Our Little Baby

No, we're not talking about Bridget. Our newest little baby is Jillian. She really likes to pretend that she's a little baby. She'll ask us to wrap her up in a blanket, and then pick her up. Then, she wants one of us to "show" her to the other (i.e., she'll say to Daddy, "Show your little baby to Mommy"). So, we'll say, "Oh, she's so cute!", or "She has so much hair!", and Jillian will have a big smile the entire time. We made the mistake of saying to her once "She cries all the time", because now Jillian makes this fake-crying sound, trying to sound like Bridget.

Mommy is not too thrilled that Daddy is playing this up with Jillian, but it's still pretty funny to watch.

Natural Curls

After giving Bridget a bath, we found that she has naturally curly hair. This is something that she gets from Mommy. It hasn't been that noticeable since as soon as she wears her stocking cap, it gets flattened out pretty quick. But, it seems that her hair style will closely resemble her Mommy, while her hair color (so far) resembles her Daddy.

The photo on the left is actually an older picture when Bridget was less than a week old. So, we've included another more recent photo to also show the curls. This doesn't show as much of the curliness, but it's the best we've got right now.

Late Night Feedings

Bridget is still locked in to feeding at between midnight and 4:00 a.m, and we're not talking about one or two feedings in this time. She is usually awake for a good part of this time, and wanting to eat a lot through most of it. Even though it seems like she has had a lot of milk, she still wants more and lets us know about it. It's usually during this time that she gets the most upset and agitated. Mommy noted that she tends to get a little wild, thrashing around and yelling at us.

The New Park

For whatever reason, Jillian calls it the "pink park". It's the new playground that was just installed over at Lake Sacajawea, and it has a lot of interesting things in it. We've been telling Jillian all week that we'd go to the new park when it opened, so she has been asking about it a lot. When it finally did open up, we went the next day, and Jillian ran wild all over it. For about an hour, she never stopped going, as she ran from one thing to the next. There were a lot of challenging climbing things, too, and Jillian loved to try each one (like this photo shows).

2 Weeks Old

Bridget continues to grow and become more active and aware of what's going on. She's been having a lot more awake time, and will stare at people when she sees them. She's also pretty good and turning her head around to find people, or at least to look at whatever was making noise.

Unfortunately, she came down with a little cold in the past day or so, and she's been very sleepy, and crabby when she's awake.

Jillian School

Since school began Jillian has been missing everyone, especially Rielee who came every Thursday to play.  Jillian always asks, "Where's Rielee?", so I explain how everyone (Tierney, Cale, Ty, Brock) goes to school to learn to read, write, and count.  She says she wants to go to school too.  Lately, outside, she's been saying that a lady called her and said to come to school, so she jumps on her little car and zooms off.  So when Papa said he would do the ABC's on Starfall, she got a book bag (to her it was) with a handle and got on her Princess shoes and said she was going to school with Papa.  Of course school also has art, so when she finished with reading she got to do some water coloring.

2-week Checkup

The whole family (Mommy, Daddy, Jillian and Bridget) made a trip to SWMC to see Dr. Wheelock for Bridget's 2-week checkup. It was kind of a challenge, because Jillian was all out-of-sorts, and whined most of the time. She probably still wasn't feeling good.

All of us went into the examination room when they called us back. Jillian was really looking forward to seeing the doctor again, so she could tell him about all of her owies. We got Bridget stipped down to her diaper, while Jillian sat patiently in a chair. When the nurse came in, Bridget got naked and weighed in at 8 lbs 14 oz. So, she gained nearly a pound since the last checkup.

Then, Dr. Wheelock came in and checked out Bridget using the stethoscope and otoscope, which Jillian had read about in a Dora book, so she watched very closely. Eventually, Jillian got bored and started squirming, so Daddy gave his cell phone to her to occupy her time. At the same time, Dr. Wheelock was asking questions about Bridget and typing them into his laptop. So, Jillian started asking us "how old is the baby?", and then writing in the cell phone with the stylus.

Dr. Wheelock said that everything looked good, and to come back in 2 weeks for the 1-month checkup.