3 weeks today!

Today Alexis is 3 weeks old. It feels like she has been here forever, so when I stop and think that it has really only been 3 weeks, I can hardly believe it. In the last 3 weeks she has been a busy girl. She's gotten over her jaundice and grown alot. She seems so big compared to when she was born! She is a very demanding eater and wants to eat all the time. I think part of it may very well be her using me as a pacifier, but we have tried giving her the soother and she doesn't seem to like it. I think she has her days and nights mixed up too, as during the day she will sleep 5-6 hour stretches and is barely awake long enough to finish a feeding, but at night she wants to be fed every 3 hours and I have a very difficult time getting her back to sleep. So we need to work on that.

The 3 of us have been taking walks in the afternoons this week. Lexi usually sleeps the whole time, and Addy just sits up front in the stroller and looks all over the place and babbles away to herself. We don't go far (only about a 20-minute long walk) and I keep the pace pretty leisurely because I'm still healing, but it's so nice to get out of the house and enjoy the nice weather. And Addy seems to be sleeping better at night after having gotten some fresh air during the day. Today we're going over to Mom's for supper, and I am planning on heading over there early so there probably won't be a walk today. The girls are sleeping now, but when naptime is over and Addy has had her snack (and Lexi will probably want to eat again too), I will have the enjoyable task of trying to get 2 babies ready to go and remember everything we'll need. So we'll see how I do. lol

Anyways, being that it's almost 2pm, I should probably go get myself dressed. I remember 5 or so years ago when it was a big deal when I was out of bed, dressed, teeth brushed and hair done by 10am. Now it's a big deal if I have both kids up, clean diapers, dressed and fed by that time, and I'm lucky if I get to be ready for the day by lunchtime.