Newborness

In this age of cell phone camera access, Intagram, and Facebook, my photo addiction has run rampant when it comes to Lydie. She is the only one who cannot run away from me, and she is just changing every day. All of this combined with her cuteness means complete picture overload! I have SO many, and she is only two months old! I have decided to get them all recorded here on my blog. So this is a mix of cell phone and Cannon shots. None of which produce a professional result when in my hands.

The pictures are also all mixed up, so Lydie is younger in some at the end. She is a good girl. She is so social, and loves to be out running around with me during the day. She is becoming quit the little talker. Even when we are talking on the phone, she assumes we are directing it at her, and she coos back. It is the softest, most precious sound!
Our basement flooded the week Lydie was born. What a MESS! We had to have a disaster clean up company come rip out all the damage, and have it all redone. It was raw sewage, so that meant nothing was salvageable. The brand new room we had put together for Wally and Will was totally ruined.
Basically remodeling your basement the first month you have a baby and house guests is not ideal in any world. It means lot of workers in and out, and no naps because when the baby is asleep, there is bound to be a stranger in your house. It is put back together now,a nd that has made my life so much easier! Not an ideal situation!

Lydie has past the ten pound mark in weight, and is becoming more consistent in sleeping at night.  We had a couple of rough weeks where she did a lot of crying, and not a lot of sleeping, and I was wondering how on Earth we were going to survive this. To be honest, I was in a bit of a panic thinking there was no way I could keep up. I took her in to see if a reflux medication would help. It did, but now she is doing so well without it, and has mellowed out so much. It is so nice to be enjoying her because we are not so sleep deprived.

As long as she is swaddled. If she falls asleep out of her swaddle blanket, and I don't want to wake her to put her in it, she will wake up at 2 and then 5 in the morning. If she is wrapped tight, she will wake up at 5. She thinks we should be up for the day at that point, and with one more hour before my alarm goes off, I'm not game for that. We are working on getting her back to sleep efficiently so that I can get one more hour in, and get the kids off to school while she sleeps. She is still not a great napper, so that is also something I hope improves as she gets older.

She loves to take a bath and then lay on her changing table and listen to us talk to her, get rubbed down with lotion, and look at the artwork hanging on the wall above her. It is her sweetest time of day, and I tend to take a lot of pictures and video while she is there. Enjoy the picture overload! I think the subject matter is cute enough that I can pull this off. Yup.