marc and michelle

Stella One Month

Nov. 15, 2011

We love our little Stella and couldn't imagine life without her.  This first month has been the Quickest and Longest month of my life!  It has been an adjustment to have three kids.  With Jackson in all day kindergarten I spend most days with just Bennett and Stella, so it isn't too hard to manage the two of them.  It is our morning time from about 6:30 am-8:00am that we are running around in circles trying to put everything together.  Since Stella isn't on a strict  schedule yet, I never am quite sure what time she will wake up and if I will have to be feeding Stella and trying to get Jackson out the door to school.  So that can being some craziness, but luckily I have good friends who have been so helpful and kind and thanks to Nancy I haven't had to drive carpool once since Stella was born.  Luckily I can show up to her car totally dishevled with Bennett just in a t-shirt and undies, knowing we can just run right back upstairs and finish getting ready.  I have a 2 out of 4 ratio, I feel really good if I can show up to her car in the morning with 2 out of the 4 of us ready to go.  Usually, they have all had baths or showers, but only Jackson and one of the other two are competley ready to go.   :)  2 out of 4, pretty good odds if you ask me. 

Anyway, Stella is a really happy baby.  We are starting to see little smiles and we all love it!  The boys light right up when they see her grins.  Stella is sleeping through the night...most nights, yeaa! She sleeps from about 10:30pm-6:30am, it is wonderful.  She is a very easy going baby.  I think she knows she has to fit into our lives and that we can't just revolve around her schedule.  She attends Music Makers with us, helps in Bennett's co-op preschool, runs errands etc.  She just sleeps through it all, attached to me in the Baby Bjiorn (thank heavens for that wonderful invention).  :)   She keeps a pretty normal schedule, eating every three hours and sleeping most of the time.  She spends about 30 minutes after each feeding awake, but other than that she is sleeping.  We sure love our little Stella!  

Marc was taking care of Stella while I got the boys in bed one night and this is what I came out to find.  A little mermaid asleep in her clam shell.  :)

She told me she thinks we are doing a pretty good job taking care of her (hence the thumbs up)

Eyes open?!  What, that is a rarity.  We call her a Kitty Cat because she mostly keeps her eyes closed.