Daddy's Home!

Adam left EARLY on Monday morning and didn't get home until Thursday night around 10:00. Reese missed her Daddy and insisted on staying up and waiting on him Thursday night...which is way past her bed time!

MeeMaw and D.D. took turns staying with us at night. And Reese gets lots of attention when they come. MeeMaw and D.D. say that I have spoiled her, but I am pretty sure they played a part too!

PeePaw also came to teach her the ways of the world...and to tell her momma how to raise a baby. Miraculously, the moment she was born he became a know all in the baby raising business:) It is either, "Elena, her feet are cold" or "Elena, she sure does sneeze a lot" or "Elena, it is cold in this house."

Keepin' My Eye on You!

When Reese sleeps during the day she keeps her eyes cracked just to make sure that somebody is still holding her! And, oh my goodness, if she opens her eyes and nobody is holding her there are consequences! I know, I know...we have created a monster!

One Month Ago

One month ago we met our sweet little Reese. In one way I feel like she has been with us forever and in another way I can't believe it has been a month already! I think the lack of sleep in the first two weeks contributes to it feeling like she has been here forever.

At one month old Reese:

• is 21 1/2 inches long




• weighs 9 pounds and 3 ounces...or so we think. I stood on the scale with her and without her so I am not sure how accurate it is.




• nurses every three hours. We will soon be giving her pumped milk from a bottle so that she is used to a bottle when I go back to work. Since our anniversary is next week Adam wanted me to go ahead and give her a bottle because he was planning a surprise trip for Saturday....until he realized that Alabama would be playing Tennessee and Auburn would be playing LSU that day. It is just fine with me if we sit home with our sweet baby for our anniversary because I am not ready to leave her yet.




• Slept best when being swaddled until a few days ago and she now seems to prefer her arms out of the blanket

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  Wakes up whenever the sound machine (the lamb in the top of the picture) is turned off. Adam and I like the sound machine too! Thanks to that little lamb it sounds like rain on a tin roof at our house every night!



• The first week or two she slept in her bouncy seat because she woke up everytime we layed her still in her craddle. Then she slept best swinging in her swing... due to the current cost of batteries we felt it would be best to not allow her to swing ALL night long in the swing. So she is now sleeping in the craddle with her arms slung out to the sides.

• Goes to sleep any time she is in the car riding.

• Only cries when she is hungry or has a wet diaper...and if we lay her down for a nap before she is asleep. But after her 3 a.m. feeding she gets herself back to sleep...so I don't understand. I think she knows that during the day I am trying to get things done around the house and doesn't like it!
  
  


• Loves to be cuddled. Which is currently my full time job:)



• until last week she got up every two hours during the night. Thank goodness she is now sleeping from about 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.!!
  


• sleeps in zipper sleepers because they make late night diaper changes SO much easier than having to button a onezie in the dark while half asleep!



• blows these sweet little bubbles when she naps



• tries to hold her head up when she is being held on someone's shoulder so we have to hold her down like this




• loves to lay in our lap like this when awake




• doesn't love or hate getting a bath although in this picture she looks a little sad
  



• will only listen to a story for a few seconds and then isn't all that impressed...maybe it is my reading skills:)

Lazy Saturday

On Saturday morning Adam got up and took Reese to her room to change her diaper...and she came out with this on... She hates it can't you tell? Last weekend when she had on her Auburn outfit she never made a face like this!

And these shoes Daddy...well they are WAY to big right now!

D.D. got the outfit for her so I guess I am obligated to let her wear it at least once.

They had to take a little nap to prepare for the Alabama game coming on so late

And my heart just melts when she holds his finger like this...

On Friday night Adam went to her room to change her diaper and after several minutes I ask if he needed any help...

"No, we are just playing dress up." Which is cause for concern in my opinion. She came out in these

They are 6-9 month old shoes! When she was in her carseat all you could see were the shoes

Friday night (actually Saturday morning) when she woke up at 3 a.m. Adam told her that if she would sleep until 8 he would buy her a pony:) hahah! She woke up at 6 and ruined any chances of getting that pony!

Is it possible?/Where did she come from?

Do you think it is possible that they come here spoiled? She is only three weeks old and this is what she does when I try to put her down... Is she spoiled already? And if you are wondering...yes, when she cries like this I absolutely pick her up!

We also question where she came from? HAHA. She doesn't seem to look like anybody at this point! On the left is my newborn picture and on the right is Adam's.

Since Reese Arrived

I have learned so much since Reese joined us three weeks ago!

I have learned that...

Nothing can prepare you for becoming a parent. I thought since I had witnessed my nieces and nephews growing up I was a step ahead...but oh no! There is no amount of babysitting that can prepare one for the task of motherhood!

It is all about her! It is no longer about Adam and I. For several days after she was born I felt like Adam and I had not even seen each other. We were both at home, but a newborn requires ALL of your attention. Of course when we got the chance to talk the conversation was all about baby stuff:) Which lead me to wonder...what did we do before her?

The house and its level of cleaniness doesn't even rate on the scale of importance anymore. My days are spent feeding her, washing her clothes, and opening new packs of diapers and wipes. Adam was sweet enough to clean while I was gone on Saturday. I guess it had gotten bad enough that he decided something must be done:)

That love at first sight doesn't exist until seeing your baby for the first time.

That there are a lot of material things I would be willing to go without just to stay home with her instead of going back to work.

That I can sit home and stare at her all day and be completely happy.

But mostly I have learned that life doesn't really begin until you get to see the love of your life and your new baby doing this...

To see her newborn pictures go to this website

http://www.blissphotographystudios.com/

Go to the Clients link.

Enter my email elena.robertson@hotmail.com and the password is robertson1

Weekend Fun

We had a great weekend and it got even better when she slept for 5 straight hours last night! Nothing gets a new mommy and daddy excited like more than two hours of sleep at the time! Friday night D.D. and Big Daddy took us out to eat. This is what the cupcake wore... I really have to get better with my pictures, but Adam is usually rushing me out the door so this was the best I could do. Dinner and a little shopping at Target was great while it lasted...BUT... she slept the entire time we were gone and then did not sleep good Friday night:(

On Saturday we went to LaRae's for lunch, and some much needed time to catch up with the girls. Of course, we were so busy talking that we forgot to get a group picture. I did get a few of Reese and Anna Kate.

Anna Kate was so quick with her hugs that we couldn't get a good picture.

I see trouble in LaRae's future if they ever decide to give Anna Kate a sibling!

After we got home Reese couldn't handle the fun any longer and crashed in her bouncy seat. It was the perfect time for a nap because her daddy acted out a little bit when Alabama got beat.

Sunday was Reese's first trip to church. Our church was having a county wide service at the football field so we decided we would go to D.D. and Big Daddy's to church. This was the best picture that I got and she doesn't even have on her headband! Adam set the alarm one hour before we needed to leave so I didn't get her picture in her dress before we left home.