A new life; same as the old life?

I know, shock and horror right, how dare I write a post that is not about AJ. Well of course, no post in my new life will be complete without at least a little AJ. This past weekend, we decided to take a little road trip, if you call 1000 miles in 4 days, with MIL, dog, baby and wife, little! We were hoping to take Jan (MIL) away, for her last weekend in the country until Christmas, on a trip to see the fall colours, although most common sense was telling us that they had already passed their best, and like common sense mostly is, it was true. Although that didn't stop us having fun. We took off early on Friday morning, well early by our new standards, around 8am, bound for Grand Haven, approximately a 4-5 hour drive according to the Tom Tom. Of course that doesn't factor in stopping for feeding every three hours, and that taking 30-45 minutes between, feeding, changing and burping, but enough about my personal habits! We stopped en-route at an outlet mall that had been recomme...

Almost a month old already, and thankfully we won't be much longer until we are through that first two months of yelling for no apparent reason, although some days she is great, eats, sleeps and sh**s on schedule. It has been a month of firsts.. Saw her Cubbies unceremoniously dumped out of the play offs by the Diamond Backs, who were treated with the same disdain by the Rockies..go Rockies! Hopefully she will see a few World Series with her dad over the next few years, especially with all the Cubs stuff she got, including an awesome hand made blanket by my friend Annie. She had her first public engagement, out to a party at her US godparents house, check out the pictures ; that's Jody feeding AJ. She was quite the picture in her little Osh Kosh hoodie. Daddy got very drunk (a whole bottle of Soco Charlie) and fortunately mummy was past the day for being able to drive again. She had her first sponge bath and yelled throughout, I hope she comes to like the bath time stuff, else...

No she isn't two yet, if she was we would have gotten a bit more sleep. The terrible twos I talk about is the start of her second week, where she went from a regular three hour feed/sleep regime, to hours of sleeping and eating followed by hours of screaming the house down for hours on end. Feeding her more, changing her, stripping her naked and redressing her (learnt that at class) rocking her, walking around, you name it, we did it. 3am until 6:30am one morning, and then midnight to 4am the next. No pattern, no rhyme, no reason. As you can see, Reggie is very impressed! There are a few more pictures here, keep checking them out. We went to the pediatrician this week for her second check up, and she has put on over a pound in a week, the little porker. She is already up to 9lb 1.5oz, and has grown to 20.5" Oh yeah, apparently the doctor says that she will "be fussy" for the next 6 weeks! Lorraine has gone into much more detail in her posts, over at her blog , hea...

The Cubs have gotta win today. Yes folks, it's crunch time. The Cubs have to win the next three games to keep our hopes alive. AJ, the Cubs youngest fan at only 7 days old by game time is supporting her team in style. I have also posted a few more pictures in her first week old folder. Click here to see some new ones. All together now, "Go Cubs Go, Go Cubs Go; Hey Chicago Whaddayasay Cubs Are Gonna Win Today!"

Now, you all be sure to tell me when you get bored of me talking about my beautiful new baby daughter! The first few days of life were pretty relaxed, some feeding, a lot of sleeping, recovering from the trauma of birth..we thought, this is a piece of cake, isn't she great! Condell even brought us a special celebratory dinner for two, steak, champagne, etc, on the evening before we checked out. We had lots of visitors, AJ's US god parents, friends and of course Nanny Jan. Towards the end of the second night, Addison still hadn't peed, a big no-no in new baby land. Apparently they are supposed to have one pee per day old, although I am not sure how long that rule applies, cos adults would spend all day on the toilet if it kept going! The doctor advised us to feed her formula on the 2nd night, to be sure she was getting enough food, and sure enough, about 3 hours later she wet her nappy. Great, I thought, not too much. So I started to change her, and forgot the cardinal rule....