Growth Spurt

Well, it's been a while since I blogged last, here are a few things that have been going on in our lives:

Basketball, basketball, football, and a little more basketball.  :)  As many of you know, I bought Michael season tickets to the K-State men's basketball games.  We have been up to Manhattan a lot lately watching games.  We're enjoying our time together and Cathy and Mama have been enjoying the opportunity to babysit.  The men are doing really well!  Should be a good season!  I can't wait to see what we can do once we get to conference play.  :)

Shopping!!!  As Thanksgiving approaches, I have been getting my Christmas shopping taken care of.  :)  Avery and I are out once or twice a week shopping and getting our gifts bought.  We're having a GREAT time!!  Also, Avery does REALLY well on these trips, sleeping through most of them.  We usually only have to stop once or twice for a diaper change and a bottle, and the rest of the time we're go, go, going!  :)

Great sleeping through the night!!  Avery has been trecking along, getting more and more hours of sleep every night!  At 5 weeks she was sleeping 6-8 hours at a time during the night.  But between 5 and 6 weeks she REALLY stepped it up!  She would sleep 8-10 hour stretches!!  It is/was awesome!  Shortly after she hit these nice long strides, the growth spurt hit and thing have temporarily changed, but I'm sure we'll be back to nice long restful nights soon!  ;)  She's been such a great baby! 

Growth spurt!  :)  In the last few days Avery has been going through her 6 week growth spurt.  We didn't really notice much of a change in her or her behavior when she grew around 3 weeks (when the books tell me the first growth spurt takes place), but boy we know something's different now!!  :P  She never seems to be able to get full.  She's eating every 1-2 hours during the day and every 4-6 hours at night.  Now this isn't too bad, because we're still getting lots of good sleep at night, more or less all we've done is add one more night feeding.  So she's not sleeping as well as she was, but from what I've read, these spurts usually last 3-7 days, and then she'll be back to her normal happy self.  :)  I'm just trying to be patient and persistant in this process.  Patient with her and a bit more fussiness than we are used to, and persistant with nursing and trying not to cave in and supplement the formula, which will ultimately only decrease my supply.  We will see how things go.  This is day 3 of the spurt.  I'm hoping she's back to her normal happy self by Thanksgiving.  But we shall see.  ;)

That's about all that's new with us.  :)  Looking forward to Michael having a short week at work and a long weekend with us.  And a week from today I go back to work.  :(  I enjoyed maternity leave and all of my great time with my baby girl.  It will be nice to get back out there and see my work friends again, but it will also be hard leaving my sweet girl.  I just hope the transition goes well.  :)

Of course, I have more pictures of Avery!  Enjoy!  And we'll see most of you for Thanksgiving this week!  Love you!  :D