"The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with joy." Psalm 126:3

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Short Update

Brielle is doing great!!  She is seriously the best baby.  After having 2 babies with reflux, it is so fabulous to have a baby that I can lay flat in her crib.  She sleeps like a dream - I have to wake her from most of her naps.  She takes 3 naps 2-2 1/2 hours long and one catnap.  She then sleeps from 7:30pm to 7:30am minus a "dreamfeed" Jeff does with a bottle of pumped breastmilk at 10pm.  We follow the Babywise system and it has always worked well for us.  We are about to drop the dreamfeed in the next week, hopefully, so she will be sleeping for 12 hours and we can have our evenings back!!

Breastfeeding has also been a dream.  She is eating on one side only per feed and it takes her around 8-12 minutes!!  I have oversupply issues, but once those got worked out it has been fabulous.  She still gags and chokes on one side every now and then, but she is getting used to the fast flow.

Brielle is unlike my other two girls in that she is in the 90+ percentile in height and weight.  She weighed 13lbs 10 oz at her 2 month checkup.  Oh my goodness!!

She is a super happy baby.  I say she just sleeps, eats, smiles, and poops.  That's about it!!  Ha.  Sadie and Keller are loving her.  It is so fun to see them sing to her and read to her.  They both love helping her with her bath too.  Their adjustment has been great.

Keller is potty trained.  Don't know how I managed that one with a newborn, but I was motivated to not have 2 in diapers!!  She still is wearing training underwear (padded underwear) as she can tend to forget here and there, but she only wears pull-ups for nighttime and naps.  I'll work on that one later! : )

Jeff lost his job right before Christmas, so you can be praying for us.  Hopefully, he will land somewhere soon.  It put a bit of a damper on our holiday, but God is always good and SO amazingly faithful!!  He went before us (as He always does) earlier this year by providing a huge check through Jeff's invention of the PowerCurl at Quirky, which went directly into our emergency savings.  So incredibly grateful for God's provision.

A few pictures... hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a happy New Year!!