Natalie - Four Weeks

Natalie was four weeks old on July 10th.  Here's a recap of week four in pictures.


We celebrated the 4th of July!  Happy birthday, America!!


Sisters!


Sisters again - now you can see Caitlin's 4th of July shirt!


Snoozing in the rock n play.  I love how big your belly looks!


Snoozing again!


You met Aunt Becky!


All stretched out.


You made funny faces.


You took your first bath in the baby tub.


Snoozing in our bed.

Natalie - Three Weeks

Natalie was three weeks old on July 3rd!  Here's recap of week 3 in pictures!


This is the only onesie that I bought for her while I was still pregnant.  She only got to wear it once before she grew out of it!


This one is for Aunt Alexis.  :) I think I actually bought this onesie for Leah when she was a newborn.


Seriously, the hand behind the ear?


Sometimes we were nice and let her arms loose when we swaddled her.  She didn't seem to mind too much.

Hanging with proud big sister!


Yay!  An eyes open picture.


She looks so sad in this one.  It's a rough life.


She did this all herself.


Snoozing on my legs.

Middle of the night picture.


Ruffle butt!


Tummy time.  Not very successful.  Good thing she's so cute.  And, oh those forehead wrinkles!

Another week with just a little more awake time.  Also, her last week wearing newborn clothes.

Natalie - Two Weeks

Natalie turned two weeks old on June 26th.


Hanging out in the pack n play, giving me a wave.


Snoozing in the rock n play.


Snoozing on the deck.  She loves being outside.


She loves having her hands up by her head.


Snoozing in the sun per doctors orders (for the jaundice).  She woke up shortly after this crying because she was too hot.  You can go ahead and hand over the Mom of the Year award right now.


Zero month pictures at 2 weeks.  Technically, she is still zero months old!


A picture with Mr. Bear.  She looks thrilled, right?


Arms above the head again.


An outing with Mommy. I think we were going to the doctor.


A sponge bath in the sink.  It went a little better this time.


Snoozing again.


A close-up of my sleeping beauty.


Life is so rough that she even falls asleep on the changing table. Big sister did this too.


Yay, an awake picture even though she has her tongue out!


My tie-dye baby.


All curled up.  Love her face in this one.


Meeting Mom-Mom.


Meeting Aunt Maryann.


Snoozing while we had dinner with Mom-Mom and Aunt Maryann.


Baby stretches and funny faces.


Had to end with another snoozing picture because she definitely spent lots of time sleeping again this week!

Natalie - One Week

Natalie was one week old on June 19th!  I did weekly posts with Caitlin, so I am going to do my best to do the same with Natalie.  Clearly, I'm a bit late on this, but I'm working to get caught up.  I think these will be mostly just photo dumps, but still fun to see how she grows and changes each week!


Snoozing at the hospital - pretty sure this was her position when she was in the womb because it is one of her favorites.


Snoozing on the boppy (she put her arms like this all on her own).


Still snoozing in the hospital.  Are you sensing a theme here?


Snoozing in the bassinet at the hospital.


Baby yawns... because, you guessed it, she was tired!


Our first picture as a family of four.  I look a little crazy (probably because I was still in shock that we have 2 girls now), but I love it!  And Natalie is even awake!!

Waiting for transport after being discharged.  I had to take this picture because I have a similar one of Ryan with Caitlin here. 

 

Ready to go home. 

 

A picture with Mommy and Daddy.  See the link above for a similar picture with Caitlin. 

 

Snoozing in Grandmom's arms at home.  

 

Not sure what she's doing here, I guess just stretching, but I thought it was funny.  

 

First dinner on the deck.

A middle of the night picture.  She wanted something to suck on, and being oh so prepared, I didn't have any pacifiers (and I kind of wanted to wait anyway), so I somehow got her thumb in her mouth.  She wasn't complaining.  Pretty sure she'll be a thumb sucker just like her big sister! 

Hanging out on the deck again, but this time, Caitlin wanted to share Bubby with her.  So sweet.


Meeting Aunt Alexis.


More snoozing.


Meeting Granddad.


Leah was THRILLED to hold baby At-a-yie (Natalie).


Sisters!


Cousins.  Love these girls, and I can see the three of them being troublemakers once Natalie is a little older.


Another of the sisters.


Trying to get her hand in her mouth.  She wasn't very successful.


Daddy with his girls on Father's Day.


First sponge bath.  Clearly, she wasn't thrilled.


More proof that she didn't love it.


All better.


First doctors appointment. She was 7 lbs. 13 oz. She came home from the hospital at 7 lbs. 11 oz.


And then, just like big sister, we had to take a trip over to Howard County General Hospital to have her bilirubin levels checked because Dr. M was worried about jaundice.  Her levels were ok, but we were instructed to keep feeding her every 2-3 hours and make sure that she was pooping and peeing a lot and then also to let her get some sun.  The thing on her foot was warming it up to get the blood flowing.


Oh, life is so hard.


First Under Armour outfit!  Thanks, Ms. Jen!


Showing us those eyes.


Snoozing on my legs.  Look at those rolls!


Snoozing on Daddy.


And, snoozing in the pack and play.

So, to sum things up, she spent her first week meeting new people, eating, pooping/peeing and snoozing a lot!