6 weeks

Ailish Sinead

6 weeks

Perfectly content

Sleeping peacefully

Beautiful eyes

Precious baby

Loved by all

ladybug girls

1 month

Sweet baby girl.... how are you already 1 month old?

You now fit in your "coming home" outfit perfectly, you are still wearing newborn sizes for the most part, with a couple 0-3 outfits mixed in. 

You marked your 1-month mark by having to visit the doctor's office, again, and get an antibiotic shot since your culture they took last week came back with both strep and staf infections :-( - since it seems rather likely you got this from a sibling who have all had colds lately, we had everyone checked and everyone got "the shot" - everyone did wonderfully, considering the shot itself is rather painful

You are becoming more and more alert to activity around you, and laying on mama's chest is your favorite position to be held in

We love you little Ailish!

playground fun

Fun at the playground the other day - both boys can now do the monkey bars really well. Tadhg has no fear and climbs everything and slides without hesitation. He was very proud of himself for climbing to the top of the steps in the last picture. 

4 weeks

Ailish Sinead

4 weeks

This week you got your first cold. Not fun. Especially in one so little.

We visited the dr on Wed and started you on breathing treatments at home.

You are seeming to be a bit better day by day, chest-y coughs and stuffy noses are just not fun when you are so little. 

getting a breathing treatment

You are still nursing well and gaining weight, so that's good. You are sleeping good as well. Just today I got out the miracle blanket swaddler and you love it and I have put you down to sleep awake a couple times and you have drifted off on your own, I won't complain if you keep that up! 

This week you weighed 8 pounds even at the dr's. It was the same day you got a new cousin, Ryan, who weighed in at 8 pounds, 4 ounces. So even with a 3 1/2 week head start, you are still smaller ;-) 

3 weeks

This week you weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces. 

The dr was very impressed with your weight gain... you gained almost an ounce a day! 

You continue to be loved by all and eat and sleep quite nicely.

You are starting to take the pacifier a bit more, if left to yourself you tend to get your fingers quite easily ;-)

while making your birth announcement this week, I realized you and Alannah look more alike then I thought. 

And you are both wearing the same outfits in your birth announcement photo!

I also attempted a group photo this week - this was the best one...... 

not the easiest group to get looking good at the same time! 

2 weeks

Sweet little girl, are you really 2 weeks old already? 

You are settling into life nicely, quite a contented baby right now. 

You nurse every 2-4 hours around the clock, usually doing one long stretch at night of at least 4 hours, though you've done closer to 6 more then once (but I won't get too used to that yet!)

You are sleeping well, I often wake you during the day after a 3 hour nap

You love to be swaddled

You don't really care for changing diapers or outfits

You are still in newborn sizes, though the couple preemie outfits I have didn't fit you at all

At 10 days you weighed 7 pounds, 6.4 ounces and 21 inches long and in perfect health according to the dr!

Your siblings all love you, even Tadhg is smiling and loving on you now, a week ago he was pretty much just not paying much attention at all. 

Alannah is calling all her babies Ailish right now, and is often seen carrying a baby and a blanket around

We love you little girl!