Lydia turned 2 weeks on Wednesday, October 17th! CRAZY…. feels like time is flying by.

Warning: There will be lots of random information in these weekly posts, mostly because I don’t want to forget all these little stages, but also for the grandmas and such, so don’t feel like you have to read all the little details… 

Clothes: Lydia is still in newborn clothes and size 1 diaper folded over. She is just so tiny! I put newborn pants on her this morning and they fit in the length, but around the waist were a little big! It is amazing how many clothes we go though for such a tiny thing. I know understand why my mom always had laundry going- its a never ending job. But praise the Lord my in-laws gave us some cash to buy a used dryer!! Yes, thats right my baby girl will now have soft fresh smelling clothes and my husband will not have wrinkly shirts. What a blessing. 

Food: Little miss is such a good eater! I am in awe of the way God created women to be able to not only grow and nourish their babies in the whom, but continue to outside! What a great God we serve. What a blessing it is to be able to provide food for my little girl. I know that this is not something to take for granted as it is not always possible to do. We are still nursing about every 2 hours during the day. She has about 1-2 feedings a day where she just cries instead of latching on… I give her a few minutes to calm down and then she will eventually latch on. It breaks my heart, but I think I am realizing it is when she is over-hungry… generally happens when we are “on the road” or “out and about” which seems to be quite often these days. But overall she has done so well with all the travel eating. I have pumped twice now and have 4 oz frozen! Once we are home more I hope to continue pumping to have a nice storage built up.

Sleep: She is continues to be a champ at this. Now that we don’t have to set an alarm in the middle of the night, she has been sleeping for about 5- 6 hours stretches! She usually eats around 10- 10:30 or 11- 11:30 depending and sleeps till either 3:30 or 5:30am! And then is back down till 9 am! We feel so spoiled. I am trying to at least nap with her once a day, I think once we are home for a more consistent period I will be able to do this.

Other: 

* She gets the hiccups all the time and hates them. Poor girl. She is fine for a little while and when they keep lasting she gets upset.

* She is a pacci using baby… we were holding off on giving it to her because I read somewhere that it is important to make sure they get a good latch while nursing before introducing the pacci and honestly we haven’t really needed it. However, on her 2 week birthday we were in the car and her hiccups were bugging her and we couldn’t do anything to console her so we busted out the pacci and she loved it! So we have officially entered the pacci world… she doesn’t need it all the time and spits it out when she is done, but I am thankful for it esp for how much driving we have been doing.

* She loves to sleep during the day with her arms out of the swaddle and her neck and back arched. My mom said this is how I slept as a baby and continue to now, often I wake up with headaches because of the way I sleep on on neck… hope she doesn’t develop these same sleeping habits.

*She can be wide awake looking around, smiling and as soon as her daddy picks her up she falls asleep- she just feels so comfy and warm in his arms- which I love except for at 4 in the morning when she stays wide awake with me… I don’t have “the magic sleep hold”. 

*Her demeanor is so sweet and chill – Chase’s parents say we have it lucky this time and better watch out for the second! Ha We are truly blessed with her.

*Some nicknames we have been calling her: liddy, “liddy bug”, pumpkin, peanut, Sugar, “liddy lady”, “liddy bear”… I am sure there will be more and maybe one day we will pick just one, but for now she gets all of them!

Travels: This week she got to spend most of it in Buramai in her house! We got to bring her home the day after she turned one week- what a blessing. It has been so fun to have her at home with all her stuff and my awesome rocking chair. On her 2 week birthday she got to travel to Dubai for the first time where she rode slept through her first dhow boat cruise, hung out at her second hotel, went to IKEA for the first of many trips and now we are in Muscat working on Visa and passport stuff. Whoa! that makes me tired just typing it out…

Up next… the conclusion to my labor story! Sorry it has taken so long to complete… a lot harder now to sit down and finish a blog post- I took it for granted before!