  I've learned that I really do need a nap every day.  I just do.  To be the type of person and mom I want to be, I need a nap/break with my eyes closed.  On the days that I don't get to take a few minutes to myself and just relax, Rex and I get in big fights--everything he does bothers me, he gets really crazy and starts jumping all over every thing, and we just can't wait for Dad to get home.  And I accept that part of me.  Today I took a 2 hour nap while cuddling with Alice.  It was lovely.

Greg.  Does not feel like sharing his learning experiences with my limited blog audience, though I'm sure he's learned plenty.  He and Rex are quite the little buddies now.  Rex pretty much just follows Greg around all night long.  Today they went out with their flashlights to look for maple trees and the arrows that Greg shot into the back field.  It's pretty cute.