6 weeks old and RSV update

This morning at 1:15am, Adeline turned 6 weeks old. Fortunately, all was quiet in the house, as everyone was sleeping. She actually slept pretty well last night, which can't be said for many of the nights over the past 2 weeks. During the night she definitely seems to be worse, and I think it is because all those secretions just pool up while she is lying down. She seems like the congestion is getting a little bit better, but she developed a nasty cough a couple of days ago. The way her cough sounds makes me think she has a sore throat. The same time she started coughing, breastfeeding her became very difficult. I guess it was just too hard to do with a sore throat. I was pumping and feeding it to her in a bottle one to two times a day. Thankfully, breastfeeding today is going much better. I just feel bad for her, that half of her life she has been sick. By weighing her on our scale, she is now over 12lbs. Even through being so sick, she is not having a problem putting on weight. I must have some high calorie milk since both of my kiddo's are chunky monkeys while breastfeeding. : ) Her belly button has finally stopped draining so she is going to get her first tub bath either today or tomorrow. I will be sure to take pictures and post them later. She is getting some new hair growing slowly on the top of her head. The bald man ring of hair is still around the bottom. She is now wearing 3-6 month clothes, and is just about to move up to size 2 diapers. I am still waiting on her to feel better before I take her out for her newborn pictures. We have found her new love....the Baby Bjorn. She loves riding around in that thing, and it makes it easier for us to get stuff done around the house. She is starting to smile more and more everyday. Of course, every time she decides to do it, I never have the camera nearby.

Owen is finally feeling better. He is only coughing once or twice a day, and I no longer am having to suction out his nose. He is very thankful for that! I can't believe he will be 20 months old in a couple days. His speech has really taken off, and he is starting to repeat alot of the words we are saying. He still says some words that I can't understand, but it is getting much better. We have started putting him in time out when he acts up. He has to stay in there for one minute, and believe me, sometimes that is the longest one minute of my life. Every time he gets out before the minute is up, we but him right back, and the time starts all over. When we first starting using time out, sometimes we had to put him back 10 times before he would stay there for the full one minute. He tries to be really cute, and smile, slide out of the time out area on his belly, or do somersaults to get out. It is really hard to keep disciplining him when he being so cute, but we stick to our guns. When he gets up in the morning, the first thing he does is search all around the house looking for "baby" and "daddy". Once he finds Adeline, he wants to kiss her, which has been hard since I have been trying to keep the two away from each other while they are sick. I have been having him blow her a kiss instead, or he will kiss her back. Once he is done with Adeline, he then looks around for daddy, and when he can't find him, he goes to the the long window beside the front door and looks out saying, "daddy?" It is too cute! We are going to have to get a chain for all the outside doors since Owen is now unlocking the handle and the dead bolt, and going outside. We have tried the child safety feature for the doorknobs, and he gets them off in about 30 seconds. He is also fascinated right now with taking all his clothes off. I will get him up in the morning, and he will have taken off his pajama's. At least he keeps his diaper on; that could get really messy. He also loves to take clothes out of the dirty clothes hamper in my bedroom and put them on. Most of the time he doesn't put it on correctly. He will have his head in one of my shirt sleeves so that his whole face is covered. Then he walks around the house with the shirt covering his eyes, and just laughs and laughs when he runs into something. What a silly boy!

I have my six week follow up appointment with my midwife on Monday. I still have one undissolved stitch that I called about a couple week ago. The nurse said that I need to sit in a warm bath five times a day for about 10 minutes. I thought, "Yea right, does she realize I have a newborn and a wild 19 month old? When will I find five 10 minutes slots of time during the day to soak in the tub?!" Needless to say I still have not been in the bathtub. I am just thankful for the 5 minute shower I get when George gets home in the afternoon. I am sure things will be better now that the kids are starting to get healthy. I just keep thinking, "this too shall pass."