Little Miss 2 Weeks Old

Little Miss is 2 weeks old. Hard to believe it's been 14 days, and at the same time, it's hard to believe it's only been 14 days since she came into our world (and FOREVER changed it!). 

I know when you are with someone everyday it's hard to see how they've changed, but I am sure of it today. She seems bigger (as she should be). 

I remember holding other people's newborns and being terrified. I had no idea how to hold them or what to do with them. But now that we have Sofia, I don't feel so clueless or scared. And while I am still clueless to certain aspects of parenting and caring for a new little one (isn't every new parent?), caring for Sofia feels like it comes a bit naturally. And it's not hard to get in a routine with a little one - they don't need too much, just the same thing over and over. 

Here's the update about Sofia:

• She sleeps. A lot. 
• There are a couple nights she's slept for about 3 hour stints between nursing. This is amazing for Mom and Dad. We wake up feeling pretty rested. 
• Sofia is pretty calm (usually) on the changing table. (Except when she's in the middle of a poop session... then things get interesting... and hysterically funny - like pee in your pants funny ;) 
• Speaking of poop (sorry Sofia, someday you'll ask me why in the world I had to publish poop stories about you in the internet!) Sofia's been nicknamed the Poop Machine, and her father has quite the poopy time song for her. 
• We love her yawn. (See photo below, you'll understand.) It's the most contagious yawn ever. Seth and I both yawn instantly when we see her yawn (I literally can't even look at the photo of her yawning without yawning myself). 
• She makes so many faces when she's done eating and when she's sleeping. (See photos below.) 
• She likes to be held out and bounced a bit. It soothes her when she can't eat immediately.  
• Lights attract her. The sunlight coming in from the window, the lamp hooked to the back of the bed for night time feeding, the light hanging from the ceiling. 
• Sometimes she gets really impatient when she isn't fed immediately. She shakes her little arms and shoves her hands into her mouth and begins sucking viciously. Then when she finally gets what she wants, she sucks viciously until she realizes she's gotten what she wants! 
• After her bath, Sofia's hair is all curls. It turns to waves and is the soft baby hair pretty quickly. Then it turns oily (like her parents' hair) after a day or two. We think it's getting lighter, and we are sure there is a copper tint to it. 
• Sofia is a noisy baby when she sleeps (maybe this is a norm for babies... If so, I had no idea.) She makes lots of little noises as she sleeps. One night, I thought she even said, "Hi" and the other night, she said "Uh uh" at a perfect moment that made it sound like she was sticking up for her father when he was (jokingly) accused of something by her grandma. Some nights we panic a little to the noises. Seth and I will fly up out and peek over the side of her little bassinet to check on her. 
• We've gotten our sleeping situation squared away. We bought a co-sleeper bassinet that sits in our bed between us (so thankful we got a King size bed). She usually falls asleep on my chest after nursing, and I easily move her into her little sleeping space where she snoozes until she starts giving us her little cues that she's hungry again. Sometimes, if she's stuffed up and mama's too tired to be up with her, her father will take her and sleep with her upright on his chest for a while. Since we have a pillow top mattress that is WAY too soft for a baby to sleep on, and Seth and I can't quite get enough sleep spending the whole night with her on our chests, this co-sleeper bassinet is perfect for us. Eventually she'll move to her crib (which has one side down and will be placed right next to my side of the bed for easy night nursing access), but it's just so big right now and she's so tiny (plus both Seth and I like to be able to easily check on Sofia). 
• Sofia went through a growth spurt. She spent the other night and all of the next day eating every 45 minutes to an hour. Her mama was exhausted! Good thing not every day is a growth spurt!!

*These photos were taken when she was 12 days old :)