2 days vs. 1 month

Two days old

One month old

Olivia is still pretty small, and unable to fit into a lot of her clothes. I decided since she was one month old today, I'd try to put the "coming home" outfit on her to see if it fit yet. It fits! Check out the difference from when she was two days old until now! :)

Fourth Week

O was watching herself in the mirror on the swing.

Mommy and Daddy's bed is comfy!

I love to stare at my Daddy! He's handsome!

Lupe "The Sitter" and O

It seems like time has flown by! Olivia now has 4 weeks under her belt...I mean diaper. ;) This has been the most fun week yet I think. We had our first Thanksgiving with our princess. She was very good at the Cracker Barrel. Eric and I ate there our first Thanksgiving as a married couple because all of our family was back in Indiana. So, we carried on the tradition and went there again. It was fun.

Friday we braved the crowds and went to the Woodlands Mall. It wasn't that crowded, but we did go later on in the day. We had dinner with some friends at Chuy's, and Olivia was excellent there as well.

Saturday and Sunday we just hung out at home. I don't think we ever made it out of our jammies on Saturday. We watched movies all day long. It was a blast. Our church strongly encourages people to take their babies to the nursery. I refuse to do so, so as usual we started into the sanctuary with Olivia in arms. This time I was stopped and a man said in a scolding tone, "So you're taking her in there with you?" I smiled, and said "yes, she's quiet and she'll stay quiet." Yikes, I hoped I wouldn't eat my words. But, our little princess stayed quiet and awake the whole time. Of course, it wasn't 8-10:30 in the evening. Did I ever mention that I hate evenings? Grrr....

Yesterday Olivia took a 4 hour nap! It was awesome! And to wrap up the week, today we went to the eye dr. (for me) and then to my friend Amy's house to play with Abby. :) Olivia and Abby were both on their best behavior. At one point Abby thought Mommy (Amy) was paying too much attention to Olivia because she let out this high pitched scream and then laughed hard. Amy said she had never ever made that noise. It was cute!

We can't wait for next week! On Tuesday my sister finds out how many she is expecting! I hope it is twins! Then she and her husband are coming on Thursday to see us and meet little O. :) We are super pumped! Lupe is excited, too! She loves aunt Lisa!

Oh, and I posted more pictures on the online photo album!

Third week's a charm...

...or not. :) Let me start by saying we have had another fun week together. However, 8-10:30 p.m. is NOT our favorite time. Olivia can be sound asleep on you, and the moment you put her in her crib to go to bed, she wakes up and screams her head off. So, you pick her up and she immediately falls back to sleep on you. Again, you put her down in the crib...WWWAAAAAA! Eric and I have vastly differing ideas of how to handle this, so then it becomes a battle of wills. Not so fun, especially considering at that time everyone is entirely too tired to be dealing with the situation in a rational state. Eric thinks she should scream it out, I hate that idea and want to go get her and hold her again until she falls asleep. Any suggestions?

My good friend Beth (from Purdue) came to visit this week. She now lives in Dallas, so she drove down on Monday to spend some time with Olivia and me. We had a lot of fun. Mostly we just talked and watched tv, because really...where can you go with a 3 week old? Beth helped out a lot and changed MANY diapers. Thank you so much Beth! You were a HUGE help! Beth taught Olivia how to hold her own bottle. :) I know, I know...it was just a fluke.

In other news...HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We decided to stay here in Texas instead of going back to Indiana for Thanksgiving. So, as we did the first year we were married, I think we are going to have our dinner at Cracker Barrel. :) We had a lot of fun doing that, so we are going to do it again. This time we have a new member to go with us. She won't be having any turkey or stuffing...just milk.

Oh, one more exciting piece of news...last night Olivia went 6 hours without waking me up for a feeding. Thanks Liv! I woke up after 5 hours and freaked out. I made Eric go in to check on her just to make sure everything was ok. She was fine and woke up an hour later for food. That's my girl!

Olivia's Second Week

In review...
This week Olivia got to meet both sets of grandparents! :) My (Kelly's) parents came on Wednesday and left on Saturday, and Eric's parents came on Sunday and left today. Olivia is going to be super spoiled! We all had a great time!

On Tuesday, when Olivia was officially 2 weeks old, her "stump" fell off. Now she has a belly button! It is mighty cute if I do say so! :)

Olivia went to the mall for the first time this week. We went to the Galleria and walked around. She got to ride on an escalator, too! We had to go home, though, because I was not feeling well. I think I tried to do too much, too soon.

O is also starting to get a routine down. She goes to bed around 9 and gets up to eat at 12:30 and 4:00. She has been really great about going right back to sleep after each feeding.

The projectile vomiting has sort of tapered off. It is super frustrating to finish a feeding just to have her spit it ALL right back at you. Then you have to clean her up, clean yourself up, and do it all over again. This is very emotionally draining!

Lastly, we are totally amazed by our beautiful little girl. We love her so very much and couldn't be happier with her! She is truly a gift from God, and we thank Him every day for her!

Olivia's First Week

We have successfully made it through week one with our little angel. She is absolutely precious and we could not adore her more. She had a "one week check-up" yesterday and she is doing well. She is back up to her birth weight, and she has grown 1/4 inch! :)

Here are some "firsts" that she has had this week:
First outing (to Target)
First bath at home (it went really well)
First blowout diaper (Daddy got to handle that one)
First walk around the neighborhood (she threw up)

Now here are some answers to some commonly asked questions:
*Yes, she has projectile vomited (on Daddy)
*Yes, she has had a couple blowout diapers
*Yes, she has peed when NOT wearing a diaper, thus wetting everything around her
*No, she is not very fussy
*Yes, she is feeding very well (the evidence is in the diapers!)
*Yes, Eric HAS changed some diapers...in fact, he has changed most of them


Thank you to all of you who visited, brought meals, sent cards...we really appreciate it! Now I'll let you get to the part that you are really here for...the pictures! :) Oh, and if I haven't mentioned it already, you can see more by clicking on "online photo album" under the picture of Eric and me and then click on "baby Comerford". Enjoy!

Announcing...Miss Olivia Reese Comerford

Yes! She is here! Olivia was born on Tuesday, October 30th at 5:56 p.m. She weighed 6 lbs. 10 oz. and is 19 inches long. :) This was four days ahead of schedule, which was fine by us. This is just a quick post, as we are getting ready to take a family nap. Eric is changing Olivia's poopie diaper as I type this. Then she'll eat and we'll all go nighty night. Enjoy the pictures and feel free to visit us anytime! More to come...

False Alarm

Well, Eric and I made a trip to the Woodlands Hospital tonight. I thought my water was leaking, so we called the doctor. I was told to come in to get it checked out. So, around 8:30 we packed up the car and headed up there. We got right in and the nurse hooked me up to 2 monitors: one for Olivia's heart rate and the other for my contractions. It was really comforting to hear her heart beating. What was not comforting were my contractions!! They are really strong and painful now...and they are getting quite regular. They were every 5 minutes or so while we were in the hospital. The lady called them "mild" but I don't know what she was smoking because that is not the word I would use to describe them. :) She just kept saying over and over how "thin" I was and how that was a good thing. Apparently I am 90% effaced, but still only 1 cm dilated. She indicated that I may be in early labor. I kept trying to get her to say when she thought I'd deliver, but you know those people, they can never tell you for sure. :) She did make the comment that she didn't think I'd be late though, so that is nice. Turns out they like you to do most of your laboring at home if possible...so that is where they sent us...home. Eric is in bed now as we speak, and I just finished off the rest of the chocolate chip pancakes I made for breakfast this morning. I think it is going to be a long night...