First of all, Austin & I are so blessed by friends and family for bringing us meals and checking on us to make sure we have everything needed.
This first week has been so much fun! Having a newborn is amazing, she is so sweet and fragile and the poor girl has to try to communicate to 2 people who have never done this through crying only. She does a great job and makes things very easy on us. She sleeps lots, usually through the night. I have to wake her up to feed her! She was having a hard time the first couple days waiting for my milk to come in, but thankfully my mom stayed 2 nights with us to help with rotations of making her little life a little easier. She is now a super happy, well fed little bug who still sleeps lots. But when she is awake, she is so much fun! She looks all around and makes lots of cute faces and is so curious.
Also,to make life interesting, our power went out periodically 3 of the 5 first nights. As our friend, Ander put it, "nothin' like roughin' it with a newborn" ;).
Austin's work gave him a week paternity leave and also a week from working from home so that he could be here to enjoy this new time in our lives. Thank you Postition Tech!
Pretty much our lives consist of breastfeeding, diaper changes, getting rid of gas bubbles in poor Aliyah (aka no more beer for Dara, sad days), Austin & Aliyah going on walks or sitting on the patio getting sun and Dara & Aliyah taking lots of naps. There is not much room for anything else, though we try. I try to get a call/email or two in a day and Austin is trying to get the Curtishots blog updated (blog.curtishots.com) before he goes back to work.
She loves to sleep like this.
Aliyah's 1st bath
This little outfit I thought for sure was going to be too small and is wayyyy to big, but she looks so cute in it anyways. :)
This first week has been so much fun! Having a newborn is amazing, she is so sweet and fragile and the poor girl has to try to communicate to 2 people who have never done this through crying only. She does a great job and makes things very easy on us. She sleeps lots, usually through the night. I have to wake her up to feed her! She was having a hard time the first couple days waiting for my milk to come in, but thankfully my mom stayed 2 nights with us to help with rotations of making her little life a little easier. She is now a super happy, well fed little bug who still sleeps lots. But when she is awake, she is so much fun! She looks all around and makes lots of cute faces and is so curious.
Also,to make life interesting, our power went out periodically 3 of the 5 first nights. As our friend, Ander put it, "nothin' like roughin' it with a newborn" ;).
Austin's work gave him a week paternity leave and also a week from working from home so that he could be here to enjoy this new time in our lives. Thank you Postition Tech!
Pretty much our lives consist of breastfeeding, diaper changes, getting rid of gas bubbles in poor Aliyah (aka no more beer for Dara, sad days), Austin & Aliyah going on walks or sitting on the patio getting sun and Dara & Aliyah taking lots of naps. There is not much room for anything else, though we try. I try to get a call/email or two in a day and Austin is trying to get the Curtishots blog updated (blog.curtishots.com) before he goes back to work.
She loves to sleep like this.
Aliyah's 1st bath
This little outfit I thought for sure was going to be too small and is wayyyy to big, but she looks so cute in it anyways. :)
Grandma Mel & Austin playing with Aliyah
4 comments:
i am so glad to hear things are going well for you guys. she just looks precious. who do you think she looks most like? it's hard to tell in the pics.
She totally looks like Austin! But she has my lips. :)
aww well then she is a good mix of the 2 :) i wish i could see her!
How could she already be even cuter???
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