Crazy Love Gamble-Style

We are all about multitasking around here. You sort of have to be, if you are holding the baby you can bet Ava is going to need to sit on your lap too. Project Fattin ' Up Norah seems to be going well. This girl seems a bit happier now that we are totally ODing her on breast milk and formula. Both Martha & Julia stopped by for a visit over the weekend. Martha & Jessica even brought us lunch. Now that is our kind of visitors!! I even get a turn holding Miss Norah when we have guests, that is if she needs to be fed or changed. Little Miss Happy She really is a great big sister. She seems to enjoy all of Norah's toys far more then Norah does. Ava is full of energy and really needs out of the house. We decided to take her to Out of This World to run off some energy. Look how little she looks standing in line with the other kids: Out of pure coincidence we ran into Colton there! Ava was thrilled!! She loves these little scoot cars, too bad she has to go totally agains...

Yesterday Norah had a doctor's appointment. After her last check up the doctor showed concern over the lac of weight Norah had gained. At 2.5 weeks she weighed 6.5lbs (She was 6.7 at birth) In comparison Ava was 7.4lbs at birth and at 2 weeks she weighed 7.14. They should be gaining about an ounce a day at this age. So yesterday after I had spent a week trying to fatten her up she only weighed 6.6, she gained 1 ounce in a week instead of the 7 ounces they were hoping for. This is not good. So now after I feed her I have to give her formula & also pump each time to up my milk supply. We took her out to lunch after the appointment. She had a whole menu to choose from and she still wanted my milk so that is good right? Ava wasn't up for photos. Good thing Norah is too young to protest. I just hope with this new constant feeding schedule Norah will find her happy place. Maybe she was just mad she wasn't getting full enough?? She never really seems hungry after she eats ...

Norah spends the majority of her wakeful time doing this: She is a grumpy little baby. If she is not eating or being rocked back to sleep she is mad. In fact sometimes she is even mad while being rocked to sleep. And then if you are successful and get her to sleep she generally stays that way for about 2.5 minutes. And then the cycle starts over. Fun. We know this is a stage. Ava went through it full force. In fact I thought that meant we would get an easy baby this time since Ava was so challenging. Isn't that how things work? Apparently not. Oh well. At least we are seasoned professionals. We even know that someday there will be an end in sight, and someday she may be just as happy as her adorable big sister. In the mean time? Send help! And vodka, thanks. : )

My Brother Jeff & his beautiful girlfriend Fernanda are in town visiting, they live in Canada where they attend Trinity Western University . We all had dinner at The Spaghetti Factory this evening. Which for a camera-happy person like me, all I see is opportunity : ) We love Jeff, very nice to have him around, if only for a few days. Love this picture of Daddy & Ava Silly Gooses! Ava took this: We adore Fernanda, Jeff is a lucky man and we hope to keep her around for good! : ) On other family matters we found out today Chris & D'Auna are having a girl! We are beyond excited to add another girl to the bunch! Norah & Ava are going to have so much fun with their new little cousin. Can't wait to dress her too, she is one lucky girl coming from a good line of adorable hand-me-downs : )

Here are some pictures of Norah's first bath. In truth I was less then excited to give her a bath. Ava's first bath I was excited about and that ended in both of us in tears. Thankfully Norah did much better & I kept my expectations nice and low. : ) My grumpy little baby relaxed a bit in the warm water. She cried when I washed her face & when I got her out and she got cold but that is pretty much to be expected. I wrapped her up in her appropriate little monster towel. : ) She is a pretty cute little monster! When it was all said and done she got to do her favorite little monster thing to do, eat. Since I decided to share a picture of me feeding her I might as well show you one more, my favorite one. Look at her little hands! She is so sweet it just about kills me. I need these sweet little moments, she truly is a pretty grumpy baby so I will take any of the happy moments I can get : )

There is not really a lot going on over here. This one is keeping us pretty busy. Sleep, scream, eat...repeat. This one has been pretty helpful, sort of. We have had some cute little visitors. On nice days we have ventured out a bit... Linda joined us for many strolls around the block, sometimes on the scooter... Sometimes on the trike. We had stop for a break so Ava could take a phone call, She is very busy you know... We love Linda! We had a great weekend! We got to enjoy Bayli's company, she is super helpful with both Ava & Norah. We are trying to figure out a way to adopt her... Saturday night we had a nice dinner over at Linda's house and last night we went to my Mom's house for a little family gathering. Good times : ) This week we are going to work on getting out of the house a bit more, that is generally how I keep my sanity. Things are a bit trickier with an unpredictable baby but we will work it out : )

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