St. Patrick's

Here are some photos of the girls on St. Patrick's Day. Lydia had told Kris and I a few days before St. Patricks that she was going to wear pink instead of green to be different. Well we both meet in the middle, pink pants, green shirt. The girl has quite the personality!
Hannah had her two week weight check (two weeks of being off breastmilk and on formula) and she did GREAT 12.8oz. up 8oz! the Dr clapped for us! We have decided to keep her on the formula for a while longer and hope that around 5 to 6 months of age she can start getting breat milk again, she is such a happier baby! She still has the reflux but her belly and intestines don't have to work so hard, so she isn't getting a ton of acid! I can't even tell you how cute her smiles are and she just lights up when Lydia talks to her!

Hannah Talking

Here is Hannah chatting it away.

McCall

Just when the Dr ordred a little rest and relaxation we got it. We had our 5th annual snow weekend in the Mtns with the crew this past weekend. It was sort of a last month choice for the Kamann's to join and boy am I glad we did. Thanks to all the help we had with Hannah and Lydia Kris and I finally caught up on sleep. Lydia had a blast with Ava and Hannah was held most the weekend which I know she enjoyed a ton. We were able to go sledding, which Lydia didn't do, I think we have lost our dare devil for a while but Kris and I had a blast. We played in the snow one morning and other wise just hung out and chatted it up all day. It was great to spend the weekend with great friends, good food and good wine.

Checking out the birds

Buried Alive

Sledding

Sledding

Jake, Ava and Lydia have snack while sledding it was ADORABLE

Hannah's first snow play, or sleep!

Amy and Lydia playing!

The ups and downs of being a mommy

Well I think I officially have memorized the pediactrians phone number for Hannah, for a 12 week old baby we have been in their office 9 times for her. This makes me sad. Last Wednesday I took her again because her Gerd was terrible, she would scream, couldn't sleep and was just an uphappy sad baby girl. This is where I took my dive down the tubes, the Dr pulled her off breastmilk, she was losing weight not gaining it. My 1st reaction was I was a failure, that I couldn't even feed and keep healthy my own baby, my 2nd reaction was why? and the 3rd one was holly crap how are we going to pay for this stuff, not only is she on formula but one of the most expensive ones out there. So two days into her being on just formula, my baby is BACK! She is happy, smiley, sleeping, looking around at her big old world, loves to talk to you so my reactions all changed to, this is the right thing for my baby until she learns food is good, thank goodness for Enfamil and them making a hypoallergnic formula and thank you Dr for helping us finally. So as it stands today, we are on formula with a little breastfeeding and I am married to the pump 3 times a day in hopes that she will gain weight, learn food is yummy and her intestines will process the food and keep her acid levels in her tummy down. Then as she gets older we will change formulas and introduce more breastfeeding.
I can say that finally I see that there is a light at the end of this tunnel we have been stuck in for 10 weeks, I am so happy that Hannah is acting normal and loving life I can't even explain. My heart was broken because she was so miserable and as we all know when mommy doesn't feel good no one does, so hopefully this will be a positive turn around in our house for all of us.
YEAH HANNAH!

Video

Here is a video of Hannah

We did it!

We survived Daddy being gone for the second time. Well almost. We had two really rough nights but we are all still here and kicking! Hannah in my opinion has grown quit a bit this past few weeks and is starting to act more like a baby than a newborn, it is so fun to watch. Her reflux seems to be under control all though she choak a lot on the liquid coming up which is still hard to hear and see for mom.
Lydia is doing great, she is learning to count to 100 and does really good until she gets to the changes like 19 to 20 and 29 to 30 but I am very impressed.
The sun is shinning in this city today which is rare lately so I think Hannah and I are off for a walk.