Mommy and the Girls

Yesterday was my first day all alone. It went fine. Sadie gets fussy when I put Betsy down for her nap--maybe she misses her sister? Katie came over in the afternoon to watch the girls and Lawson, because Attie and I had a MommyMixer event last night. Katie was brave to watch all three girls, but Marme was sick and couldn't make it. Luckily the boys were home not too long after we left. The Mixer went well. Betsy went to Jama and Pa's for dinner. Today Sam came over and I had my postpartum checkup and was able to do a couple of errands and Attie and I went to Amy's for manicures/pedicures this afternoon. Attie and Lawson hung out with us for a while this afternoon. Peter is working late tonight and both girls are asleep, but Sadie is starting to stir. Sadie slept last night from 10 until 2:30 (wow!!!) and then woke up at 530. Not too bad. My problem is that since Sadie is in our room I wake up every time she sneezes or snorts or moves. But I'm not ready to put her in the room with big sister yet. Sadie was wide awake today from 7 am until about 1:30. She's been napping a lot this afternoon/evening--I hope she sleeps tonight!


Betsy is still chatting away and asks me to do things like "Mommy, color Mickey Mouse's shoes yellow." She's very specific. She also talks about chocolate alot and is still saying "nope" constantly. Last night she was very eager to go to Jama's with Gumbo and stood by the door saying "ready to go! ready to go!" She picks out the same books for me to read her every day and says the name of the books and anticipates what will happen on each page. She is starting to randomly say strings of letters like "l,m,n,o,p" and "q,r,s,t,u,v." She likes to sit on Peter's back and say "giddyup." She likes to drop her toys from her highchair and say, "uh oh, cinderella fall down." She always tells me that she loves things like pizza and stickers (stickies). She's such a big girl.

I wanted to make a couple of notes to compare Sadie with Betsy when Betsy was 4 weeks old. Sadie weighs 8 lb, 8 oz. and B weighed 7 lb, 4 oz. Sadie seem so little, but she is not nearly as little as B was.


Here's Sadie at 4 weeks:



Here's Betsy at 4 weeks:




Here's Sadie at the hospital (about 10 hours old):



And here's Betsy (one day old):



Some days I think they look so much alike and other days I think they look totally different. In these pics I guess they look nothing alike. I'll have to do more pic reviewing to find ones where they look more alike, but I'm going to try to nap until Sadie wakes up.