A Celebration of Survival

Here we are one month into the parenthood!  Happy one month birthday to Ivy Grace tomorrow morning.  Hopefully she celebrates by sleeping in.

Little Ivy is continuing to do what she does best, which is...mostly nothing!  She enjoys her bottles or at least acts ravenous enough that I think she enjoys them.  It's hard to tell what she really likes...  It's also hard to tell what she doesn't like...

Here we have Ivy, plotting our demise.

Scott and I are feeling a little less insane now (ok it was only me who ever felt insane--Scott is, as usual, cool and collected through everything).

I spend my days celebrating the completion of regular tasks that used to be inconsequential but now feel monumental.  I worked out.  Cue the confetti!  I vacuumed.  Let's get a celebration cake!  I weed whacked.  Let's book a trip to Hawaii!

The new norm is kind of crazy and really hard, but we are enjoying it.  My favorite Ivy thing at this phase is definitely her fully body stretches and facial expressions when we wake her up to feed her.  So hilarious.

Yes, this picture is the exact same pose as so many others (including the one above) but this is literally what we do all day every day.

Things I have learned/noted this month:

1.  Did you know there are literally no words that rhyme with Ivy?  It's hard to give her nicknames or make up songs to sing her because of this.

2. Ivy's dad ordered a little video camera that he straps to his head and films her with.  Whatever makes the middle-of-the-night feedings more enjoyable... You can go watch Ivy do almost nothing on her Youtube channel.

3. The online motherhood community is confusing and chuck full of acronyms I do not understand.

4. We were driving to RC Willey the other day and Scott asked me what Babywise recommends as far as taking your baby somewhere during nap time.  I'm pretty sure Babywise recommends you...never go anywhere at any time for any reason.  This is the key to success.

5. You should apparently keep your baby awake longer during the day in order to help them sleep better at night, but the internet also says the worst sleeping mistake you can make is keeping your baby awake too long during the day, so... you can imagine the success we're having following completely opposing advice.