Today Shelby is 11 weeks old! This week has been fun with her too. She has this adorable personality and loves to smile at you. When she gets upset and is hungry she makes noise (obviously) but then the first minute of nursing she “yells” at me. She makes all kinds of noises and continues to talk until she finally gives in to eating.

She has been taking the binkie and self soothing. I can tell the “I’m tired” cry now and can lay her down and let her soothe herself to sleep.

She loves to sit and stare at things. It cracks me up because she will start talking to her different mobiles. She is fascinated with my cell phone now and loves to stare it while I am on it.

Shelby loves to talk. She sits in her swing, or the play pen and talks away. When someone talks to her she sits and talks back.

The girls had a fun week of just playing with their friends. They even attended their first minor league baseball game with their grandma and papa.

Here is Shelby yesterday – May 18th 2012

This past week was so much fun with the kids, especially Shelby. She just loves to coo and talk to you. She enjoys playing on the floor and watching her sisters dance around, sing and read her stories.

Samantha lost tooth #16 this past week and she did a really good job with state testing. Her teacher showed us her scratch paper and we were very excited to see her trying her best.

Sarah built a diorama for school and we did salt clay for Polar Bears and Penguins. It was a lot of fun.

Shelby has been sleeping better at night and actually taking a nice nap during the day. She is so much fun and has the cutest little personality. We all just adore her and I can not imagine my life without her (or her sisters).

This week Pat and I also started working with a realtor in Texas. In fact he will be leaving June 10th to Texas.

Week 8 and we celebrated Shelby turning TWO months old! Lots of smiles and coos from Shelby! Not a whole lot has changed this week with Shelby except that she has grown! Clothes are getting smaller, headbands don’t slip and she is just so darn cute!

The girls are enjoying the warm spring weather and playing outside.

I have had lots of days where Shelby just doesn’t want to sleep, or she will cry unless you are walking around with her. It gets for an exhausted mommy and a very messy house!

Today Shelby is 8 weeks old! Every day I have noticed something new with her. This week was also much harder with her, she hardly wanted to sleep during the day, and as soon as I would lay her down she would wake up right away. But at the same time she is trying to self soothe more.

She smiles and coos more. On Thursday (7weeks5days) I noticed that she has started to figure out she has hands and has been sucking more on her fists and trying to look at her hand.

Yesterday on Friday, she would try to focus on her hands and cross her eyes.

On Tuesday she was weighted at my last postpartum visit and was 12 pounds even. So in 2 months she has gained 3 pounds exactly!

My big girls are doing great and adjusting well. Sarah is back to her normal sweet self and Sam is a wonderful “biggest” sister. She has her own special way of soothing her baby sister and I love it!

I am in love with her smile, her smell and the way she touches my heart every second of the day.

Well today Shelby is seven weeks old.  This week was wonderful! I see a huge change in Shelby this past week. From her sleeping more,to seeing an actual schedule starting I think she is finally adjusting to life outside the womb.

She also has started enjoying her baths. Instead of sitting through them screaming her head off she lays back and relaxes. She still does not like the top of her head washed but she tolerates her bath the best she can.

She now smiles a lot more and coos. As soon as she sees me in her sight she makes noises at me.

Monday and Tuesday we took the kids to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure and we all had a blast!

On Thursday I took her to the pediatrician (who I just love), to have her baby acne checked out. It’s just baby acne and maybe a small case of a rash from possibly too much detergent and her clothes needing an extra rinse. I even started washing all my tops in dreft since she is in my arms all day.

She was weighed and at 7 weeks is 12 pounds! The nurse assistant tried to measure her and got 24 inches. I need to double check that still at home.