The Littlest Champion

August 2, 2013 (3 weeks old)

 

We had a big week last week. My Aunt from Delaware visited for four and a half days, and we had a lot of visitors come by the house to say hi to Sierra (and us of course). We already had our friends who live in Davis come to visit previously so Sierra knows a lot of people now! I have to tell you one of the nicest things you can do for anyone who recently had a baby is bring them food (and I will do the same for all of my pregnant friends in the area)!

Lisa and Jeremy brought over lunch for us in the first week we were home, and brought over dessert the following day.

 Jill and Levi made us dinner within the first week. 

Gus' sister, Lyn, and his mom, Anne, both helped with food stuff in the first week too! Sierra met our friends Carmen and Michhi on Saturday morning too!  (Unfortunately we forgot to take some pictures).

I thought we would surely be fending for ourselves within the second week but no! We were visited by our good friends Julia and Chris for lunch on Sunday. Julia made an awesome recipe she found from Bon Appetite and Chris made sure to bring a select Farmhouse Ale with him too.

Cousin Rikki, Curt, and (Sierra's cousin) Celisse came to visit on Sunday and brought over some pizza and spent some quality time with us and the baby too.

 Bailey, our nanny, came by on Tuesday with her girls to introduce them to Sierra. Her four month old was the same length as Sierra at 2.5 weeks! My Aunt treated us to take out on Friday. We were also able to make some easy meals ourselves during her visit, since we had an extra set of hands having Asha in town.

I have also gone to 2 "new mom's groups." They were interesting and I actually enjoyed the one in Sacramento quite a bit. It was outside at a local park and all the moms used cloth diapers and co-slept to some degree. So I was able to ask a bunch of questions. The one I went to in Davis was geared towards women with babies around 4-6 months so we were a little young for the crowd, but it was fun anyway.

We (Asha, Gus, Sierra, and I) were able to get out to Rockville Regional Park Sunday morning for a hike while Gus mountain biked.

It was nice to have Wednesday to just have some down time with Sierra and me. I was able to go for a morning walk with her that was longer than usual which was nice, and do all the house chores I could in between her frequent feedings. Thursday I had to go to Sac State to get on to the waiting list for staff and faculty at the day care for the Spring semester. Apparently it is next to impossible to get your child into the day care there since they serve students and their children first, but it was worth a try. Our car rides are usually good, going in one direction but coming back the other direction is usually a scream fest. So in the evening when we headed to Anne and Jerry's house we decided to try to introduce the pacifier. Which worked for a while, but she much prefers my finger.

Grammy Anne and Grandpa Jer Bear were happy to see Sierra, as she was to see them.

Today we headed down to see Great Grandma Marybeth (who just moved to a retirement home in Fresno all the way from Seattle this past week).

That's our littlest champion, as Gus calls her. She is out and about meeting everyone these days, and seemingly making a lot of people smile while she's at it.