You quickly realize what consumes your mind when you have a baby. How much are they sleeping, eating and pooping? All important questions. Unfortunately, we became a bit worried about Sierra, as it had been 4 days since she pooped. Although we both have read literature that says it's normal, and other moms confirm it's okay. We still called our doctor to get the final word. "If she doesn't poop by the end of the morning on Thursday give us another call." Lucky for us Sierra has a great sense of timing, and the world is right again in the Wick house! This also means she won't be nearly as fussy as she has been for the past few days.
Last friday we had Jill, Ian and Marion over for an awesome potluck dinner. They are great new friends to have! Even the babies love hanging out. They smile and spit up and gurgle and blow spit bubbles back and forth. Being so close in age, they both really engage when they see each other. It was nice for all of us, although the adults refrained from spitting up after eating; we did have some good conversation.
The rest of the weekend was pretty mellow, seeing as Gus had to go into work for mandatory overtime. We had Grandpa Jeff over for dinner on Saturday and we all went out to Katmandu on Sunday. He babysat all week again, which has been really great for all of us. (You can tell that we live by a farm that has rotting fruit in the field... a fly landed on her head in this picture).
My Monday and Tuesday mornings remain mellow with Sierra. We say hi to the chickens, read stories, sing silly songs that don't make any sense, go for short walks in the stroller, and cuddle with the dogs on the bed together.
The dogs love her, and she has really begun to key into them. She especially likes to watch Keta play with her ball and wrestle with Oso. Oso's main interactions with the baby involve his incessant need to clean her. We often have to tell him that he's done enough cleaning for one day.
Otherwise the moms' group on Wednesday was filled with good baby interactions and swim class was good as usual. We even saw Jill and Marion again afterwards. This is the bathing suit Nana Maryann got for her that she wears each week. All the other babies seem to like it.
We head up to Humboldt again for wedding number two today, and are more equipped with baby distractions this time. It's a long drive for a little one to handle! Unfortunately, the second wedding we were going to try to make it to (in the same weekend) we thought would be too much for her to manage so we had to cancel.
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