In week’s that is! My sweet girl is already 10 weeks old! She’s the most amazing, well behaved, growing girlie I know! We’ve had a very important week this week meeting our cousin and Aunt as well as getting our very first shots and attending our first Christmas party!
A prayer has been answered and we are on speaking terms with Shane’s sister and her family again. After several years of silence, we have started making strides to establish a relationship with one of the only family member living close to us. Shelley had her baby 2 weeks ago and we met him Thursday night for the first time! I was trying to keep up with her facebook to see when she was in the hospital, but I was 2 days late! I really had all intentions on surprising her in the hospital, but it just didn’t work out that way. After holding Chloe, he’s soo tiny! It’s hard to believe that Chloe was that little just 8 weeks ago! It’s like holding an apple compared to two bags of potatoes! He was so very well behaved! He didn’t really cry or fuss besides when he was hungry. She’s formula feeding him and has already had to add cereal to it because he wants to eat so much. As much as Shelley and her mom don’t want to hear it, he looks like his father. I bet if you held up a picture of Corey beside Connor, they’d be almost identical! But, the visit went well. It was nice to catch up and for her and I to talk about and compare our pregnancies. We actually came back over for dinner on Sunday. Shane was able to express some of his hard feelings to her and vice versa. I’m sure it felt good for the two of them to get things off of their chests. As we take it day by day, all I can do it pray for the best and hope that we can have a big happy family for these two kiddos to grow up in together!
Many weeks ago, we received information in the mail about the study of new vaccinations that Blue Ridge Ped’s was participating in. We discussed it and decided that we were going to do it. When I got to the office on Friday, they gave me more information to look over so that I could make an educated decision. I will admit that I was a little skeptical because there was the chance of them not working. No mother wants her child to be sick if there’s a way to prevent it, so I wasn’t going to do it. Then once we saw the doctor, I decided to do it. She explained that there was 2 groups, A & B, and that one was regular already on the market vaccines and the other was the new ones already used in Europe. We fell into the group that is the FDA approved vaccines.
After being around Chloe for 10 weeks, I know her tones of crying pretty well and can tell what she’s in need of. And when they gave her the 3 shots, it was instant screaming in pain. I was heartbroken! I didn’t actually cry though until later when I was telling Shane about it. Dr. Lonus said that she checked out great. She’s not above normal for length and is perfect in weight. The only thing we need to work on is turning her head towards the left because she tends to favor turning to the right. He said that if it’s not better by the next visit, then we’ll have to take her to a physical therapist. So we’re gonna try our best to work it out and avoid therapy. Currently, she’s 24 1/4’’ long and 11 lbs 12 oz. So we’ve got a very healthy and growing girl!
Along with everything else that happened this week, we attended the Home Builders Christmas party on Saturday. It was a covered dish event and boy was there a spread! The food was delicious and the entertainment … well was watching others dance and make complete fools of themselves! Chloe was the life of the party being passed around so much! Even people we didn’t know wanted to hold her being she was just too cute! She danced with Gampy first, then slow danced with David Scott. Shane and I enjoyed our first dance since the wedding. Too bad he won’t dance more … supposedly with dance lessons he would, but we’ll just have to see about that.
New this week:
- We’re smiling and laughing pretty much every morning. Some mornings she will just carry on for several minutes to herself.
- We are continuing to like 3 AM, but still sleeping about 4-5 hours at a time at night.
- We’re completely out of newborn pants! They are knickers on her – which would be fine if it was summer time, but with it being winter time, she’s gotta keep those legs covered.
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