Wearing My Baby

I love me some baby wearing!

And it looks like Chloe Jo loves it, too! P.S. Before you comment about how this is some new form of cruel and unusual punishment, please note that she isn't crying about being in the sling and the sling is completely mesh around her head for optimal breathing. It also comes equipped with a safety harness so she doesn't fall out.

Super Award

Sherry nominated me for this award. Thanks so much! I appreciate the shout out and I do love keeping up with your blog. There are so many blogs that I love and so many super people in the blogging world. I now nominate Chelley, Ashley, and Courtney.

She's My Little Sweet Thing

Chloe Jo is big enough to start wearing her 0-3 month clothes. Tear. I'm also going to move up to size 1 in diapers. She's getting so big already. I wish it didn't go by so fast. She has started responding a little bit to me and giving me these gummy grins. So cute! She has decided that she doesn't want to sleep much during the day. I can get two good naps out of her and that is about it right now. But, it makes for some good sleep during the night so I'm okay with that! She slept from 11:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. and then from 4:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. last night. Woo hoo! I'm still trying to implement some of the BabyWise plan. The whole thing just doesn't work for us. I do like the feed time, wake time, nap time cycle, though and have been using that part of it. She really is doing great and we are so blessed to have her. Now if we could just get her a sibling to play with....

Here are some pictures I took of her yesterday.

Wordless Wednesday

Is it a Boy or Girl?

I was asked this question tonight by two different people. Do you think they were both color blind?

The Grands

Grampy, CJ and G-Jo

I figured since I posted pics of Russ' parents with CJ, that I should do the same with mine.

Visitors

Chloe Jo had some visitors today. Her Nana, Papaw (Russ' parents) and cousin Alli came to see her. We had a good visit are are happy they were able to come!
CJ and her Nana
CJ and her Papaw

CJ and Alli

Hey Uncle Jeremy...

Your blue suede converse have nothing on my tiny pink ones! (Of course, mine aren't real converse....)

Love, Chloe Jo

Obi-Wan Kenobe and Chloe

I took Chloe to the fertility clinic I used yesterday to show her off. Obi-Wan Kenobe was so great during our treatments for infertility. We are so grateful to him and the staff there. Unfortunately the NP who I saw many times takes Wednesday's off and I had forgotten, but I did get to see everyone else I wanted to see. Obi-Wan was so sweet when he came in. I gave him a huge hug and he wanted to know all about the birth and who delivered and who Chloe's pediatrician is. He also asked if I was going to come back over there or if I am going to stay with my OB. I hadn't really even thought about that yet. I need to do my post partum with my OB, but after that I will probably move back over to the fertility clinic.

After that we also stopped by my work to show Chloe off there. Everyone was so great and oohed and ahhed over her. Many of my co-workers even said she look like me! I will have to take her back in sometime because one of my friends wasn't at her desk and another one wasn't there at all.

It's hard to think that she is going to be three weeks old tomorrow. On one hand, I can't believe she is actually here and has been for three weeks. On the other hand, I can't believe that she hasn't been here forever. We love her so much!

Wordless Wednesday

Today's Project

I absolutely love shadow boxes. They are wonderful for nostalgic, sentimental items that you just don't know what to do with. A couple of Christmas' ago, Mom and Dad bought Russ a shadow box and I put his old boy scouts stuff in it. We have had it hanging in our apartment since. He loved it and I love that his old stuff isn't just stuck in a box somewhere not being appreciated.
When I got my box of baby stuff I knew exactly what I wanted to do with part of it. I wanted to put it in a shadow box and hang it up by Russ' Boy Scouts shadow box. The pink dress at the top is what I wore home from the hospital when I was born. The pink bonnet beside it goes with it, but I actually wore the white bonnet underneath it. The pink outfit and bonnet at the bottom were purchased by my Daddy for me. The shoes were just cute and looked nice. Mom said that they weren't from any special occasion. I just wore them when I was a baby.
Russ' shadow box was in his office/Chloe's room, but I moved it out to the living room and hung it up beside mine. I just love them!

Baby Development

Do you all get annoyed with mothers who think their child is developing faster than average? I used to until I met little Chloe. Caution: I'm so going to brag on my baby girl in this post and you may need to throw up if you continue reading. Don't say I didn't warn you.

1. She smiles. No, really, she does. She has been smiling since a she was a few days old and I just chalked it up to her finding her facial muscles. I didn't really think she knew what she was doing....until Sunday. I was pinching her little cheeks and cooing at her and she was looking straight at me and started grinning. Grinning! It was too perfect for her not to have know what she was doing. And it was extremely adorable but I'm biased.

2. She can see. Newborns eyes aren't supposed to be developed enough to follow objects. Her little eyes can follow things, mostly Russ and I, and she can focus on certain things. This one I'm not so sure about, but it just seems that way.

3. She has almost full neck mobility. One of the first things my parents and sister commented on when they met Chloe is her neck movement. She needs little help holding her head up and it has been this way since she was born. She also can turn her head without help. I think it's because her head is so small that she didn't need as much muscle development to be able to use her neck.

4. This is the last one. I promise! She can turn over. Not completely over onto her belly, but when I put her down to nap in her pack-n-play, I always put her on her back. She doesn't like to sleep on her back and when I go to check on her, she is always on her side. Plus she'll be on her right side one time and she'll be on her left side the next.

Maybe I'm just silly and these things aren't that unusual, but I was not expecting this so soon. My baby is growing so fast. I'm going to go have myself a good cry now.