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What are little girls are made of?

Sugar and Spice, and everything nice. Right? We are 6 weeks along with baby Olivia and so far I've been a good, bad, and ugly Mom, or sometimes a down-right witch! I wish I could be a time traveller (btw, saw the movie last night, 2 thumbs down!!!) and talk to myself before I had kids and when I had newborn Isabelle and tell myself to revel in the good moments. Ok I'm trying to be a good writer here and it's going nearly as well as my sisters blog sound (http://www.trueblueskies.blogspot.com/).

Top 10 Sugar & Spice moments of week 6

10. (High) Waking up Monday morning and realizing I had only been awoken once between midnight at 5 by Olivia in stead of twice, great feeling!

9. (High) Watching Olivia be an absolute angel for her visiting grandma and grandpa Norton for 3 days.

8. (High) Having 2 meals provided for me this week.

7. (High) Watching Isabelle prance through the newly fallen snow in 2-sizes-too-small boots but loving every minute of it.

6.(High) Watching Izzy in her ADORABLE preschool Halloween parade and program.

5 (Low) Realizing she wasn't singing her program songs due to the piece of gum she demanded and was chewing from earlier that morning.

4. (High) Loving the fact I got her costume for $5 from KSL.com and that she actually didn't mind the chin elastic to keep her hat on-miracle!

3. (High) Getting my hair cut and colored.

2 (Low) Coming home from getting my hair cut and colored and looking in the mirror-I really had her hack off a lot of length!!!!

1. (Low) Racing out the door Friday night when Aaron returned from work after one of the hardest days and lowest points of my parenting years thus far. I needed to get away, asap, for everyone's sake. I went and got myself a smoothie, a long quiet drive, and a dollar movie and came home much calmer and thankfully the house was calm as well.

6 weeks has brought extreme highs, and extreme lows. For the first time this week, Olivia only woke up once for a night feeding, helping me feel extremely energized the next day. She also experienced for the first time staying awake an entire 16 hour day-resulting in me holding her the entire day or not holding her and listen to her scream-not exaggerating! Maybe these two changes are related-asleep more at night, and awake more during the day-ok yes I'm sure they are related. What has been so hard for me this week is feeling so much better physically, but having that energy be drained so quick by Olivia during the day. It's almost as if she's allowing me to prepare for the day with more sleep, because she knows I'm gonna need it! Could that be? It seems babies are so aware of what mommies are doing-always squirming awake after finally falling asleep when Mommy's head finally sinks into a pillow, or choosing to have her cute moments when company is around, or getting away with sitting on my boppy pillow as we speak right next to me so I can write this without her crying as my soundtrack.

I know this sounds like a vent-post, and I'll freely admit that it is.

Bring on Halloween!!!!! (I have adorable pictures/videos from Izzy's Halloween program I'll post after all the Halloween festivities are done, stay tuned!)

Month One

We made it to 1 month!! I have to say we are very lucky to have Olivia in our family. She has been a good baby-no surprises compared to our experience with Isabelle as a newborn. Isabelle has done well with another child in our family. I haven't noticed major changes, just my patience is tested a lot more from the lack of sleep!!! I don't have 2 hours anymore to convince Isabelle to take a nap every afternoon so instead she goes to sleep a little earlier on those days-which is a great alternative to no nap! Olivia has done well with what newborns do best-sleep and eat (and pee and poop). She does all of the above as she should-as if you really wanted to know that I'm sure!

We are doing our best to keep the germs/flu viruses out of our house. It's tough when I have 20 families coming into my home every week for violin lessons, Aaron's working around illness at work, and Isabelle is at preschool every week. Although these three germ-fests are among us, I wouldn't give up any one of them for anything!

Olivia Claire-1 month "photo shoot"

almost snagged a smile on this one!

She's very alert when she's awake now, so fun to watch her grow!

Her best furrowed-brow look...

I think this was a grunt from Olivia-not a smile-but it almost looks like a smile! Isabelle looks adorable as always!