7.5 weeks

ivy is so much fun right now. every morning she smiles and coos for a few hours without stopping. she sticks her tongue out all the time and it is so cute. if you kiss her on the mouth she will slip you a little tongue too. she's trained for it now, if she sees you coming in for a kiss she gets ready. its my favorite.

weeks 5 + 6 + 7

five weeks

six weeks

seven weeks

I really don't have too much to say about Ivy's first couple of months here. Everyone knows how crazy it is to have your first baby. It so hard and so rewarding. It is the best thing in the world.

I think we did really well for the first three weeks, then hormones hit and my body realized it was tired, and then we had a rough patch for the next few weeks. Ivy wasn't gaining weight for a long time, and she didn't get back up to her birth weight until almost 6 weeks. After about 7 weeks I felt like I was starting to become myself again.

I love this little nugget. I can't believe how fast she is growing up.

One night when I was a hormonal mess I was looking at Ivy and realized that her her head shape had changed since birth, and that she didn't have the distinct crown ridge that she did when she was born. And I couldn't stop crying. I lost it. I was so sad that parts of her had already changed and newborn baby ivy was never coming back.

When Ivy was born we didn't feel like the name that we had previously picked out for her fit.
In fact, it was the first thing I thought when I saw her and I have a really ugly picture of my face while I said it. I will probably never show you that picture.  So we called her "baby" or "andrew" for the first week because she looked just like our nephew, andrew.

Then we chose Ivy. Honestly, it wasn't my favorite name of the bunch we liked, but it is what seemed to fit. And I think it fits perfectly now and I love it for her.
I liked the name Vine independently of Ivy.  It is really just by chance that we put them together and that there is such a thing as an ivy vine.
Some people laugh out loud when I tell them her full name, some think I am joking, others love it.
I love it.

We have a lot of names for her.
Our nurse at the hospital called her "hunny" and I honestly think that is why I call her hunny. That is the first name someone gave her I guess, unless you want to count Andrew.
But I prefer to think of it as "honey".

We call her:
I
Ives
Honey
Bunny
Honey bunny
Honey bunches
Honey bunches of oats
Babes
Baby
Honey baby
Jumper
Chompy

Week 3 & 4

I'd like to tell you that the messiness that is in this picture of our bedroom was temporary, and was only there as a result of having a baby. But I'd be lying. That is what out room still looks like, and I don't see it getting better any time soon.

Week two

week one

Well, you've probably caught on by now that I have lost all motivation to keep this blog looking pretty, now its just a place to dump a bunch of phone photos.  Until we pass through the obsessed with new baby phase you are just going to have to endure through the thousands of them I will probably post :)

david multi tasking

her first bath

First day home

When we left the hospital we got stuck in traffic from a football game for an hour.  It was the worst. A drive that should only take ten minutes took us so long, and we were stuck and one signal for most of that. I was so overwhelmed with feelings that I just quietly cried the whole time.  We got home and david went and got mexican food take out and we ate it while talking about how weird it was that we just brought out baby home, and then went to bed. It was such a funny thing to bring her home and know that this is where she will grow up.

I loved waking up next to her. It was the first time we had seen her in natural light instead of the terrible fluorescent lights that are at the hospital.

Day two

Ivy looks so much like baby david, its crazy. So far the only thing about her that is mine that we can recognize is her ears. This third photo is almost identical to david's baby hospital picture, his hands are exactly the same in it too.