A drooling face her parents love, not to mention how much we love that its being done in there and not all over our clothes...again.
Our favorite outfit on her so far. Too bad she can only wear it for a few hours before its dirty...
Our wide-eyed girl. There's no middle ground with this one, she's either very asleep or very awake.So LaNea has proved to be a very stubborn little girl. Our hardest part with her is getting her to sleep. Now, don't get me wrong, she loves to sleep, but the getting to sleep is quite an ordeal. You see, she can't go to sleep if her arms are out but as she falls asleep she needs to have her arms up. So the struggle begins. We try to swaddle her just tight enough that she won't get her arms out too soon but that she'll still be able to get them out later. After one success, I snuck in to see how it went and this is how she slept. So she may be stubborn but she's a cute stubborn.
So Shauna came out at the end of August but didn't get to even meet her newest granddaugther til the middle of September. But not to worry we're looking forward to seeing her again in a few more weeks! Hopefully by then LaNea will be able to spend just a little more time awake then asleep.
So lately both Eric and I have been in full-blown parent mode. Its even there as we sleep. A couple nights ago Eric awoke and was terrified when he felt Lanie off to his side and couldn't figure out how she got there and worried that she would fall off. But when he reached out to grab her, all he felt was a handful of fur and a lot of meows.
Then last night, I set my alarm to wake me up to make sure I could feed her but I didn't fully wake up when it went off. A few minutes later I reached over to grab Lanie to get her ready to eat but I first felt a tail. Immediately I try to figure out where Bella was. I couldn't find her but it took me a little while as I tried to figure out how my daughter had grown a tail.
So needless to say we are either becoming somewhat confused over loss of sleep or our cat is set on making us crazy as fast as possible.
Eric had been dying to take LaNea for a walk around the park by our home. He even asked if he could as we drove home from the hospital. After what must have seemed like eternity, we finally took her a walk last night.
Our little girl by the end of the walk...
Our little girl at the start of the walk...
The very happy daddy all ready to go!So I know I have stolen the same pictures from both Shauna and April's but they did such a good job, I had to. April came up yesterday and brought some supplies to take pictures of our little girl. And while they shots all look perfect and it looks like she could have been sleeping for hours...she wasn't so April did a great job even with a very light-sleeper baby.
This will be one of the few pictures I'll have taken of me. April did such a great job at catching it at the perfect angle. She didn't even get my bad hair day in the shot!
If you didn't know better you might see this picture and think that Eric is posing for it but he gives LaNea so much attention always. He is even willing to stay up for hours at night as he patiently tries to put her on a schedule. He's such an amazing dad already.
I'll post more pictures soon but here's some to get you started...She was born on September 15, 2009 at 5:08 pm. She was 7 lbs 6 ounces and 21 inches long. So far she's been doing very well. She is still a very happy little girl but enjoys sleeping a lot. The new trick will be in helping her learn how to stay awake.
