Juliet's First Month
My goal is to take a picture of Juliet on the 29th of each month. I'm not off to a very good start considering that I remembered this months photo session when she was already bathed, swaddled and being rocked to sleep. But that's how I roll...by the seat of my pants.
I don't know if its because she's my third or possibly my last but I am totally enjoying every moment with this baby. I don't feel rushed to get her to sleep, bugged when she wakes up early from a nap or roll my eyes when I have to change her diaper for the 3rd time in 20 minutes. (I'm exaggerating a little bit but just go with me here:) I'm successfully living in the now for the first (and probably the last) time of life. I'm usually horrible at that. And it seems to me that we all feel like that. Joey wants to hold her as soon as he's walked in the door and changed out of his BDU's. He holds her while I make dinner and while he eats dinner, and puts her to sleep almost every night. She's totally spoiled:)
And Georgie wants to hold her like 15 times a day. She gets tired of her in about 5 minutes because she's not aloud to walk around with her, shake her, hold her upside down or force stuffed animals and barbies in her face but then she's ready to go again about 30 minutes later.
Isaac seems to have found the perfect big brother balance. He leaves her alone for the most part because she's usually sleeping or eating but if she's somewhere near his foot path he gives her a kiss and says, "ooooh she's so cute!" The other day he said to me, "Mom, I don't want her to grow up and get all big and stuff." "Me neither." I told him. "She's so little and cute. Why do we have to grow up? I want us all to stay little forever." Did he jump in my head? I try not to say this outloud too much but the kid totally agrees with me!! I was shocked to hear him say it. I tried to give him my vote of confidence about how fun getting bigger is when what I really wished I could do was keep over and cry with him about it!
What We've been up to:
Juliet sleeps through the night about 40% of the time for the last 2 weeks now. Don't hate me;) We sleep together, she and I, in the queen size bed that's in her nursery. I LOVE it. She sleeps on the go in her car seat whenever we're running errands or at church, something my other two have NEVER done. It's sooo nice!!
When she was about 15 days old she had a fever. We had to take her to the emergency room for a Lumbar Puncture and some blood tests. We spent 48 hours in the hospital with her and discovered that she just had a UT Infection...nothing too scary! For a few hours there I just knew that my worst nightmare was coming true and my child was going to die. I cried off and on for the first few hours of our Emergency Room stay. But, she's totally fine!!
She spent an entire day alone hanging out with Daddy while I went to Dallas to get Isaac from spending a week with my parents. Joey was on call so he couldn't leave Altus. She drank some bottles that I had pumped and Joey enjoyed spending alone time with her.
I need to make an entire post about the dreamy time Isaac had with Gaga and Papa. He cried so hard when he left them, as did my parents. He watched shark week every night with Papa and came back a veritable dictionary of Shark facts. More on that later.
Happy First month Birthday Juliet!!
