It's such a blessing to be home and be able to take care of these things in the way that I have always wanted to. If the laundry doesn't get done today, it's ok, I have tomorrow. If I want to hold her on my chest during a nap instead of putting her in her crib so I can clean the kitchen, I can...the kitchen will still be here during her next nap.
I feel like she has grown and changed a lot in these last 3 weeks. Sometimes I think she looks like me, and other times I think she's the spitting image of David. Here's a picture of Abigail, me (on top) and David (on bottom) around the same age...you decide!
This weekend David and I made a family outing to the Legends to try and get as much of our Christmas shopping done as possible. It was a big day for me, because we stayed out long enough for me to need to feed her twice away from home. I was successful! Big plus and made me feel great. Abigail slept through the entire shopping adventure and we got a lot done.
She is sleeping pretty good at night. It depends on what day you ask us. We've worked out somewhat of a system to maximize each other's sleep. After her last feeding around 10:00 or 10:30, David takes her and rocks her and tries to get her on to sleep. I usually go ahead and get into bed, after we've picked a maximum time that David will allow himself to stay up to. If it reaches that time, he'll come and get me and I'll take over so he can sleep. Usually he gets her down and then comes to bed. I'm in charge of getting up in the night to feed (obviously), so it works out pretty good. I get to go to bed earlier, but have to get up in the night. He goes to bed later, but sleeps straight through. This is what we HOPE happens. We've had a couple "never-ending nights" when we're both basically up and rotating all night long. Not the best. I can't imagine doing this without my sweet husband. He's never not there for me and up for anything. Not to mention he's an excellent diaper changer, bath giver, rocker, swaddler, and has the patience of Job. The first two years of dental school prepared him for not getting any sleep as well...a perk!
She is nursing great. I am still in a significant amount of discomfort, but it's manageable and I love my time nursing her. She turns her eyes so she can look at me and it's a sweet time when I can talk to her and basically stare at her...which is essentially my favorite thing to do these days.
Sunday was our first day at church and she did great. I successfully used the nursing mothers room and David held her during service before we put her in her carrier to sleep the rest of the service. Pastor Steve and Mary took us to lunch after church as well to celebrate. I was one proud Momma showing off my daughter. I think David and I would both say that taking her out in public and doing something we normally do really made it very real. We were PARENTS, taking our DAUGHTER to church with us. We were even on time...sort of. We'll see how many times we can pull that off.
Here we are by our un-decorated tree for church.
She was dressed up for the occasion of course!
Last night we decided it was finally time to decorate our tree. It was getting really cold, so we made ourselves some hot chocolate, built a fire, turned on the church Christmas program (we opted not to go since we had been out in the morning), put Abigail in her swing, and got to it. It turned out to be so much fun. Our first Christmas decorating as a family of 3! It was definitely something we'll always remember.
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