I have a lot of thoughts. This seems like a good place to put them. For any family members or friends who are interested in our day to day lives, work, school, and how Elizabeth is doing, this is the place for you. I can't promise the posts will be long, nor interesting, but I find myself with too many Facebook worthy status updates to still consider myself a respectable human being. I mean come on, no one wants to hear that much about my baby. But in case you do...
Adam and I have come to the conclusion that Elizabeth has a cycle of uber cranky times. 5 days. What was that creepy movie with the "Seven daaaayssss...." girl? Because that's what it's like. All week, with every night time cry fest, we worry it won't stop until 3am. Luckily that only happened one night. But it was horrible. Let me tell you. Adam came to get me during his "shift" and said he needed me. I came out into the living room and went to take the baby. He said, "No, I don't need you to take her, I just missed you. I need you here so I won't kill the baby." Now I hope anyone who reads this knows both Adam and I well enough not to straight up call CPS. We're not going to kill our baby folks. But any parent knows screaming babies are stressful, especially at 3am.
But like I said, that only happened once. The second time was 5 days later and she stayed up until 12:30. Then there was last night when she had trouble falling asleep until 11:00. When she can't get to sleep, her limbs twitch uncontrollable like a crack head going through withdrawls. Have I considered drugging my baby to get her to sleep? Yes. Is that why she's a crazy person some nights? No. Irene (Adam's mom) said he was the same way. That statement was less than comforting because Adam was severely colicky and, let's face it, no one wants their baby to be compared to a colicky one. But I digress. It seems like every 5 days she has a really hard night and then the day after, she's a little cherub (that's a baby angel people. Keep up.) And, each time she has a hard night, it gets a little easier. So we're hoping this whole cranky time business is on its way out.
So that's what's going on in the baby department. In other news, Adam is still studying hard for his CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and takes the test in Seattle in December. That same week he's also going on his first business trip. I'm really proud of him. My husband is going on a business trip. How adult is that? I'm still taking a class through the Salt Lake Center at BYU which, even though it's only once a week, is really hard with Elizabeth. But we're doing it and we're doing really well.
Parenting is amazing and we are both so happy and so blessed. Thanks to everyone who has helped us with this transition to parenting. It's a lot easier than I anticipated thanks to our support system.
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