Two Months

Ohhh Katie bug, you’re two months old already. We had a little photo shoot the day after you turned two months and you are quite adorable when you’re in a good mood.

We are still dealing with reflux. We upped the Zantac dosage which is helping, but Katie still shows signs of obvious discomfort and fussing through at least one bottle a day so the doctor has us trying Prevacid. Hopefully this will be the answer!

On the bright side, we have had a handful of nights where Katie has “slept through the night”. I know I’ve just jinxed ourselves. I’m pretty sure that our success is directly related to having Katie sleep in the Fisher Price Rock and Play which is a nice incline and keeps the reflux at bay. I can’t wait until we get this reflux under control so we can have a happy baby more often!

Katie is smiling like crazy but it’s tough to get a photo of it. She’s also getting really good at holding her head up and working those neck muscles.

I go back to work in one month and I can’t say that I’m excited about it. I think it took awhile for Katie and me to really bond and I didn’t really realize that we had until I was away from her for 6 hours for a ladies night. It was the longest stretch that I had been away from her and it was tough! Matt has started traveling 3 days/2 nights a week and while part of me is jealous because he gets a break and gets solid sleep, the other part of me doesn’t know how he can make it that long without seeing her beautiful smiling face. Thank goodness for FaceTime!

I can’t wait to see what this next month brings us!

One Month

On 4/13, Katie turned one month old. She’ll be six weeks old on Tuesday and I’ve been meaning to write an update for awhile.

Katie is going anywhere from 2.5-4 hours between feedings during the day. She naps pretty well during the day but then all hell seemingly breaks loose in the evenings – we have a hard time getting her to sleep and she gets so tired and super cranky.

At night, Katie can go about 5-5.5 hours between feedings for the first stretch of the night, then about 3 hours after that. This means I’m generally getting up twice in the night. Ideally we’ll get to one wake up around 3am, then up for the day around 6.

Katie tolerates baths now and will stop fussing once we get her in the water. I take this as a sign that she enjoys bath time. I’d like to start a bedtime routine and include a nightly bath.

I’m pretty sure we hit a growth spurt at 4 weeks and I’m anticipating one coming up at 6 weeks. Katie is fitting pretty well into 0-3 month sized clothes after the growth spurt.

Katie enjoys looking at black and white books as is starting to notice the toys on her activity gym/mat. She also “talks” at us, mostly after diaper changes. We’re hoping that she’ll start smiling at us soon.

Katie is also a master at spitting up. She gets some bottles with formula and we’ve switched to one that is for spitting up, and it seems to be helping. Hopefully she’ll grow out of this soon so I don’t have to stay up as long with her at night after she eats.

This post has been anything but organized, but I’ll leave with a picture of Katie taken a few days after her 1 month birthday.

Baby K’s First Quilt

I purchased the fabric for this quilt awhile ago and had it washed and ready. I finally had time and motivation to work on it and I powered through and completed it in one weekend. I decided to just do strips of fabric instead of blocks to keep things on the simple side.

I added in two strips that were kind of patchworked together to add some variety, and because I needed a little bit more length. I like how they keep the quilt from just being two fabrics alternated the whole time. I kept the quilting super simple – just stitching “in the ditch” or where the rows met. The back is a white flannel with small pink dots. I used this Prudent Baby tutorial for a cheat on the binding. I find binding to be one of the most intimidating parts of quilts. This method worked good enough for me.

Enough chatting, here are some pictures:

Savannah was a big help through the whole quilting process:

In fact, she’s already tested it out on the back of the glider!

It’s far from perfect – I’m sure its not square, the binding is a bit off, my cuts were probably wrong, but it’s finished and it’s good enough for me!

Vacation Recap

Oops! I went on vacation for two weeks and was too busy to update the blog. Here’s a catch up post.

Matt painted the nursery. (Martha Stewart’s Sea Glass in Glidden base — satin finish)

Then he painted the downstairs hallway. (A Restoration Hardware color matched to Glidden in eggshell finish. I think maybe this color is Gravel? I can’t remember)

Then the upstairs hallway. (Benjamin Moore’s Revere Pewter color matched to Glidden in eggshell)

Then he did a second coat on the downstairs hallway and painted the kitchen the same color as the hallway. I’m not sure he’ll ever paint again.

We enjoyed a great Christmas and New Years. We hosted a Mad Men/1960s themed NYE party and had a blast (though staying up until 2:30am was a bit rough). Here I am with our niece Adi in our homemade photobooth:

And with a candy cigarette:

We also bought a 1963 Life magazine from the antique store and created a display of old ads:

I also started the third trimester. Cue freak out. We have finally ordered the crib but made no progress on the glider situation. Hopefully we will soon, though, because we’re down to 12 weeks until the due date. Time is going to start flying by.

Cross your fingers that time slows down a bit — I already know that January is going to whiz by!

31 Gifts

I’m sure most of you have heard of 31 Gifts. They’re a catalog company that’s pretty popular with the ladies. I have a friend who just joined as a consultant and I’m having a catalog/online party.

Christmas is fast approaching (umm, where did October go?!) and it’s not too early to knock some of your shopping out of the way from the comfort of your keyboard. I actually ordered a Christmas present for my niece back in August when I went to a 31 party hosted by the same friend. Shipping was much faster than I expected – so you’ll definitely have your items in time for the holidays. I know lots of moms are in love with this stuff and the quality is really high (with some great prints to choose from, too). You can browse the catalog online by clicking this link.

If you’re interested, you can order as a part of my “party” by clicking this link. Ordering is open until November 22nd. There is a promotion right now where if you spend $31, then you get a carry-all caddy for only $1.

And who knows, if I end up getting anything for free, maybe I’ll do a giveaway!

Celebrate

It’s Alton’s 4th birthday today!

From the itty bitty kitten who was small enough to sit on my laptop….

and could fit into 12-pack boxes of Diet Coke…

and tried to nurse on his kitty bed.

To this big guy who can barely fit in the top section of the kitty condo…

and prefers sleeping on Zeus’ dog bed.

Happy 4th birthday, Alton!