Almost Christmas

We have been so busy getting back to normal life!! I have been having difficulties with work, so for a few weeks I am working 4am to 1230. it isn't as bad as it sounds. I hated the idea of it but it is actually really nice for me. I get to spend more time with the baby while I am wide awake versus being half asleep all day trying to play with the baby and get sleep.. But I will be going back to that in a few short weeks.

Manhattan is doing wonderfully. She is almost 11 lbs (10lbs 15 oz) as of yesterday. She is 23.25 inches long. So she is growing like a sprout. Doc says everything looks good and she got her first set of shots. Mattie did good getting the shots and only cried a little bit afterwards. It was later in the night that she got fussy. She wasn't crying just doing a bit of her fake cry. Eventually I fell asleep and Kelly took care of her most of the night. I woke up around 6 or so with her next to me in bed (guess Kelly brought her to me) and she's been hanging with me all day. She was only a little bit fussy this morning and has been sleeping most of the day. I think she is going through a growth spurt right now because she has been eating like crazy and sleeping more than normal.

I have begun walking her down to the library.. A little over a mile from our house. I like to read and I hope that she will too. We have our Christmas tree up but still no angel.. One year we will buy one. This year we don't plan to do much for Christmas since we already have most of what we need and all our spare money has gone towards getting anything we want for the baby. But really there isn't much we need for the baby since everything we can think that we need for her we go and buy it so now we don't know what to tell everyone to get the baby.. I think we are going to go with giftcards and that way we can just use them as we come across things.

She is still (barely) in newborn diapers and has started to grow out of some of the newborn outfits. But she is still a little too small for 3 month sizes.. She is one of those inbetween babies. She is really long but not fat so everything looks big except for when she pushes her legs out (which she is doing more and more) then you can see why she is in the bigger sizes.

She has taken to sleeping with us for part of the night. We try to get her to sleep in her pack and play, right next to our bed for the first part of the night. Then when she gets up in the middle of the night, we feed her and she usually ends up staying in the bed. I usually end up falling asleep when she is eating and I think kelly just gets so comfortable with her curled up next to him that he doesn't want to put her back. Plus, we can't figure out why but our bedroom is freezing. And her little bed gets cold so it wakes her up and she doesn't like it.

She has gotten really good at holding her head up, just not quite good enough to support herself all the time. She gave me a smile the other day that made me think that she was going to laugh. She crunched her body together and moved her head with a wide open mouth smile.. it was priceless. I wish I could have gotten a picture of it but I was out to lunch but at least my girlfriend got to see it.

Well, I am going to put up some video of her playing with me this morning and a couple of pictures. Also, we are sending out our Christmas cards, if you don't get one please let me know. We finally got an address book but for some reason, I keep coming across names of people that I don't have addresses for so i misplaced a bunch of them somewhere.