Mothering Makena... and Hadley!: 1 Month Old!

I can't believe Hadley is already 1 month old. Time is flying by even faster than it did when Makena was a baby! Hadley slept amazingly for her first 3 weeks. She'd take long 3-4 hour naps, wake to eat and be changed, look around a bit then fall back to sleep on her own. Over night she sleeps for 5-7 hour stretches, only waking up once or (rarely) twice to nurse. She seems to be sensitive to needing to be burped after each feeding, and if she's fussing usually she needs help getting a burp out or she's ready for sleep. In the past week she's started fighting her sleep, and it takes a lot of rocking and bouncing and patting her booty to get her to keep her eyes closed. But once she's finally asleep she is out and can be transferred and put down without her waking up, something Makena never did!!

She's very smiley, and especially likes to smile and smirk in her sleep. Makena loves to hold her and asks to read her books and sing to her.

When she was 4 days old she and I stopped by Erin's baby shower for a bit. Thank goodness for the Ergo, she slept happily the whole time. When she was 6 days old we took her to Makena's preschool and we've been going twice a week since. (Pam takes Makena on Thursdays while Hadley and I stay home.) Preschool days are tough because we have to be in the car a lot. Thankfully she sleeps pretty well in the car but there have been a few times when she's been screaming her little head off, and that's super hard. :( Sometimes I hang out at the preschool with baby in the Ergo or Moby, sometimes I go sit in the car to give Makena the chance to get used to me dropping her off.

For Hadley's 2 week check up she weighed 10 lbs 15 oz. I had been worried she wasn't gaining enough because she nurses so quickly, only feeding for 5-10 minutes and rarely wanting the other side. Makena would easily nurse for 30-45 minutes, and nursed much more often!! So when Rowen weighed her she laughed and said we didn't have to worry. At 3 days old her weight had dropped to 9 lbs 15 oz, so in 2 weeks she gained a full pound! Makena had fun helping with the check up.

Kim and Susan came to visit us and they brought a bunch of fun photography supplies and we had a mini home photo shoot! When they left Makena mentioned that their family is just like ours- a mommy, a mama, a big sister and a little sister! I love that we have another family just like ours to help normalize it for her. :)

Hadley and Mama take lots of naps together.

I love taking photos of Makena and her sister, I love seeing how much she loves her and already Hadley is fascinated by watching her big sister. We are so excited for Hadley to grow up and start playing with Makena!

We took the girls (it's so strange still to think that we have TWO kids!) to take a photo with Santa. It came out so cute!! This year we barely did anything for Christmas. We got a tiny tree and had to go buy the cheapest stockings on Christmas Eve because ours were in storage and we forgot about them.