January 11, 2010

Pyper is now one month old! It is hard to believe that a whole month has gone by since she was born and I still should be pregnant!! She had a doctor's appointment last Thursday and she was 5lbs 12 oz. That means that she gained 6 ounces in one week. So, she is doing really well and the doctor said we could go two weeks before her next appointment which will put us right around my due date. Hopefully she will be full birth weight by then and we can relax the heinous feeding schedule that is leaving us completely exhausted. Knowing my luck, the doctor will say it is okay to let her sleep and she will decide she doesn't want to! We have also found a solution to the gross vitamin she has to take. Instead of forcing it down her throat and having her throw it all up a half our later, we mix it with her milk over several feedings throughout the day. Now she doesn't even know that she is taking it and she is still getting the iron that she needs.

Sisters

Three Weeks Old

Pyper has been doing really well since we were able to take her home from the hospital. She spent a little over two weeks in the NICU and we brought her home on Dec. 28. On Dec. 27 she weighed 5 lbs 1 oz and at her first doctor's appointment on Dec. 31 she weighed 5 lbs 6 oz. We just had another doctor's appointment yesterday, Jan. 7, and she was 5 lbs 12 oz. We are still on a 3 hour feeding schedule that has left us exhausted but it looks like it has been paying off. Because she is doing so well, we don't have to take her to another doctor visit for 2 weeks instead of 1 and that will put her right around my actual due date and we are hoping that she will still be doing well and then we will be able to switch to a normal newborn schedule of visits. In this picture she is three weeks old, but as of today she is a big girl of 4 weeks! She is a tiny little thing and we are happy she is growing so that she won't seem so fragile.

Our Girls

Christmas Morning

Christmas this year was really fun for Kensley. She was so excited about all the presents and couldn't wait to open all of them. Several times a day she would get all the presents from under the tree and let us know who each one of them was for. She had it memorized. One day she went to Aunt Lois's house and said "I have one present under the tree and Pyper has two!" Lois was mortified and let Kensley know that she had some more presents for her. :o) Not to worry, we hadn't bought her Christmas presents yet and she got a new scooter and a laptop computer (not a real one, of course). She was very happy. Kensley does not like Santa, though, and became completely hysterical when she was told Santa was coming to our house and didn't want to go home. I had to reassure her that Santa WOULD NOT come to our house and that she would be safe so that she would calm down. She was obsessing about it constantly and would keep asking me if she was going to be safe at our house from Santa.

Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas!