It is hard to believe that Evelyn was two weeks old yesterday! I feel like she is very "new", but the whole experience of her arrival is far in the past (thankfully=). It has been a wonderful two weeks in many ways.
Sleep has been hard to come by on most nights, but I find that, in the moment, I really do not mind being awoken by an adorable, soft, snugly baby who needs me. Evelyn is very snugly! She loves to be held or be worn in a wrap. She is a pretty content baby and smiles a lot in her sleep. So precious!
Unlike Nate, she requires extensive burping or will sometimes violently send everything she just drank right back up. Now that I have adjusted to her, I am usually able to take the necessary preemptive action.
She also is very vocal and grunts a lot. I have enjoyed figuring out what her various grunts mean. She has different ones for "I'm hungry", "I'm content", "Pick me up", "I have a burp", etc. My favorite one is...."This milk is so yummy!" We laugh about how she is "such a girl"...already trying to communicate constantly! So different from Nate, who even now does not talk much.
Nate loves his little sister! It is precious to see how attentive and gentle he is with her. If she starts squirming and talking in her bouncy chair, Nate runs to get me and points at her. He is very concerned if she is upset. He tries to show her his trucks and loves to point out her various body parts....hair, eyes, nose, ears, etc.
We have been reading lots of stories together. Or, more accurately, we have been reading a couple stories many times every day. When I sit down to nurse Evelyn, Nate does not want to be left out and reading is about the only thing I can do with him while nursing. I am glad that he likes to read! Having two children is so much more intense than having one!
My sister Patience is now living with us for the next six months and that has been a blessing already! Several people have brought us meals in the last week since my mom had to go back home. That has been very helpful and food always tastes better when someone else makes it!
Here are a few pictures. The first four were taken last week and the others are from this morning!
This is what happens when Nate is given a plate of stew. He picked up the plate and rubbed it over the top of his head. =) I knew it would be a mess, but it is difficult to nurse a baby and feed a toddler at the same time. I did not realize it would be quite this bad of a mess. Nothing an impromptu bath cannot cure though!
I love baby hands! She has very long fingers!
She seems to be awake a lot for a newborn! Supposedly newborns sleep 20 hours a day. There is no way she sleeps that much. During the day she has been awake more than she has slept.
All in all, we are enjoying being a family of four...and five if you count Paye!
