Week 6

6 Weeks old on 12/26/08

Embry is 6 weeks old today, the day after her first Christmas!  This past week has been quite interesting for Embry.  She is sleeping a lot less than she was originally which caused us to try and figure out what to do with a baby while they are awake.  Before we'd change her, feed her, and put her back in her crib every 3 hours then she'd sleep for another 3 hours or so and we'd do it all over again.  Now at night that's still the routine, but in the daytime she is generally awake after feedings and she'll cry if you put her down in the crib.  This can either bring on insanity when she's crying to no avail, or sheer joy when she's content and will cuddle.  

Her first Christmas was good.  She was happy for the most part while we were opening presents.  Before that I was here with her while the family was at a church service and she cried for about an hour straight.  Nothing would soothe her until finally I decided to feed her and then she calmed down.  Anyhow, she got lots of neat things including a piggy bank, a learning to talk dvd, a kitty outfit, a pack of 4 Skippy Jon Jones board books (amazing!), a big stuffed bear, a stuffed tigger, and a stuffed lion toy.  We got to take some family pictures in front of the Christmas tree and pictures of each person holding Embry too.  She got one outfit change midday because we had 2 'Baby's First Christmas' outfits...she was so cute dressed in her Christmas outfits.  We looked through old pictures from the basement later on in the day and Embry definitely has Tony's forehead.  So all in all she's doing well although she has a really nasty diaper rash that we're working on getting rid of.  From the pictures I looked up online and talking to the on call nurse today it appears that it's a yeast infection.   I feel so bad for her, it's got to hurt a lot!  Hopefully it will go away soon.  

Have I mentioned that diapers are insanely expensive?!