Macey came home from the hospital and fit right in with our family. She LOVES to sleep on your chest. She snuggles in as close as she can to your neck and will sleep that way for hours. She also LOVES to eat! She eats every two hours and never spits up - she's like a bottomless pit. She won't stop eating until milk is spilling out of the sides of her mouth and even then, she gets mad when you take her food away. She loves to hold your fingers while she's eating. She flails her hands around until she finds a finger or a hand to hold. She is a super sweet girl and we are loving watching her grow and change every day.
Maddie is enthralled with her little sister. I thought for sure she would be jealous of Macey, but she has never expressed anything but love and concern for her sister. In fact, I'm not sure she trusts us with Macey. She is constantly worried about where Macey is. I feel like she thinks we lose her all the time. I always ressure her that Macey is in her swing or sleeping in her bed, but I love how Maddie is a little mommy to Macey. If she's crying, Maddie brings over her binky. If that doesn't work, then she opens the refrigerator and gets her a bottle and shoves it in her mouth. If that doesn't work, she starts shushing her. I have a post planned for thir sisterly love for each other, so I'll stop there, but they are so sweet together.
Here is a short video of the girls when Macey was less than a week old...
Macey visiting with Great Grandma Pope. My girls are so lucky to have both sets of great grandparents (on Brandon's side) so close and so involved in their lives. We love our huge family!
First Check-Up at the Pediatrician at one week old.
This picture is deceiving ... Macey loathes her car seat and riding in the car. She screams whether it's a 20 second car ride or a 20 minute car ride.
She has been trying to hold her own bottle since the week she came home. This girl loves her milk!
Macey's first bath was on the dining room table! It's been a pretty chilly California winter, so we set her bathtub on the dining room table with a space heater next to her to keep her warm and cozy. She loved being in the water.
Big sister Maddie supervising the bath. She was so excited, she wanted Macey to have four baths that day.
Macey loves natural light - she always cranes her head around to find a window or door.
Macey at one month
She has changed so much. She looks so different than she did when we first brought her home. The first few weeks, Macey was a bit of a fuss bucket. She had a hard time with gas and tummy troubles. We tried Mylicon gas drops, Dr. Brown's anti-colic bottles, I'm not eating or drinking any dairy, Colic Calm, etc. She'll be three months old next week and she has really settled down. I think she just needed to grow out of some of her gas issues. She's still a little bit of a diva, but she'll entertain herself in her jungle play mat or activity chair for a long time now. We love our little Macey Bug.
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