First doctor appointment and real bath

Addie had her first doctor's appointment today, her two week checkup. It's common for babies to lose weight their first week, but hopefully regain it and be back at their birth weight by their 2 week checkup. Addie is doing quite well because she now weighs almost a full pound more than she did when she was born, so that's great news. Here are her stats:

Birth stats: 7 pounds 6 ounces, 20 inches

Stats today: 8 pounds 4 ounces, 21.5 inches

She is 75th percentile for weight and head measurements and 95th percentile for height (must be those long hot dog legs).

Her umbilical cord finally fell off 2 days ago, so she was able to get her first real bath today (we did a spongey bath the other day, but it didn't work out all that well). Here are some pics:

Look at her adorable belly button! It's a swirl, like a little belly button cinnamon roll.




Here she's sporting her bath towel that Nicole made for her, thanks nicole!

2 weeks old!

Little Addie is 2 weeks old and will have her first doctor checkup tomorrow. She has been just the sweetest baby- I couldnt ask for an easier or happier baby to care for.

She must love me tons because there have been a couple of nights already when she's slept nearly 7 hours straight during the night. She has a pretty regular night time schedule so far, so it's nice that we can more or less plan when she'll need to eat and when she'll sleep. She sleeps with me in bed some of the time, but in general she sleeps in her bassinet next to our bed.

Feeding continues to go really well. She's never had anything other than breastmilk and she seems to be quite the eating champ. She gets a bit more playful at night time and enjoys playing around instead of eating- but other than that, we're both doing quite well with the whole arrangement. I'm still trying to figure out how to discretely feed her in public, but I'm not too good at it yet. Modesty definitely seems to be more trouble than its worth when it comes to feeding an infant.

As for her temperament, she's very chill and happy. She makes the cutest faces all the time, and she definitely loves to play with her hands. She also loves to have her arms over her head as much as possible. She's only ever actually cried for longer than 40 seconds two times: one during her first bath, the other when her diaper was getting changed and she was too cold. Usually she just makes some squeaky noises to let us know it's time to eat or if her diaper needs to be changed. During the day she sleeps for 2-4 hours, then is awake and bright-eyed and looks around and cuddles with us for an hour or two.

She's still pretty small and doesnt fit into normal 0-3 month outfits yet. My mom was way nice and bought her a few more newborn onesies so she'd have more than 3 outfits that fit. She looks so cute in everything she wears, I have a hard time not doing daily photoshoots.

I just love her with my whole heart and she makes me so happy and proud. My days are spent staring at her, petting her head, and telling her how fabulous she is. Sam is still being the perfect husband and father. He's so cute with her and I can tell that Addie totally loves her daddy. He's way sweet about changing diapers and holding the baby or doing things for me while I'm holding her; he just makes me so happy.

Though we already have more pics that aren't up yet, I did manage to put up a new album of pics on the picasa page, here are some of the highlights:



Her fussy face.


Her first bath, look how tiny she is!




Sam with little lady.

Visit from Grandma Ball

My mom was able to come and visit from the 1st until the 6th. It's been a while since I got to spend much time with my mom, so it was nice having her down here. She got plenty of good cuddle time in with Addie and kept her occupied while I did things like shower or clean, so that was way helpful. My mom was way nice and sewed Addie a great new blanket and sewed me a fancy nursing cover. Moral to the story?: Mom's are great.

More pictures up

Her first week of pics are up. Click on the pic below to see them.


Cassie bought lady this cute little outfit, I had no choice but to take some pics of it.

On our babymoon

       What is a babymoon you may ask? It is the time after a new little one is born when you just sit around staring at the beautiful, perfect little angel that is gracing you with its presence. It's the time before the strange sleeping schedules and baby demands catch up with you and you start wondering when the real parents going to come pick the baby up and take it away for a few days to give you a break.
       My mom doesnt get here until tonight, and Sam's parents get here this weekend, so it's just been our cute little family here at home this last week and it's been surprisingly chill and blissful.
       I just grow more and more in love with Little Adelaide every day. We call her either Adelaide, Addie, Lady, little lady, or Ladybug. She's such a sweet baby and is so good to us. She hasnt ever cried for longer than 40 seconds, is easily calmed, eats like a champ, and just generally does all she can to make being new parents easy on us.
       As for me, I've been nearly completely healed from the birth for the last 3 days or so. I'm just dealing with some minor swelling, but nothing that is too uncomfortable at all. My boobs were insane when my milk came in, but that discomfort only lasted for 2 days, now my chest is back to a happy, normal-proportioned status. Also, i've lost 23 pounds now, so that's good news. Every day I wake up to a smaller, tighter tummy- it's great.
       Feeding has gone extremely well; she wakes up every 2-4 hours, makes snarky squeak noises to let us know she's hungry, then she eats for 10-30 minutes and either goes back to sleep, or has some quality "staring at mom" time. She makes just the cutest faces and squeaky noises, she totally melts my heart.
       Sam is a very good daddy. Even though he cant feed her, he does a great job of soothing her when she starts to get squirmy/fussy. He's such a great help and I just love him times ten. He's been able to work from home all week so it's been great having him here with me all day.
       I keep waiting for everything to start sucking. I know it will come; there's no way that we'll get off the hook this easily. But honestly, this last week with Addie has been the best week of my life. I am excited to spend every day with her and see what she will do. Yes, I have to wake up every 3-4 hours at night to feed her and I am dead tired when I do so, but I can't hardly complain about that when I know it could be so much worse. The days are just delightful though. She's just happy and cute all day long. When she's sleeping I get to play on the laptop with her cuddled up next to me, or I put her in her swing and I take a shower, clean the house, or do whatever else I want to do to pass the time. When she's awake, she just sits there and stares and us and makes cute faces. What more could parents ask for?
       So perhaps you can all remind me of this post in 2 weeks when she's awake more and crying and driving us crazy... but until then- we are two very happy (though slighty tired) parents. Here are some pics I've taken of her the last few days:
Here she is wearing her "Born to be spoiled" shirt that my neighbor megs gave to us. I usually hate print tees with sayings on them, but this one is just way cute on her.

Little photoshoot

My mom crocheted this outfit and I knew that Addie wouldn't fit in it for very long, so we did a little photoshoot today. Click on the pic to see the rest.




Look at her little hotdog legs!

More pics added to the web album

Go check out the new pics we added at http://picasaweb.google.com/LoriBurkman/PresentingAdelaideScarlettBurkman

Here are the best new pics:

This is the better quality shot of her opening her eyes for the first time. Honestly, I see this and my heart just goes back to that moment and melts.

Her coming home from the hospital outfit.



I know I'm biased because I'm her mother, but honestly- is she not the cutest newborn ever?!