Thumbs Up Thumbs Down Thursday

Happy two weeks of life my little Cheyanne. I have decided to share how we celebrated with a little thumbs up thumbs down Thursday game.

Here we go.

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Thumbs up to precious sleeping faces!

Thumbs up to being more alert during the day! Bright eyed girl.
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And an even bigger thumbs up to cuddling on the couch while its raining cats and dogs outsides! Flooding them is actually more like it.


Thumbs up to our new cloth diapers. Today was our first day trying them out and so far so good. Of course, the Thirsties diaper cover sure does help (see orange?). So cute. And note Peapod throwing out the peace sign. She liked the orange Thirsties too.

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Thumbs down to gas. Baby gas causes baby screams. Thumbs down to both of those actually.

Thumbs down to dark circles under my eyes from lack of sleep even though Mom had the baby most of the night last night. I think the last three nights before of me handling the baby by myself all night might have caught up to me. Maybe tonight will be better.

That's all for my thumbs down. Life is good.

My 8-pounder

From 7lbs 8oz to 8lbs even in 12 days. She's a healthy girl my 8 pound beauty.



She's more alert each day. We spend much more time eating and playing now. I introduced her to a rattle sound today,, and she loved it. She even smiled a few times!... Then she lost interest and cried, but those smiles were priceless while they lasted! My mom's still here and she'll vouch for those purtty smiles too. Of course, more alert time means less sleep for me and much more time breastfeeding. That alone takes a lot out of me, but its worth it.

OK, well its late and I have an hour before she wakes up to eat, so I'm going to run to bed and grab a few minutes of shut eye. Wish me luck. Oh, and happy two weeks in the world tomorrow Cheyanne. Sniff sniff.

I will leave you with this. Pictures from Chey's first bath from last week, a sponge bath only since her umbilical cord hadn't fallen off yet. These pictures are a little late, but oh well. Thank you Nana for your continual assistance in the bath area since Cheyanne seems to like pretty much EVERYTHING else more than a bath.

This is how it began. Calm.

And this is what it became. Brutal.

Nana and Peapod made amends

She slept it off. It was traumatic.

New and Improved

That's how I feel. I feel new and improved--- and exhausted and a little confused on a daily basis. But, Cheyanne has made my life so much better just in her short little nine days of life, that new and improved takes up most of my day. Nine days. How, oh how, is that possible? Is it too early to say that time is flying by? I am loving these days.

Every day she changes. Its the neatest thing to see how much she develops from day to day. Like even from morning to night, she is obviously learning new things. Around day five, she became much more alert, staring at things with these HUGE bright eyes all day long. I think that she started to see colors because she would stare at my mom's bright yellow shirt for long periods of time or at anything colorful that moved. She looked a little something like this.



We had her first doctor's appointment on Monday. They weighed her and she was doing great. She only lost 3 ounces since her birth weight. Then we weighed her again yesterday and she is at 7lb 12oz already (my weight when I was born). She's growing so fast. I thought it was supposed to take two weeks to get back to her birth weight. Well apparently despite all that breastfeeding pain (for me not her), she is getting something good out of it. That actually has been our main struggle since we've been home. Breastfeeding. Friends, let me tell you... especially my children-free friends that want to breastfeed one day. Its hard work. It may not be as easy as you have always thought it would be. Perhaps for some it comes naturally. But, for me it did not. For neither of us actually. Its very much still a work in progress at each and every feeding. But, it is sooo worth it. That satisfied look on her face afterwards melts me heart every time. So anyways, I will be working on my birth story post and get it up as soon as I can. Its crazy how very unmotivated I am to do much other than stare at my little sweetheart all day. One of these days, I'll entertain you again. I hope ;)

For now, I'll leave you with this.



My little clone is just too cute. Can you see the resemblance?

Happy EDD baby

and thank goodness you have been here for 5 days already! Wait. How have you been here in my life for 5 day already? Here's what you did today to celebrate... made a lot of funny faces.













Yep. We had a very exciting day. Eating. Sleeping. Pooping. Takes a lot out of a girl. Now we really are pooped so we're off to sleep to do it all over again tomorrow.

Sneak Peak

Here's a quick sneak peak at my world during the last few days... Much more to follow (one day...when I sleep for more than 45 minutes at a time).

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Led to this perfect beauty...

























Cheyanne Faye born 9/16 at 6:13pm 7lbs8oz 20.5inches