Neglect

I have totally been neglecting my blog. I have pictures to post and things to talk about but I'm busy taking care of and mostly loving on my baby girl.

Being a mommy is the best best thing ever. I love being her mommy! And Cart loves being her Daddy.

Some days are difficult. Being a working momma takes its toll on me some days. She's in good hands during the day but some days it is still hard. Some days I'm so tired after dealing with 85, 5th graders I just want to crawl into bed. But I just pray for the strength and take care of her. Right after that 9pm bottle I'm usually in bed.

She is doing wonderful. Formula and Reflux issues aren't really an issue. We have a good combo that works and she is doing really well.

Definitely this week I'll post pictures, get her 3 month update done, and post about the adoption related stuff. See lots to talk about and not enough time!

2 Months

Faithe is now 2 months old. A week before she turned 2 months old she went to the doctor's for her 2 month baby well visit.

Doctor:
Weight: 12.6 lbs (90th percentile)
Height: 23inchs (75th percentile)
She had her shots as well and that made for a difficult evening. One of the vaccines can give children gas. For an already gassy baby that made for one long night of sleeping football hold style in momma's arms. She only wanted her momma.

At this appointment I asked the doctor about increasing her formula and he said we could. So we increased her to 6oz every 4 hours. So she eats at 5am, 9am, 1pm, 5pm, and 9pm. She'll usually eat 2-4 oz at 11pm for her dreamfeed and then she sleeps until 11am. So she eats 32-34 oz a day.

Clothing: She is officially into 3month clothing and some 3-6 month clothing. She has a little room to grow in both. We did have to go out and buy more "summer" type outfits because we expected it to be a little cooler than it has been. With her being hot natured already summer clothes were in order.

Diaper: She is in size medium gdiapers and had her first diaper rash. We think if she had been in regular disposables her rash would have been much worse. It only took 3 days to clear up.

Nap Time: Faithe isn't that great of a napper. But when she is put on her tummy she'll get in a good 3hr nap. She definitely likes to be held until she is out cold and then she can be put down.

Wake Time: She is becoming more vocal and loves to smile. She has such a precious smile and just loves to interact. She plays on her activity mat, does tummy time, reads books, and swings. We just bought her a jumperoo and Baby Mozart. She only plays in her jumperoo right now for about 5-10 minutes. She loves bouncing on her feet but I don't let her bounce in the jumperoo too much until her neck control gets much better. She watches her baby mozart once a day and usually falls asleep in her bouncer watching it.

Night Time: Faithe sleeps from about 10pm to 5am. Lately it takes a while for her to get to sleep at night. She doesn't want to miss anything so she fights going to sleep. Even though we do babywise I'm pretty sure she will have a difficult time when she is a toddler. Although I hope babywise does more wonders on her:)

Bath Time: Faithe still LOVES bath time. If she is crying and upset I can put her in the bath and the crying immediately stops.

Faithe Stories:
Faithe is a very good burper. Her and daddy have competitions to see who can burp louder. Sometimes you can hear her burps across the house.

Faithe loves kisses from mommy. It is so cute when I give sound effect kisses and when I pull away she opens her mouth like mommy does. I'll have to post the video in my next picture post because it is too cute.

Sometimes if she is in her car seat and unhappy just sitting there all I have to do is pick up the carseat. It is rather comical and I've even had comments when this occurs.

Picture Post

First time at the Beach


Meeting her Grandpa Mike

At the beach with Aunt Sarah

First day going to church. 9days old

First time meeting Aunt Eri

Love her eyes here.

1 month photo with the pink dog. Her birthmom has the same pink dog so she'll always be able to judge how big Faithe is.

First Valentine's day. She spent the day with daddy, Gramma, and Grampa. Momma was at work.

First time on her activity mat. She love looking at herself in the mirror.

Look at those feet

6 weeks old

Faithe is 6 weeks old today. My baby girl is growing so big.

Babywise: we are doing babywise with Faithe. It allows for a routine for her and helps to plan out our days. This is her current "schedule" the good thing is we are flexible based on her needs

5am- Eat and back to bed
8am - Zantac and eat
830-930 - wake time

930-11 - Nap
11am - eat
1130-1230- wake time
1230-200 - nap
2pm - eat
230-330- wake time
330-500- nap
500 - eat
530-630- wake time/bath
630-800 - nap
800 - eat
830 bed
11pm - dreamfeed/diaper change
2am - eat and back to bed

Wake time: During her wake time she does various activities. This week at Gramma's house she went on walks, played on her discovery mat, did tummy time, had books read to her, sat on the porch, did neck exercises and just sat and had conversations with Gramma and Grampa (although they did more of the talking).

Sleeping: two days this week little miss didn't want to nap at all. She was fussy both days. Then on Wednesday Gramma and Grampa started using the above schedule we gave them. Instead of Faithe falling asleep in someones arms she was put in her pack n play to fall asleep. With this we started CIO a little. We don't let her CIO for more than 15 min and we listen for her cry. If it's her hunger cry we get her up and feed her an additional 2 ounces. But usually it is a soft cry with wimpers. If she hasn't fallen asleep at the end of the 15 min and is still crying she is picked up soothed and calmed then put back to bed. So she has had more naps with only one long nap of an hour and a half. The shortest being just 30 min. So more naps is good. At night she sleeps good. She has gotten the hang of going to bed awake and putting herself to sleep. She wimpers and grunts sometimes but mostly just goes to bed.

