Bad, bad blogger.

Work stinks, it leaves no time for blogging.

-Savannah has a cold and so do I. Fortunately I am able to blow my nose, she has to settle for me using the aspirator (or snucking the snot as I usually refer to it). She is fine during the day and has the cough and congestion at night, I am the exact opposite - go figure.

-Holy crap, formula is expensive. A friend and I went to lunch last week and ran into Publix while we were out, she needed formula and I needed who knows what. She purchased 2 canisters totaling $30, when I inquired as to how long that lasts -- a day and a half!! She does have twins but DANG.

-After about 10 days, her sleeping returned to somewhat normal. I'm chalking it up to a growth spurt. She's up about every 4 hours now but is just hungry, drinks a bottle or nurses and goes right back down. Breastmilk works through the system a little quicker so it doesn't leave her full as long. But like I told someone today, I'd rather deal with less sleep than less money.

-My baby girl is 3 months old! I can barely believe it's been that long since she stole our hearts.

So that's the short & sweet of what's going on, I promise a real post soon - most likely after this weekend when Savannah finally gets to meet her Aunt & Uncle and cousin!

From SGN - 3rd Month

From SGN - 4th month

VIDEO! She starts squealing with delight about 20 seconds in, so cute! The video is sideways because we always remember too late that you can't turn video like you can a picture.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v479/UFBrooke/Savannah%20Grace/?action=view¤t=MVI_1994.flv

12 weeks

Savannah is 12 weeks old today!

And, she slept through the night last night...oh wait, *I* slept through the night thanks to James. Our good little 4 1/2 to 5 hour stretch sleeper has vanished and has been replaced by a baby that sleeps for maybe 2 hours at a time. This has been going on almost a week now, the first day I was exhausted but by the 3rd day I learned to get by on a nights worth of 3 or 4 90 minute naps. I know this sounds like James isn't doing anything except sleeping but that's not true, a lot of times I just don't even bother waking him up. I can hear her crying with or without the monitor so even if he is tending to her I am awake, I just can't block it out.

I don't know why her sleep pattern is all out of whack but I'm reading everything I can to try to fix the problem. I'm assuming that she isn't adjusting well to all the change in her life, she went from being with me all day, every day for 10 weeks to only being with me in the evenings and on weekends. It breaks my heart to think that the adjustment hasn't been easy on her either. She's also done with being swaddled, little Houdini can break out of what we think are our tightest swaddles ever in no time flat. So that might be contributing to the problem, but we did get 5 more weeks out of swaddling than all the books say we should so we can't complain.

Other than her bad sleeping as of late she seems to be right on track developmentally, at least according to the various websites and e-mail newsletters I receive. She has to started to put her hands in her mouth and try to suck on them but she isn't quite fascinated with them yet but she knows they are there and she can hold her head up on her own about 98% of the time. She coos, 'talks' snd smiles, all of which melt your heart and force you to shower her with kisses, and loves to kick and play on her changing table and activity gym mat. We think we she laughed Monday morning but she hasn't done it since so we don't have confirmation.

work...

I made it through my first week and I can say with certainty that I absolutely hate being back at work, I would much rather be home snuggling with my baby girl.

Last Tuesday was a very sad day, actually the whole weekend before was kind of sad because I knew what was coming at the end of it. Monday night while we were getting Savannah ready for bed I couldn't stop crying because I kept thinking that when she woke up the dreaded day would have arrived. I didn't even attempt make-up on Tuesday, while red, puffy eyes are not exactly becoming, raccoon eyes are worse.

I had to have James drop her off because I knew that I wouldn't be able to, it was hard enough for me to even leave the house. I cried all the way to work and most of the day, just when I'd get to a point where I was ok someone would come by and ask me how I was doing which started the tears all over again. I called to check on her several times and found out that she slept most of the day and was content.

As soon as I got home and had her in my arms the tears started all over again, I know it sounds silly to cry when I was finally with her, but I was just so happy to see her.

Unfortunately, it hasn't gotten any easier. Regardless of who is watching her (my mom, James' mom or the in-home daycare provider) I have cried every morning and sporadically at work throughout the day. Fortunately I have a 'cry buddy' at work, another new mom came back to work the same day as me so we're getting through it together. It's been nice e-mailing and talking with her knowing that I'm not the only that's having a really hard time adjusting. Someone asked me today if I thought I had post-partum depression - no, I just miss my baby.

And, to end this post with something positive - new pictures!

From savannah grace

From savannah grace

Uh oh...

Fair warning, the picture below is a little gross but the story is really funny!

A couple Saturdays ago Savannah ended up having a very sleepy day and when I say that I mean she literally slept ALL day except to nurse a few times. That morning, before her great slumber began, James was holding her and got spit up on a few times. Clearly he wasn't quite broken in yet because each time he would hand her over to me and then go wash his shirt out because he couldn't stand the smell.

Fast forward to Monday. I had just finished nursing Savannah and asked James to take her so I could start dinner, as I handed her over I told him that she hadn't had a good poopy diaper yet so it was probably coming. James sat down on the couch with her and she started to doze off, shortly thereafter she started filling her diaper. After a couple minutes we figured she was done and safe to change her without fear of getting pooped on. Little did James know...

From savannah grace

She's going to love that picture when we show it to her first potentional boyfriend (when she's 30).

I think it goes without saying that spit-up doesn't seem so bad now!

Game Day!

Savannah slept through most of her first and second Gator games but she was well outfitted for the event! Maybe we can teach her the chomp by next season.

From savannah grace

Road Trip

Savannah went on her first road trip last weekend to see Gammy & Papa and the rest of James' family in Georgia and she did FABULOUS in the car. I had set my expectations very low and told myself it was going to be the worst drive ever so that I would be pleasantly surprised if it went even marginally better than disastrous. The drive is about 3 1/2 hours and she slept pretty much the entire drive and when she was awake she was quiet and content 95% of the time.


We had a great, very relaxing time and ate WAY too much food as usual, I knew we were in trouble when I rounded the corner into the kitchen and saw pound cake, chocolate chip cookies and raspberry pastries...didn't take long to dip into each of those treats. And then of course we can't forget the meals that Gammy cooked made us, it's probably a good thing we don't live closer as we'd gain about 20 lbs. each just because we can't resist going back for seconds or thirds!

We didn't take our camera out all weekend so I don't have any pictures but I know there were definitely plenty taken. (Hint, hint Gammy.)

Here are some other random pictures from the past week...

From savannah grace

From savannah grace

From savannah grace

From savannah grace