Life with a newborn

Our little Jordyn is almost 5 weeks. She is getting close to the end of the newborn stage. It is really sad, but also really exciting. All she has been doing is sleeping. She is starting to wake up... kind of.....

I have gotten extremely lucky with my newborns so far. They are excellent night sleepers. I thought Madison was good, but Jordyn is a champ. She wakes up once between 3 and 4 and then gets up at 7 to start our day. Madi didn't think she had to nurse any more then Jordyn, but Madi had a serious blowout problem that would wake her and everybody else up in the whole house. Jordyn doesn't seem to have that problem. However, Jordyn does cry out and grunt a lot! I have to set a rule to wait two minutes with consistent crying because I tend to want to get up the second she cries out. Then she just ends up falling asleep within a couple of seconds of nursing.

When Jordyn was just a few days old, Camille and I took a few newborn snaps of her. Usually babies are asleep during these, Jordyn still has hardly been awake as along as she was while we were trying to take these pictures. She does not like to be messed with while she is dreaming. Oh well... we got a few cute shots of her. Here are some of my favorite!

Madison is also adjusting, slowly but surely. She loves baby Jordyn and after asking for water, the very next thing she checks for every morning is baby Jordyn. "Hiii Jordyn", is basically what Jordyn and I hear all day. Madi has gotten into a "mine" phase. All the blankets, toys, binkies, and car seats are hers. Poor girl.