6/7 weeks...

Zuri is almost 7 weeks old.

Her sleep pattern at night (again, knock on wood) has been pretty consistent. From her last feeding to when she wakes up is about 6 hours. I feed her anywhere between 9:15 and 10:00, depends if I have practice or not. Then she will wake between 3:45-500am to eat. With a wake up for the day around 7:30-8:00. Which is fine, except that her napping skills are non-existent. I read that babies this age sleep around 14-15 hours a day, with about three naps. Good luck with that. Probably why she is so cranky during the day, because she is tired.

We had our first crying dinner the other night at Red Robin. Thankfully, the restaurant is loud so her noise was masked a bit. This was a day where she didn't nap ALL day, which then made putting her to bed an even bigger chore because she was so overtired.

She is getting so big that a lot of the newborn clothing we have is too small (pants) or getting tight. She fits much better in the 0-3 month stuff, not the 3 month clothing. Her 0-3 month pajamas that we like (zip ones) are all just perfect on length, so they may not last too long.

My mom got a vibrating chair, that doesn't turn off and you can bounce it, this is the only place I can get her to sit for any amount of time. However, I have to be bouncing it to keep her happy.



A happy baby (after a nap and eating)



Napping in her other vibrating chair however, it turns off and she ALWAYS wakes up when it stops


Her first restaurant review

Happy 1st Valentines Day!

Zurianna's first Valentine was from her Dad. He bought her a card and a nice little outfit. I wanted to post some pictures of her first Valentines day, but also a few others that I have that I like.

Loving the smile (wearing her present from dad!)


Nap time!





Daughter and Daddy in Patriots gear (too bad it was a bad day for the Patriots!)


One of my favorite outfits (picture taken at 10 days old)


Love this one too, looks like a little sailor with the hat! (also taken around 10 days old)

4 weeks old!

I can't believe that Zuri is already a month old! Seems like I had her forever ago, but yet it seems like it hasn't been a month.

Week four has brought a more happy Zurianna. She hasn't been as fussy as she has been. I know this can change at any moment, but I will take what I can get. Having a normal baby, in terms of fussiness seems really easy now. This last week I have felt like it was way easier than what I was dealing with before. Our nights have gone pretty good. Last night she slept for 5.5 hours and then 3 hours between feeding times, so sleep time is different depending on how long she eats and how long it takes me to make sure she is asleep before putting her back to bed. The night before was not as good, but she has been sleeping longer intervals at night, which is very nice. The only downside is that in the morning at about 700am she is pretty much up for the day. Usually after the early morning feed, she will lay back down, but then she wakes up about an hour later. Lately, she has laid in her cradle talking to herself for a good 30-45 minutes before she wants me to get her.

She has also been smiling a lot this week. In general she has just seemed a lot happier. Now, don't get me wrong she has the crying moments, like all babies. But they haven't been ALL day (knock on wood). Today she was in a good mood so I wanted to go to the store, I put her in her carseat and she immediately started crying. I don't know why, since she loves the car! But she cried for about 15 minutes before she fell asleep in the car. I had to drive squares around the grocery store because I didn't want to be that person that bring in a crying baby. It's one thing if she starts crying while I am in the store, but bringing IN a crying baby, might be a bit much.

She still does not enjoy her bath. She SCREAMS so loud. I'm sure someone is going to call child services on me, it sounds like I am hurting her! I keep telling her that someday she will be mad because if she is anything like her parents, she will love to shower and we will have to limit her shower time!

On a funny note, people ask me what I call her, if I have a cute nickname for her. Totally cracks me up when I see the face of the people when I tell them I call her "Dragon." They think it is going to be some sweet little girl nickname. Nope, DRAGON. I explain about her fussiness, but she also makes A LOT of noise when she sleeps. She growls, grunts and makes so many noises that frequently I am not sure if she is awake or asleep.

She definitely doesn't look like a newborn anymore. She has longer amounts of time when she is awake and longer stretches of sleep at night. If I were to guess, she weighs about 9 lbs now and she is so long that she has grown out of some of her pants and some tops/onesies are too short now. She has moved up to 0-3 month pajamas the newborn ones were so short she couldn't extend her legs completely. She wears the zipper pajamas because it makes it easy for me to change her at night.

This weekend has gone pretty well. It is my long weekend of being a single parent because Pedro works Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Which means that I really haven't seen him because I have lessons that I have to do and he goes and works out and then is home for a bit before he goes back to work. Monday he sleeps in until the afternoon and since we go to bed (or start trying to go to bed) at about 900, it makes for another short day for him to see Zuri.

Zuri also went to her first basketball lesson with me, I didn't have a sitter and Pedro worked so she came with me. She was very good and slept the whole time. I read once that whatever noises she hears when you are pregnant will not disturb her when she is an infant and that has definitely been the case. She doesn't even move when she is asleep at basketball games and people are yelling! The other first was that Zuri started wearing shoes this week. She wore some white boots, pink sneakers and a pair of knitted boots that one of my friends Melissa gave us (along with a cute hat).

Trying to catch her smiling :)


Love the shoes!





A few baptism pictures:


With the Godparents:


With Zuri's Great Grandma Topper (Funny that we call her Topper after a dog that she had a long time ago! Dog lovers!)

3 Weeks Old!!

We are almost 4 weeks old and we have has quite a long week 3. Pedro went back to work and Zuri decided that she was going to be a big DRAGON! Our weekend was very long, with very little to no sleep. She decided that she was going to scream (literally scream) any time I laid her down. Which meant that I had to hold her all day long. Even then, sometimes she was still unhappy. Our nights were not much better. She cried, I fed her, I got her to sleep, I laid her down and she would wake up and scream again. I was very tired. She had been such a "good" sleeper at night before this, then Pedro goes to work and I am left being a single parent for three plus days. I totally give credit to single parents. If you have a colicky baby like Zuri, it is way more difficult, because you know there is no break in sight. I know this time will pass, but I am hoping sooner rather than later.

This week has been a little different. She has been a little more happy. I can lay her down, although, not really while she is awake. But she has been sleeping a little more during the day. Last night I was super excited because we slept 2-3 hours between feedings (sad, that it is exciting!). I feel very good after my night. But of course this is because Pedro has the whole week off. I figure he will go back to work and she will sense my vulnerability and take advantage of me again.

I think maybe she was growing, well she has obviously been growing (since she was up weight and length), maybe that was what was has been causing the crankiness. We have also given her some gas medicine, since she isn't a big burper. We will spend a significant amount of time trying to burp and we get nothing.

Right now she is laying AWAKE in her pack and play looking around. These are few and far between moments of awake quietness. I am hoping for more and more of them:


I had to take a picture to remember that this has actually happened!

I'm pretty sure I said this from the beginning. That I will be prepared for the most difficult experience. I have NEVER thought this would be easy or fun all the time. I don't miss my long sleep, earlier in the week I was missing SOME or ANY type of sleep! I know my child will have good days and bad, I am hoping that we have some more HAPPY days ahead!