Two Weeks Old

I'm a sucker for black and white photos, especially of our beautiful little Makenna Grayce. As I write this, little Makenna is sitting here on my lap just looking up at me. I just love looking at her beautiful dark blue eyes. Good times. Lately, she has been developing a cycle. She gets a full belly, a clean diaper, and goes to sleep pretty much right away, only to start the cycle over again in 2 to 3 hours. Apparently though night time is the most interesting part of the day for her because she's always looking around at night time. Even in the dark, she will just lay in her bed and look around. Or like two nights ago, Makenna and her daddy had a late night date watching the new Harry Potter movie. She layed beside me for an hour just looking around. Pretty amazing. It's almost like she's just trying to figure the world out. I'm sure she won't stay so quiet for very long but until then, her momma and I will just love every minute of it. That pretty much sums up Makenna's first two weeks of life. Eat, sleep, poop... and look around a whole bunch. :) Haha, good times.

As you all can see, we've added a few more pictures of Makenna to our Flickr site. Today, we crossed over a thousand views since we put the first pics of her on July 1st! Seriously, over 1000 views! That's amazing! She's a popular little girl! Haha. This picture was from when she was under the "Bili" lights to help her get over her case of jaundice (which she did in less than 3 days!). We were able to catch her smiling at something, though we're not sure at what. Kimi thinks it has to do with her getting her first tan, I mean what girl wouldn't smile at that she said? Haha

I wanted to take the time to say thank you to those of you who have taken care of Kimi and I over the last two weeks. We've had three people volunteer to stay with us and take the "night shift" with Makenna so we could get a full nights sleep. Also, we've had at least 10 meals made and delivered to us during this time as well! We especially liked Leah's cookies! MMMMMM! But seriously, we truly appreciate every kind act that you all have given to us. Thank you guys so much!

Our little family is doing so good, it such a blessing. I've got to tell you all real quick about Makenna's bottle feeding time. At first we were feeding her every 4 hours and she was only eating .75 ozs, which isn't much. We didn't know any different because we thought she was just a newborn and how much do they really eat anyway? She'd always fall asleep and didn't seem to want the rest. Well, four days after she was born, the hospital weighed her at 5lbs and 8ozs, which was 10 ozs less than her birth weight. She was still loosing weight so they recommended we wake her up and start feeding her at least 1 to 1.5 ozs every two hours so she could put on some weight. Let me tell you, Makenna absolutely loves this new eating schedule! They told us to feed her until she is through. Well, she just keeps on eating and when we finish a bottle, she looks at us with her mouth wide open and starts grunting for more. She loves it so much she even GRABS THE BOTTLE with both hands and pulls it toward her mouth! Just tonight, she even set a new personal best by eating 5 ounces. FIVE! Tell me, is this normal? We don't go to Makenna's two week check-up until Monday to ask the doc so if you all read this, let us know. I can tell you she's gained well over that 6lb mark they wanted her to be at by today. One side effect from all this eating: She now burps like a champion! As you can probably guess, I'm very proud. Haha

I wanted to share a video with you that we took right after we got home from the hospital. We're all silly in the video but you can really see Makenna checking us out. She's much more alert now but it's still a cute video. Click here to watch it.

God Bless,
Jason