We've been taking lots of pictures lately around the house and decided we should update the blog with them so everyone else could enjoy them as well. Cassidy is growing like crazy (I realized this when I looked back at picture of her in her carseat coming home from the hospital). Cassidy will be four weeks old tomorrow and we are finally starting to get a handle on things. We're still getting up plenty in the middle of the night, but she's getting better at falling back to sleep after eating which is a huge blessing and two nights in a row she only got up twice (never mind bedtime was late, but we're thankful for a stretch of 3 hours of sleep these days)
Cassidy enjoys her naps during the day and is pretty content almost anywhere, we're lucky to have such a good baby.
The umbilical cord finally fell off (yes it can fall off in more than one piece by the way-it took Cassidy's three pieces to be gone) so we got a real bath. It was an adventure for all of us, but we did it. Cassidy didn't mind the tub, she was sort of indifferent to it-no opinion either way. It was nice to have four hands to do the bath because it's tricky to bath them and I wasn't really looking forward to doing it alone. Cassidy had other plans 2 days later though when she decided to spit up all of her "meal" over both of us while Brian was at work. So another bath it was and I did it alone. I felt like it was a huge step for me. (thanks Kim for helping me through that tough day)
We decided to let Cassidy try to sit in the baby bumbo-she's not a fan yet, but boy does she have great control over her head. The other night she was doing tummy time and even managed to scoot herself across the floor a bit. We're sure her "finger toes" helped out a bit.
This is Cassidy at 3 weeks with the Bear her Bakka gave her, it will be fun to see how much she grows by comparing her to the bear.
Some nights are long and rough in the Gerken household, so we all need to make sure we get our naps when we can!
Tuesday Cassidy has a doctor's appointment so we'll update after that. We're excited to see how big she is getting.
Cassidy enjoys her naps during the day and is pretty content almost anywhere, we're lucky to have such a good baby.
The umbilical cord finally fell off (yes it can fall off in more than one piece by the way-it took Cassidy's three pieces to be gone) so we got a real bath. It was an adventure for all of us, but we did it. Cassidy didn't mind the tub, she was sort of indifferent to it-no opinion either way. It was nice to have four hands to do the bath because it's tricky to bath them and I wasn't really looking forward to doing it alone. Cassidy had other plans 2 days later though when she decided to spit up all of her "meal" over both of us while Brian was at work. So another bath it was and I did it alone. I felt like it was a huge step for me. (thanks Kim for helping me through that tough day)
We decided to let Cassidy try to sit in the baby bumbo-she's not a fan yet, but boy does she have great control over her head. The other night she was doing tummy time and even managed to scoot herself across the floor a bit. We're sure her "finger toes" helped out a bit.
This is Cassidy at 3 weeks with the Bear her Bakka gave her, it will be fun to see how much she grows by comparing her to the bear.
Some nights are long and rough in the Gerken household, so we all need to make sure we get our naps when we can!
Tuesday Cassidy has a doctor's appointment so we'll update after that. We're excited to see how big she is getting.
Great pictures, thanks for sharing. trial and error is the story on bath time and helping any of our kids grow up even when they get older. You will look back and say wow this was easy!!!
ReplyDeleteYou are doing a great job. love you