Alison's Lessons - Week 9

Alison is such a great baby, she sleeps like a champ and is a wonderful eater too! I can not believe that nine weeks have flown by so quickly. Ali and daddy like to relax in the “kick it back” chair and watch the races at night when they can’t sleep… she is going to be a race car driver.

With Jared being in school a full day (8-3) and Gracee going to daycare on Tuesdays and Thursdays… me and Alison have plenty of bonding time. She sleeps a lot but when she is awake I stop what I am doing to play with her.

Alison went over 36 hours without having any poo in her diaper, she used to be a regular pooper… almost every diaper was full. I had to give her gas drops for the first time ever 8-20-09. It must have been something I ate – I had some stinky gas too!

Alison takes a tubby in the morning after Jared goes to school – she is still such a great sleeper I try to wait until she is awake enough to enjoy the bath time.

Everyone still says how much Alison looks like her daddy… well I saw a few newborn pictures of Jared last week and it is true she looks a lot like her brother did when he was a baby, but she looks a lot like Gracee to me to.

Ali still loves that swing, she falls asleep in it almost each night, and may rock until two in the morning or sometimes just sleeps in there.

Gotta love those big dimples – I have been seeing more of her eyes this week too and at night she is one happy baby, after the big kids take baths and are in bed she coos and talks all about the dreams she had during the day. Big smiles are the best.

Here is a break down of Alison’s day: wake up at 5:30am diaper change and nurse, sleep ‘til about 9:30am diaper change again then 5 oz bottle, stay awake for a little while, then take a bath around 10:45am and nurse again, then it is back to sleep in the swing ‘til almost two sometimes later. When Ali wakes up its to eat about 3 oz and then look around, she loves to stare at the bright lights and talk to her brother and sister, then it is naptime again around 6pm, she wakes up around 8pm for an hour or so and then change into PJs and she eats 6-7oz and TV time with dad. Sometimes she falls asleep and other times she wants to nurse and sit in the swing… her bedtime is anywhere from 10-11:30pm and we start again the next day.

Alison is growing so well she weighs 13lbs and is 24 ¼ tall. We took her to get shots today and she didn’t mind the first one… but the second made her scream for almost two min (until she feel asleep) Alison’s head is 41.9 cm and her temp was 96.6

Alison stayed over night with her Memaw Donna 8-21-09, she is such a mommy’s girl I got a text at about 10pm saying that she didn’t want the bottle. After a bath and the swing Ali feel asleep at 10:15pm and had to be woke up the next morning at 9:15.

I feel so lucky to be able to watch all my kids grow, Gracee is such a wonderful big sister… she loves to give SOFT kisses to baby Ali and Jared is one GREAT big brother, always likes to see his baby sister before he goes to kindergarten even if she is sleeping, he kisses her feet (he tells us that she LOVES that). Thanks for reading our blog and learning with us.