A barrage of pictures containing a baby in a sling and knit caps!

Well, it seems that fall has finally arrived in our neck of the woods. I'm overjoyed as it's my favorite season, but slightly alarmed that I seemed to completely ignore summer in its entirety. (Probably because I spent most of it at home, basking in the air conditioning, fanning my pregnant belly and trying not to sneeze for fear of blood pressure spikes.) Ready or not, Cora's first fall is here!

We've been doing a lot of bopping around town in the ring sling recently. Last week we welcomed in the fall season by going apple picking with Little C's aunts, uncle, and cousin (who I guess you could call "slightly bigger C"). It was a great time and a flashback to one of my favorite dates with Sean before we were married and we came home with about 25,000 apples.

She slept through most of it, and as it turns out we were spectacularly over-bundled for the occasion, as our 50 degree day crept toward the 80s and we were trudging up and down hills with big sacks of apples. 

Last Monday Cora woke up with a rash on her face, and her reflux was still making her pretty uncomfortable, so we headed to the pediatrician's office. As it turns out, the rash is just a baby rash with some baby acne sprinkled in. To battle the reflux, the doctor prescribed a dairy-free and soy-free diet for me to follow for a few weeks. It's been about a week and I really think it has been helping her! The past two nights she slept for stretches of 5 hours! I'm pretty sure she was just nursing to soothe herself from her tummy troubles. 

We're so glad that we've potentially figured out why she was so uncomfortable, but this diet is hard! The dairy isn't so bad, but there is soy in EVERYTHING! 

So we headed off to Whole Foods yesterday. I have to say, for people with allergies, Whole Foods is fantastic. They list every ingredient in a very accessible place on their prepared food, and they stock a lot of products that were designed to avoid the common allergens (peanuts, milk, soy, tree nuts, eggs, wheat..etc). After a week of being a little sad and hungry about my food options, and tiring of almond milk and life cereal for breakfast every morning, I was in heaven! Obviously all of their produce is "safe" for me, but a lot of their deli items were as well! Also, our adorable baby turned heads in the store with her cute bear hat (Thanks, cousin Max!). We had one little boy come up to us, explaining that he thought she was a dog from far away because of her hat. 

Where's the section for "Baby's first trip to Whole Foods" in the baby book?

Again, our baby slept like a champ! Here are a couple of other ways that she spent the weekend:

Tummy time with daddy and the cats.

 Having her hand eaten by Daddy.

Hanging out with Daddy and Aunt Nan! (Plus her grandparents, we forgot to get a picture of them this time!)

Ok, so this looks like she spent the who weekend having a bunch of time interacting with Sean and just sleeping on me, but I swear I interact with my child! We had a great weekend and she was sad to see Daddy go back to work this morning.

Life with Little C

We are absolutely in love with our little girl! She makes hilarious faces (that apparently make her look like mommy), grunts like an old man with the best comedic timing, and she's a sweet snuggler as long as she has her binky (Joshua Giraffe) in her mouth.

What everyone tells you about parenthood before you become a parent is totally true: there is a HUGE learning curve. We've juggled poopsplosions, trips to the ER due to a lack of poop, sleepless nights, and a baby that is just way too sleepy. But our little girl seems to have her mommy's sense of humor; just when it seems that everything is terrible, she'll let out a huge fart to break the (internal and external) tension. She's our tiny cupcake, weighing in at a whopping 7 lbs 14.5 oz at 6 weeks old, but that's almost 2 pounds up from her birth weight, so we are very happy with that! 

Little C's Favorite Things (6 week old edition):

-Joshua Giraffe, binky extraordinaire

-Very hungry caterpillar toy (particularly chewing on his antennae)

-Bouncy seat, before it automatically shuts off and we have to wake mommy to turn it back on.

-Being carried in the ring sling, as long as she's sleeping

-BOOBS

-Hates:Baths, Loves: "Snug as a bug in a rug" snuggle times after baths

Overall we've adjusted to our own routine more or less. I've learned that when worse comes to worst, it's only a matter of turning on the shower to get her to finally fall asleep and she's learned that mommy is never too far away to put a binky in her mouth 8,000 times in a span of 10 minutes.

That's life in the Robbins nest! We've got some interesting health updates that I'll blog about in another entry when we're a little more clear on her special circumstances (just another weirdo Potatoes grandkid making life interesting), but this the little girl we see on a daily basis! We love her to pieces, as does everyone she meets.

Off to get some laundry and dishes done while nap time still lasts, after all, it's 6 week growth spurt time!

Our little family!

It's pretty clear to most people that know me, I've always been a blogger. Even before blogging, I had a journal (you know, that book full of blank paper that people never actually use anymore...). I blogged through my woes of transitioning from middle school to high school, which is hilarious to read now by the way, and used the internet as a way to keep my family up to date on my travels abroad.

So I guess it was inevitable that I'd start a blog on my latest journey: Parenthood. 

Our only family picture to date...2.5 of us anyway!

Coraline. My tiny peanut birthday twin. She'll be 6 weeks old tomorrow (which I guess means I'll be 24 years and 6 weeks old), and since I've finally gotten the newborn thing relatively under control, I thought "We should probably give this 'mommy blog' thing a go." I can't guarantee my updates will be as frequent as they have in past blogs, sometimes I'm sure I'll weigh the options of "sleep" and "blog updates" and choose the former. That being said, I hope this blog will be interesting to people who aren't Cora's parents and that we also don't get creepy internet stalkers stealing our photos!

....Plus, bonus for all of my Facebook friends, I'll stop being that mom who posts 18 pictures of her kid a day because "EVERY PICTURE IS SO MUCH CUTER THAN THE LAST ONE!!!!!". ;)

*ahem*