This is going to be our monthly photo pose/prop for visually measuring how big Rebekah is getting. Every month we'll put her in the same chair so everyone can have some frame of reference for how big she is getting.
To be honest, I cannot believe how quickly 1 month has gone by. It feels like yesterday we were coming home from the hospital. Now Rebekah has already been to church 4 times, youth group a couple, and Starbucks too many times to count...
Oh, by the way, have I mentioned how adorable our little Bekah is?
Last week Jane and I were able to get out for our first real date night since Rebekah joined the fam. It was good, and we were even able to get through most of the night without talking about her. But seriously, how could you not talk about her - even if just to acknowledge how stinking amazing she is. And she really is amazing! And stinky! :) Well, only when she poops up the front of her diaper when Daddy is watching her. No kidding, I've never seen someone whose body parts have a magnetic attraction to fecal matter. As was grabbing another diaper and some baby wipes, she had quickly used her "current" diaper as an ink pad for some baby foot prints... I think then one of her arms got jealous of the foot as it found its way into the action.
Hmm....What else has happened in the last 3 weeks?
Well, maybe sometime Jane could throw up a blog to share with you all the fun she has had trying to breastfeed Rebekah. Through the counsel of our doctor, and various other people, this week will be the first week of purely bottle-feeding her. I can't tell you how stressful this decision has been on Jane, but she is feeling good about it. Rebekah took a month to get up to her birth weight - likely because of all the feeding issues - and she had even dropped significantly at one point. But as of this week she 9+ pounds and gaining like a champ!
Here's a super proud dad of his little girl!!
Great news! You may not believe it from this picture, but just last week we started putting Bek down in her own bed at night!! Jane and I actually get to sleep in the same bed again. My Mom actually helped us out big time with a couple of suggestions that really aided the process. First, we used a ticking alarm clock right by her head to simulate a heart beat (who would've thunk it), and then she has been sleeping propped up on her side. Don't know really why any of that works, but it does...and our precious princess is sleeping right now!
This picture is just awesome, because it shows off her big and bright eyes. And it also shows her off in the cutest pink sweatshirt. I'm not sure where we got it, but she looks great in it. Actually everyone has raved about how great she looks in pink...perfect, just about everything she has is pink!
More to come later - And hey Moffats, tell your blog to get off our back. We'll put one up when we're ready!! :) Just kidding...that feature is actually pretty cool.
