Life Goes On

Mattie Anne is 7 weeks old today. Just one more week before the dreaded shots! It is amazing how much she has grown and how alert she can be. She started rolling over, and of course, I missed the first time. I put her down in the craddle on her stomach and went into the kitchen to do something. She started to cry so I went to check on her and she was on her back! I put her back on her stomach to see if she would do it again and she did! This got me all excited so I got the video camera out, well by the time that I had the first roll filmed she had done it probably 7 times and was not happy about it anymore. So as you will see in the video, she is crying, but at least it is on video! Her other trick is standing...no not completely by herself, but pretty close! She has amazingly strong legs! She will lock them out and almost stand on her own, we just have to support her for balance. We will have to try and get that on video soon!






It seems like the question I am asked most is if I'm getting any sleep. Well, I am getting more than I thought I would! Since about 2-3 weeks old I was only having to get up once during the night. The past 2 weeks she has been sleeping between 6-7 hours straight! I usually feed her around 9 and she will wake up between 3:30 and 5:00 am. What is even better about this feeding is that she will eat for 5-10 minutes and go right back to sleep so I can usually get back to bed fairly quickly because I get up between 5:30 and 6:30 on days that I go to work. Then at the 6:00-6:30 feeding she will eat for a while and stay awake. This past week she went a couple of days where she would wake up at 2:00 and then every two hours until 10 and she was hungary! I assume it was a growth spurt because she has now fell back into her old routine. She pretty much stays close to her routine which is: 6:00 am, 8:30 am, 11:00 am, 2:00 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:00 pm, and then whenever she wakes during the night. Hopefully soon she will drop the night feeding and go from 9:00 pm to 5:30 am, I'll let ya know when that happens! BabyWise says that they can start sleeping through the night as early as 6-8 weeks but usually by 10-12. We will see when Mattie Anne chooses to do that! I feel that I'm lucky enough to only have to wake up once during the night!

I mentioned earlier that I was going back to work. I started 2 weeks ago, but only went in Thursday and Friday of those weeks. I am taking off today of this week but am aiming to go in the rest of the week, but nothing is etched in stone. Mattie Anne goes to work with me right now! I don't want to put her in daycare until she has her shots. She sits in her infant seat on my desk all day, the women in the office love it! She is fun to have around, and has only inturrpted a few phone conversations with fussing. Starting back part time and taking Mattie Anne with me is a really easy way to get back into the swing of work. It isn't as bad as I thought it would be. The mornings can be hetic, but once we get to work and get all set up it goes pretty smoothly and it is nice to be back around everyone at work.

Not much else is going on in our lives. Matt is doing his Physicatric rotation this month, not his favorite so far, but at least he doesn't have to work weekends. He was able to go to the Kansas City Chiefs game yesterday. He was invited to go with a man from our church who is a politician in Kansas City, so he sat on the 17th row for part of the game and in a box for the other part. Pretty good deal for his first NFL game!

Matt's parents (GP and BB) came into town last week. I felt lucky because I was able to spend all day with them and Matt had to work. The pictures of Mattie Anne in her red jogging suit (from Nana) are from when we went to the park jogging, isn't she adorable. Mattie Anne loves going jogging! Matt and I have started jogging regulary now. His parents jog regularly and when they were up hear they got me out jogging and I realized that I really like it. So, now that Mr. Bill and Mrs. Brenda are gone I make Matt jog with me. He isn't the happiest about my new found love!


Here are some pictures from GP and BB's visit!