Two Weeks

Piper is two weeks old today.

Its wild how quickly she changes - just like everyone who's had a kid says. Last week she was all sleep. She'd mess up diapers, and yell to be fed, but the rest of the time she slept. This week she has times of wakefulness, where she just looks around. I'm no expert on the subject, but I think that she still can only make out things a few inches away, and still seems to be largely unaware of our attempts to entertain or interact with her, but its still pretty cool. She does seem to enjoy being read to. I've been reading out loud, and she seems to focus on me for brief periods.

Krissi is having trouble getting good rest. She is a very light sleeper, and Piper sometimes sleeps deeply and quietly, but other times makes tons of noise while she sleeps, or wants to be awake, and refuses to be put down to go to sleep. We've been working on getting naps in for Krissi when Piper is sleeping, with mixed results.

I'm back at work today, and next week. I'm so not ready to be away from my little family and my vacation. While to some extent, I welcome a return to some normalcy and a schedule, I so don't want to be away from that cute little baby, and being available to help Krissi, and- to be honest, sitting at home reading books, watching TV, and playing computer games. Its been a good two week vacation.

I wondered to myself why I've got two blogs. Who needs two blogs? And I thought about merging them into one, but I'll run with this for awhile. Its not like I've got a commercial blog and a personal one, or something. I dunno, at the time it seemed like a great idea to have them as separate entities.

I neglected to mention that at our doctors appointment the week after she was born, we got a clean bill of health, and weighed in at 8 pounds, 7 ounces. So we're well on our way to becoming a big fat baby, it looks like.