Eating: She is still eating every 3 hours with a full 4oz except the dreamfeed she'll only eat 2oz. She gets Zantac twice a day and has been switched to Enfamil Nutrimegin. We switched her to that on Sunday and she has done much better gas wise while being on that formula. Makes for a happier Faithe and a happier momma and daddy.

Clothing: She has made her way into 3month clothes. Her NB PJs bust at the seems so she can't be in those anymore. We had to go buy more 3 month PJs with out feet on the them. Gotta have her feet free. :)

Diapers: She is still in size small gdiapers although we should probably move to medium. I'm waiting to find out how much she weighs. I think we switched her at 14lbs not sure.

Stimulation: Too much and she gets fussy. This requires a nap.

We think we had her first smile this week. And she has smiled several times but until it is on a regular basis I think we'll give gas the credit. LOL...she is one gassy baby.

5 Weeks

Baby girl is 5 weeks old. This was her first week at Gramma and Grampas. Grampa was out of town so she had quality time with Gramma.

Monday was the highlight of her week. She got to meet Governor Scott. We were in Panera having lunch with a friend of mine when the Governor came in. He made some rounds to the tables and stopped by our table. Faithe was sleeping in my arms and he asked how old she was. I said "she's one month old today". He said what a cutie and moved on. I would have gotten a picture with him but she had just fallen asleep and I didn't want to wake her by moving.

Weight - Monday she weighed 10lbs 6oz

Doctors - she went to the doctors on Monday to follow up on the reflux. The doctor prescribed Zantac and wants us to switch formula. We started with the zantac and are still deciding on the formula change. She is doing much better on the zantac so we aren't certain that the change in formula will help any further.

Sleep - Her sleep this week has been much better. She goes to bed around 9 after his 8pm bottle. She sometimes has a dreamfeed at 11pm then wakes at 2am and then 5am. She usually has trouble going back to sleep after her 5am bottle. So she snuggles with mommy or daddy while the other gets ready for work.

Eating - On Sunday we had upped her feeding to 5-6 oz at each feeding because she was eating 4oz and then an hour after a feeding wanting another 2oz. When we were at the doctor he said we should take it back down to 4oz. He said halfway through the bottle we need to burp her and give her a break. Then after the bottle burp and break if she still wants more to eat then give it to her. He said that all people if they eat fast their stomach knows its full but there mouth gets the message late. Thus overeating occurs. So the breaks in feeding allow her mouth to catch up to her stomach. So far it is working.

Clothing - It appears she will be wearing some 3month clothes and some newborn still. Depends on the brand of clothing. Carter's clothing is definitely 3months.

Bathtime -she still loves bath time. Loves her water on the warm side. She also loves her massages afterwards.

Diapers - she is wearing size small gdiapers. I'm sure before she is 2 mnths she will be in size medium.

Awake time- she loves her activity mat and Gramma said this week one time she hit one of the hanging toys. One time she actually fell asleep on her mat. She also does tummy time and can handle that for about 10 min at a time. She has good neck control as well. She also enjoys being read to.

She is one happy and content baby who is loved so very much.

Randomness

This post will be bullets because I have a lot on my mind.

• Teaching 5th grade has its challenges and rewards. One of the challenges is when the curriculum doesn't match the text book and I must create all my materials. What Joy!


• Today on the drive home from school I wanted to call my daddy. I picked up the phone and remembered he isn't here. So instead I had a conversation with him in my car.


• Faithe had her first day at Gramma and Grampa's house. She did wonderful! Gramma enjoys having this little girl in her life. Faithe is so loved.


• We started Faithe on Zantac yesterday and so far it seems to help. Her gas spells only last a few minutes and she has had more BM (I know you really wanted to know that:))


• My house is a wreck. It is so hard to work, care for Faithe and get the house work done. I guess that is what Saturdays are for.


• I have the most absolutely amazing husband. Cart does so much for Faithe and I it's crazy. He can't sit still for a second(unless he is holding Faithe or playing with her) so he has kept up with the laundry, washes all of her bottles, washes her diapers and still has time to love on us. We are so blessed to have him in our lives.


• Faithe is officially one month old as of yesterday. She is so much bigger!


• We got the CD of her newborn pictures today in the mail and OMG our photographer Jenn did an AMAZING job. I have to go through all the pictures again and pick my favs, but there are so many! Then I'll do a post with my favs.

Until next time!

Thanks and Praise

This is a post I've wanted to post but some how it is centered around drama. This is not something it should be centered around. Let me explain.

When we were matched with Rebecca I mentioned that someone helped introduce us to her. At that time I thanked that person and left it at that. When Faithe was born and we were on our way home I received a text that said "your welcome" from said person. This to me was this person asking to be thanked of which I did when we were matched.

However, this person does not need to be thanked and praised. The true person to be thanked and praised is God. Because HE is the one who orchestrated our adoption of Faithe. HE did it. Yes he may have used you to assist him. For that you should thank HIM for allowing you to assist him. For HE is the one who made this possible.

HE deserves ALL the Thanks and Praise! Because HE is the Miracle worker! Through HIM all things are possible. Through HIM our adoption of Faithe was made possible. HE is the Almighty and I thank him everyday for my little girl who was made perfect in HIS eyes.