6 weeks!

avonlea is 6 weeks old today. :) yay! i feel like the time has just gone by in a blur of sleep deprivation, junk food, late night feedings, and housework. before the nicer weather hit, i was begining to get cabin fever and feel like a house troll. but, in good news, here is what we have noticed about our sweet girl.

she is starting to get on some sort of a schedule. she is still sleeping most of the time, but she does have a couple of periods of longer wake times, mainly between 9-12 am and 5-7ish pm. she is starting to take definitive "naps" now, or at least, i am starting to call them that...mainly between 12-3pm. her new "bedtime" is around 6pm, or whenever she wakes up/we finish dinner/after her bath, etc. and, she is pretty much sleeping through the night with only 2 (sometimes 3) light feedings, allowing me larger chunks of sleep at a time, which is greatly appreciated. it is still hard for me to wake up earlier in the morning, and i blame that on my night job, but also on the fact that we have been going to bed WAY too late. we need to get better about that.

in other news, she started smiling (for real) AT us, not just while asleep, the other day, and every day since she smiles more and more. this morning we had a fabulous smile session, which just about made my rainy day. :)

she has also started to roll from her stomach to her back, and then when she gets there, she cries. which is just funny in itself since she got herself there. her BFF Kylie, (amy's newest addition to the family) does the reverse....rolls from her back to her stomach and then cries. it's pretty hysterical.

i don't know how much she weighs now, but i have started to realize that some of her preemie clothes are too short on her, so i have her in some newborn sizes. and with the extra small cloth diapers that she now fits in, i can JUST about keep those newborn sized pants up on her. :) some of them are still too big, haha.

speaking of that, for those that are curious....the cloth diapering thing is going very well. we only have about 15 diapers right now that will fit her skinny little body, so we pretty much just use the cloth while we are at home, and then use disposables while we are out in public and at night, (which is more often than you'd think! mommy doesn't like to stay home!). i do the wash every two or three days, and it is an easy wash routine, so it's not a pain at all. at $15/XS diaper, we have already made them worth it, and even though we have been using half cloth and half disposables, i would say we have probably already spent about $200 in disposable diapers, as preemie diapers are more expensive. as soon as she fits in the rest of the cloth diapers that i have, i am switching over completely, and i expect we will begin to save lots more money.

and finally, she has gotten MUCH better at the eating part of her life. we have begun to battle less and less over my boobs, and have cut down her feeding time by at least half, which is great because she was taking an hour or more! so, things are looking up and starting to level out.

i hear this is where the fun starts!!! so happy 6 weeks, baby girl!

....until next time, friends. :)