Here's a quick rundown of April...
- I held and enjoyed my sweet newborn, a lot.
- My mom was here until the 10th.
- We celebrated Easter.
- The 9-13 was Spring Break. Spring Break was a little hard because my mom left and Jason went back to work, so I was on my own for the 1st time with 2 kiddos.
- I took Taygen to the Dr. for her 2 week checkup. She was 5 lbs. 13 oz. I took her in again on the 13th and she was exactly 6 lbs. The Dr. was a bit concerned about her weight. Sometime around 2 weeks old, I decided to start bottle-feeding Taygen. I could go into great detail about the emotional stress and guilt and frustration, but I won't. For some reason, I can't breastfeed. I've tried both times and just can't make it work, despite my best efforts. I was determined this time around to not let it stress me out. So, when I realized she wasn't getting enough to eat, that was it. We went straight to the bottle and she started eating like a champ and putting on weight. Whew, and that was that. It may be that 10-20 years down the road, she'll have some crazy problem, health or otherwise, and I will look back and blame the decision to bottle-feed. Oh well, I'll deal with it then. :)
- Allary started soccer, which I will give it's own post, later.
- Jason was in Anaheim for work the 22-28. He was supposed to come home in-between trips, but ended up flying from there straight to the next show in Reno until May 6th. This was an extremely challenging and exhausting time for me. We survived. We survived mostly because it was about this time that Taygen started sleeping 6-7 hours at night. Yay!
- I had an EKG on the 23rd, which gave us nothing but great news. My heart was completely healthy! Awesome.
She had (and still has) the hugest eyes. I may have to dedicate an entire post just to those eyes.
3 weeks old.
I really wanted to make these cute little matching "Big Sister" and "Little Sister" T-shirts with their handprints on them. It was a cute idea, but a little hard to actually make happen. Have you ever tried to unclench a teeny tiny little newborn fist, put paint on it, and then spread the hand out on a surface? Oh man.
4 weeks old.
Seriously, those eyes!
