First Day without Daddy!

Rusty went back to work today after 4 weeks and 6 days off! what a blessing it was to have him at home while we transitioned in to a family a 4. We had a great day today no road blocks today at least everybody got fed and clothed and diapers were changed and the house got picked up so i'll say it was pretty successful! Carrson had a little bit of a testing time this morning where he was testing me and still making sure that all the same rules still applied even though Rusty wasnt home and we worked through it, it turned out being a great day! We sure do miss Rusty being home with us but somebody has to work in this household!

Paisley is a smiley little girl now! She will be 5 weeks old tomorrow and is just precious as ever! Carrson is so sweet to her, when she cries he says "mommy pick her up!" or "mommy she needs num nums!" or if we are in the car he says "its ok paiswey-no cryin" he is so sweet and caring :)

We are getting ready to celebrate our first holiday with her! The 4th of July and we are going camping (renting a cabin) on Lake Whitney should be a great time we are really excited to go out with the whole family!

I'll post some pics soon!

3 weeks old!

Paisley will be 3 weeks old on Wednesday, and did i miss something somewhere that says when you have a baby your supposed to stay locked in the house until the random people at random stores say its ok to come out???? I dont think so! so people keep your comments about my tiny baby going to the store with us at home! We were at babies r us and this lady is standing behind me and she says oh how old is she....i reply and she says oh my goodness can you imagine being that tiny out in this heat? are you kidding me lady seriously we live in Texas, she is dressed appropriately and taking a nap...looks comfy to me...ugh

speaking of going out places a fall back to being a 2nd child is that you have an older sibling to keep up with and big brother has to keep entertained so we went to the water park last week and mama and pais stayed in the shade with the nice breeze and big brother and daddy had a blast at Bedford Splash water park! This week we are going to the Cleburne one....and dont worry baby police she will stay shaded and comfortable just like last week :)

Paisley is getting better at lifting her head and holding the support of the big old thing lol, its so cute, she is starting to get the "attitude head" going its cute...she has also found her "witching hour" its normal at this age for babies to have a fussy period during some time of day, and she has found hers...at about 7-8 pm she starts getting fussy and inconsolable and gassy :( its not too bad rusty and i switch off taking turns trying different things to console her, i wish it was as easy and her nursing and being happy again but not so much. it usually lasts till about 10:30 or so and then she is ok and goes to bed and sleeps just fine at night. Its just getting to that point and juggling, nursing, burping, walking, rocking, rubbing her belly lightly, bicycling her legs, changing her diaper and starting all over at the beginning when none of that works or when it only works for a few minutes. But the great website of www.Kellymom.com tells me this is normal

http://www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns/fussy-evening.html

http://www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns/fussybaby.html

http://www.kellymom.com/pantley/pantley22.html

anyway hopefully this tiny little phase passes fast, i hate hearing her cry and not being able to fix it, makes me so tense to not be able to fix whats wrong! anyway i need to upload some more pictures from my camera and hopefully i'll have some time to do that sometime this week :)

2 week check up!

well our baby girl is now 2 weeks old, time is flying! and she is still precious as ever, thank goodness because her big brother is becoming a lovely little handful :D we had our 2 week check up with Kelly in Peaster and Paisley is now weighing in at 8 lbs 6 oz, she only had to be back to birth weight by 2 weeks but she has definitely surpassed that! She also got her 2nd newborn screening (blood test) done and it didnt go as well as the first in regards to her tolerating the heel prick...poor baby, the first one she nursed right through and didnt even budge...this one, not so much, she was latched on and as soon as her heel was pricked she unlatched and was MAD but it was over fairly fast and she was ok again. I also got checked out to see how I was healing up and so far so good, I'm feeling great too so thats a plus. We go see Kelly again in 4 weeks just to check on us one more time :D I'm sad that we wont have any appts after that I sure will miss those girls.

Paisley also saw Dr. Young today our Pediatrician for the first time and he also gave her a clean bill of health she is 21.5 inches long now and her head is 14 5/8 inches so she is growing everywhere perfectly just as she should and he said she looked perfect and to keep doing what we are doing :D . We'll go back again on July 27 for her 2 month check up.

Paisley also saw her first movie in the theater today, Rusty and I went to see "The Hangover" wow it was very funny and Paisley did pretty good we only had to leave the room once to change her diaper and the rest of the time i was able to nurse her just fine and then to get her back to sleep i just walked her in the little hall way so i was still able to see the movie so i did'nt miss hardly anything at all!

SLIDE SHOW!!

http://www.dfwbirthphotographer.com/Paisley.html

this is more pictures in slide show form of paisleys birth

First Bath!!!

her cord stump fell off on day 6! thats crazy fast it took carrsons 3 weeks to fall off...anyway so she can enjoy baths now...and she did she loved it! Rusty gave her her first bath and she didnt even cry :)