Alone but Not Really

Today is my third day at home alone with the little munchkin. Things have gone mostly well. Yesterday was very stressful for reasons completely unrelated to Carina!

Our doorbell is broken and decided to randomly ring at 4 am during one of Carina's feedings Thursday morning. Peter hit the circuit breaker for the living room to turn off the doorbell but inadvertantly disconnected both the phone and the internet. He had the phone up and running before he left for work but not the internet. I stupidly tried to monkey around with the router and modem and ended up losing the phone connection too. I panicked and added minutes to my emergency cell phone that I was pretty sure wasn't even active anymore just so I would have some way to contact the outside world.

In the end I had the phone and internet working before Peter got home but it was a super stressful morning. Carina is still eating and sleeping like a champ. We got her newborn portrait session photos back and I ordered birth announcements. I'm so excited to send them out! Right now I've got the little monkey in a carrier tied to me so I have both hands free to type. She's a little restless but generally happy at the moment. Such a sweetie.

I can't wait for Peter to be home with us for 3 whole days!

We may actually know what we're doing!

Things actually seem to be going pretty well. Carina is still eating and pooping like a champ, yay! It looks like she has gained at least 3 ounces since Monday. Our little girl is growing so fast.

We went in for our follow-up pedi appt on Wednesday and because her numbers were so close to normal on Monday, the Dr. did not feel the need to do another blood test, hallelujah! We hate to see her so upset when they do tests like that. Later Wednesday night we discovered during a diaper change that her umbilical stump had fallen off just in time for her one week birthday! We're not sad to see it go. It was a little creepy.

Thursday my parents came to visit and held Carina the entire time. She's spoiled already. Mom brought chocolate chip cookies and they have held us together ever since, haha.

Yesterday Carina woke up with a yellow discharge in one eye so we called the pedi and they wanted to see us in the afternoon. Our friends delivered dinner around lunch time and then we took our first big outing to Babies R Us. I wanted to buy a few pumping supplies. Carina slept the entire time. Later at the pedi we found out she has an infected clogged tear duct. We have some ointment to put in her eye twice a day and we were told massaging the corner of her eye could help too. I think it looks better already today.

We had our friends Mike and Missy come to do a newborn portrait session this morning. It went extremely well. I woke Carina up from a nap so she was a little fussy but I think we got some really nice shots. Can't wait to see and share them!

So now Peter and I are hanging out while Carina naps. We'll probably grab some lunch soon. Days seem to go very nicely and Carina sticks to a pretty good every 3 hour feeding schedule but the past couple of nights have been a little harder. We wonder if she has some gas issues and gave her gas drops last night. Sometimes she's just too fussy to sleep but it all works out in the end and we all end up with at least a little sleep.

We just love being mommy and daddy!