Things are going pretty good lately, but not as awesome as they were a few weeks ago. Aila is still an amazing baby. We feel very lucky that she has such a laid-back personality- so completely different than Ashlan, lol! It's Ashlan that we're having trouble with...just her attitude, but I suppose that is to be expected. This just started the past week. It seems the more time I spend with her, the more she's acting out...so I'm not sure what the deal is there!! Hopefully this stage passes soon, because she was so wonderful for the past few weeks.
I've been taking the girls to play places and been having play dates for Ashlan a few times a week. We also started her swim lessons this week and they're a half hour Monday through Thursday so maybe we're trying to do too much. I just thought it'd be a good distraction for her. But for example, on Tuesday we (Ashlan and I) got our hair cut, had gymnastics and swim lessons, on Wednesday we went to the Chick-fil-A play place to let her play and then swim lessons, and on Thursday we had a play date and swim lessons, so maybe I'm just overbooking her. And all this with a newborn- I'm exhausted just from that, let alone all the laundry that comes with a newborn, and diaper laundry...never mind cleaning the house, lol. Ashlan does look exhausted, so maybe we just need a few days in a row of early bedtimes especially since she hasn't taken a real nap since she turned three, just maybe a catnap in the car, etc. Swim lessons are next week also, but then they're over, thankfully. It just seems like we've been going non-stop lately.
Swim lessons are going well though. She does seem like she's a little advanced for the three and four-year-old class though. They are just working on things for introduction to swimming like dunking your head underwater, blowing bubbles, jumping in the pool into someone's arms, and dog paddling and kicking but in someone's arms, and she can do all of those by herself and then some. She is learning to float though but other than that, I think she's learned more with just Dan and me teaching her! And she can touch the bottom of both our pool and the swim lesson pool in the shallow end, lol.
Today just Ashlan and I went to a place called Arts Ignited to paint pottery. We had a great time there, but she did have a meltdown on the way out because she didn't want to leave, lol. Pics of that are below...
Aila is doing great though! She's a month old already! She is smiling at us and cooing a lot more now. She has such a goofy, bubbly smile...you can't help but smile when she does it to you. She is such an angel baby, I hope that continues! She still goes down about 10pm or so, I wake her around 3am to eat, and she will fall right back to sleep until 6am or so. So awesome for a newborn! Ashlan was up every two to three hours to eat, and she always woke me up, lol. I'm hoping to stop the middle of the night feedings soon but her pediatrician said she should not go longer than 5 hours between feedings for now because newborns blood sugar can drop too low, but I really think she'd let me sleep 6-7 hours if I let her. Aila is about 10lbs at one month, when Ashlan was about 11lbs at this point. So she may not be as "solid" as Ashlan, but she seems to be just as tall. We'll find out in a month what her height and weight is for comparison with Ashlan though when we go to get her first vaccinations. Ashlan is still a great big sister. She still always wants to hold and kiss her, and will try to entertain Aila if she gets fussy. You can tell she really loves her. <3
We had some newborn pics done for Aila and included the whole family on some too. Click on the link below to see. Enjoy! http://bcjphotography.smugmug.com/Friends/B/
I've been taking the girls to play places and been having play dates for Ashlan a few times a week. We also started her swim lessons this week and they're a half hour Monday through Thursday so maybe we're trying to do too much. I just thought it'd be a good distraction for her. But for example, on Tuesday we (Ashlan and I) got our hair cut, had gymnastics and swim lessons, on Wednesday we went to the Chick-fil-A play place to let her play and then swim lessons, and on Thursday we had a play date and swim lessons, so maybe I'm just overbooking her. And all this with a newborn- I'm exhausted just from that, let alone all the laundry that comes with a newborn, and diaper laundry...never mind cleaning the house, lol. Ashlan does look exhausted, so maybe we just need a few days in a row of early bedtimes especially since she hasn't taken a real nap since she turned three, just maybe a catnap in the car, etc. Swim lessons are next week also, but then they're over, thankfully. It just seems like we've been going non-stop lately.
Swim lessons are going well though. She does seem like she's a little advanced for the three and four-year-old class though. They are just working on things for introduction to swimming like dunking your head underwater, blowing bubbles, jumping in the pool into someone's arms, and dog paddling and kicking but in someone's arms, and she can do all of those by herself and then some. She is learning to float though but other than that, I think she's learned more with just Dan and me teaching her! And she can touch the bottom of both our pool and the swim lesson pool in the shallow end, lol.
Today just Ashlan and I went to a place called Arts Ignited to paint pottery. We had a great time there, but she did have a meltdown on the way out because she didn't want to leave, lol. Pics of that are below...
Aila is doing great though! She's a month old already! She is smiling at us and cooing a lot more now. She has such a goofy, bubbly smile...you can't help but smile when she does it to you. She is such an angel baby, I hope that continues! She still goes down about 10pm or so, I wake her around 3am to eat, and she will fall right back to sleep until 6am or so. So awesome for a newborn! Ashlan was up every two to three hours to eat, and she always woke me up, lol. I'm hoping to stop the middle of the night feedings soon but her pediatrician said she should not go longer than 5 hours between feedings for now because newborns blood sugar can drop too low, but I really think she'd let me sleep 6-7 hours if I let her. Aila is about 10lbs at one month, when Ashlan was about 11lbs at this point. So she may not be as "solid" as Ashlan, but she seems to be just as tall. We'll find out in a month what her height and weight is for comparison with Ashlan though when we go to get her first vaccinations. Ashlan is still a great big sister. She still always wants to hold and kiss her, and will try to entertain Aila if she gets fussy. You can tell she really loves her. <3
We had some newborn pics done for Aila and included the whole family on some too. Click on the link below to see. Enjoy! http://bcjphotography.smugmug.com/Friends/B/
Loving the swing!
She looks so tiny on Dan!
In this pic she looks *exactly* like Ashlan when she was that age.
Love this pic!!
Helping me sort the cloth wipes- my big helper! She gets so mad when I do them and don't ask her if she wants to help, lol.
Happy one month baby girl!
There's just something about a sleeping baby. :)
Ashlan's swim lessons.
One of Aila's smiles- though I caught it going down, lol. It's much bigger than this!
This is what she does during Ashlan's swim lessons, lol.
:)
Ashlan passed out before swim lessons...and slept right through Aila's car screaming (she was hungry, I guess, though she ate before we left!). :(
At Arts Ignited. She picked Piglet to paint.
I need to get our bouncy seat out, so much easier to move around the house when we're busy doing something.
ReplyDeleteI'm jealous of your good sleeper. My first son was a horrible sleeper. And this one seems to think it's party time at night. He did a little better last night, thankfully, but I'm still exhausted. I'm hoping to get some nap time tomorrow for mother's day. lol