funny faces

talking with mommy.

snoozing.

post-nursing bliss.

(and yes, tragically, her baby acne has arrived in full force. i still think she's pretty cute, though.)

poor daddy

some nights he arrives home to a very fussy gussy.

he's very good at calming her down, though. tonight, after things got quiet, i overheard him encouraging her to enter a twelve-step program for babies who refuse to burp.

a day in the life

napping

and playing.

there was a fair amount of eating, too, but it's awful hard to reach the camera when she's latched on.

(and yes, those are two different pairs of pants. did i forget to mention pooping?)

milestones

beatrix is two weeks old today! today is also our first day on our own with no help. no daddy, no mems, just mama and bebe all day long. bebe decided to test me right out of the gate. not three minutes after daddy left for work, she pooped all over our bed. i handled the immediate need to do two loads of laundry (keep in mind that we are on the third floor and the washer and dryer are in the basement) with admirable aplomb, if i do say so myself. in fact, by 1 pm, i had done the laundry, remade the bed, eaten two meals and a snack, fed the baby three times, gotten her down for two naps, put together half of the birth announcements, and showered and shaved my legs. not bad for my first day solo, at least in my humble opinion.

bebe, however, remains skeptical.

nose and hands

when we had our 18-week ultrasound to check that the baby was developing properly, i looked at the photos and thought to myself, "that baby is a girl." we had told the tech that we didn't want to know the baby's sex, so we didn't end up with any pictures that showed the goods. nope, i was sure that my baby was a girl based on its cute little upturned nose:

now, that's ridiculous. not only was the ultrasound photo basically an image of a skull, boys are just as likely as girls to have cute little upturned noses. and while i did then spend most of the remainder of my pregnancy thinking the baby was a boy, i am happy to report that my daughter does, in fact, have a cute little upturned nose.


i also think it's worth mentioning that the hand you see in the ultrasound picture, up by the baby's face? yeah, she came out like that, with her hand up by her face. and now, when we swaddle her, we have to leave that hand free or she totally freaks out.

speaking of hands, bebe's hands are always in motion. throughout the last couple months of my pregnancy, i could feel them fluttering around by the baby's head. i wondered what it was doing, and now i know:






talking with her hands. wonder where she got that from?

tummy time

a busy day

playtime,

and a visitor,

and then a nice, long nap.

great nana

today, beatrix met her great-grandmother. four generations of mothers and daughters in one room = amazing.


nana has got the moves. she laid a fussy bebe belly down in her lap and it was like magic. if i hadn't been in the room the whole time, i would have thought she'd shot my baby girl with a sedative.


alas, nana had to go home. but luckily bebe marie can also be calmed by her mama:

snoozie kabloozie.

ladies who lunch

today bebe went out for her first ladies' lunch (with her mommy and mems).

she was unimpressed with california pizza kitchen.



the trip to the mall sure did wear her out, though. afterwards she took a long snooze with teed.

when she sleeps she makes noises like a baby bird.

stripey lady

chubby pudding

at the pediatrician's today, we were discussing my concerns about whether or not she eats for long enough at each feeding. it's so hard to tell, when you're a new breastfeeding mom, if your baby is getting everything she needs. "well," he said, "the proof is in the pudding."

and my pudding weighed in at NINE POUNDS today! she is already over her birth weight, and has gained eleven ounces since she was last weighed on friday.

i am no longer concerned.

houston,

we have a belly button.

zzzzzzz

napping, napping, napping.

i've already spent hours staring at her feet.

i'm pretty sure

this is what they mean by 'milk drunk.'

hard at work

in search of the elusive milk. (which, thankfully, came in later that night.)

home!

after her first bath

july 14, 2008. 9:38 pm.