New Life

So it has been two weeks and two days since Addison has been in our lives and things have been turned completely upside down in our lives (in a good way of course). My mom has been a huge help to us! She has done all of our laundry, cooked, cleaned, pretty much everything that I have not been able to do. I am not really aloud to do house work for 4 weeks (because of the c-section), so she took that over for me. She would watch the baby for Michael and me after a really long night so we could get some sleep. She was truly wonderful and made the transition a whole lot easier for us.

Now that she left, Michael and I need to establish a routine and some sense of "normal" to our lives again. Addi a really good baby. She can have her moments, but they usually don't last long. (I really hope I'm not jinxing things). She is pretty good at night as well...we can get three to four hours of sleep out of her, but some nights it's really hard to get her to fall asleep after a feeding (even though she falls asleep ALL OF THE TIME while feeding). Michael has been a huge help to me! He will sleep while I'm feeding her, change her diaper in the middle to wake her up, go back to sleep, then wake back up to rock her to sleep so I can sleep. He has helped keep me sane in the middle of the night...actually all of the time! He is my rock and I am so thankful for him!

Addi is the most beautiful baby I have ever seen in my life. She makes me feel so many things at one time...scared, happy, love, clueless, and so much more that I can't even think of the words for. I love her more every day. I love when she smiles, even though she doesn't really smile because of us yet (I am counting down the days until she does). It still melts my heart! But it also breaks my heart when she cries and I can't tell why. I have started to learn the difference between hungry crying and tired crying, but we still have a lot to learn about each other. And, I'm looking forward to every minute of it!