In love

We are so in love with our daughter Lelu. She is such a sweetheart. Time is already flying by quickly. She has been sleeping as long as 3 1/2 hrs at a time and as short as 1 hour. She's also sleeping in her co-sleeper and crib! My recollection of Luka was that he would only sleep in bed next to me or in his bouncy chair. This has allowed me to get pretty good sleep each night so far.

When she is awake, she is very alert. She seems happy hangin out pretty much anywhere and we often are listening to music just staring at each other. :) Mommy's milk came in on day 4 and Lelu is breastfeeding well. She lost about 6 oz this week, but now that my milk is in, I am pretty confident we'll plump her right up.

She seems to only really cry when she is hungry and it doesn't last long.

Today we went for our first walk. The weather was perfect...sunny, 60s with a little wind. Lelu slept the entire time. Even though I was walking as slow as a turtle, I feel that my body is healing and starting to feel like normal. The motrin is helping too, but I'm hoping to stop taking that after week 1.

There have been some nice moments between Luka and Lelu so far: story time, Luka rushing through the door asking to see his baby sister when he gets home from preschool, Luka helping change her diaper, and Luka requesting to have a birthday party for his baby sister. Otherwise drop off at preschool in the morning and bedtime in the evening have been quite challenging. Tim and I are trying to remain patient and optimistic reminding ourselves that he is going through a lot and it will all get better soon.