3 weeks old

Getting a diaper change.

My hands never leave my face!

I love bathtime! Ha!

On Tuesday, Sipsey will be 3 weeks old! She has really grown a lot! I weighed her today (I weighed myself and then myself holding her and did the math). She weighs 9.5 pounds! She is a hog and I let her eat all the time. I'd rather let her eat than hear her cry. I don't know how much a 3 week old is supposed to weigh but Sipsey seems pretty big. Her umbilical stump fell off the other day, so we have been able to take real baths now! You can see how much she loves bath time in the picture above. We still have trouble sleeping unless it's in someone's arms. Sipsey sleeps in the bed with us at night, and she (and we) loves it! We have this baby positioner and we put her in it in between us and she sleeps in 3 hour increments or longer which is a miracle. During the daytime however, no one is there to sleep with her in her crib so she wakes up every 30 minutes or less and has to be rocked back to sleep. She startles herself awake a lot. When she's in the bed with us, we just pat her back and she goes back to sleep. When she's in the crib and realizes we duped her into going asleep alone, she cries. This causes problems when I need to take a shower, get ready, eat lunch, etc. Anyway, we love her and I'll hold her all day long if I have to!

In other news, I started school today. :( I only had to be there from 4:00 to 5:15 but it was no fun. Tomorrow I have class from 9:30-10:45 and 12:30-1:45. That's really gonna be no fun! If I make it to class on time tomorrow morning, it will be a miracle. I hope attendance is optional because I feel like the 9:30 class (Biostatistics) will be skipped quite a bit. I barely got ready by 4:00 today (I hope Sipsey's 20 to 30 minute sleep sessions will grow longer). Being ready to leave the house by 8:50 is going to be a challenge. Sipsey and I are usually up for a feed somewhere between 5:00 and 7:00. I usually go back to sleep with Sipsey after that, but I think now I will need to put her back in the bed with Ben and then start getting myself ready! If you know me and my love of sleep, you know how upset I am about this. On that note, I should go feed her and then go bed!