New pictures

Here are a few pictures from this last week. Adam wanted Tessa to go to bed with him. She wasn't too thrilled.Tessa Joe Cool!
Adam loves to help me make cookies!! His favorite part is licking his fingers.

10 weeks old and a cute new outfit!!!


Adam can't decide what to be for Halloween. Yesterday it was a lion.

SMILE!!!

We finally got some pictures of our girl smiling! She just gets cuter and cuter!!!


This one is for Uncle Jer...this was one of my old shirts from when I was a baby.

Yeah for USC!!!

Eight Week Check Up

Tessa saw her doctor today for her eight week check up. He was glad to see how well she was doing and said that she is a healthy little girl. She weighed 9 lbs (9 lbs 1 1/2 oz on our scale) and is 22 1/2 inches long. She is in the 10th percentile for her weight and the 50th for her height. He said she will probably just be a little girl-somebody has to be the small kid in the class. So much for me getting my chubby baby. I talked with him about our breastfeeding challenge and he encouraged me to keep trying and said that if I could give her breast milk through the winter, that would be ideal. That will keep me going a bit longer.

Adam had a funny moment at the doctors office. He has been asking to go back to see the doctor since I took him in on Monday. He keeps coming up with things that are wrong with him and says, "I need doctor!" So today when I put Tessa down on the exam table Adam said quietly, but loud enough for us to hear, "No baby Tess, my doctor." I laughed so hard! If that is the only thing he has a problem sharing, I think we are pretty lucky.

Goodbye summer!

This week the air turned cold here in Idaho and I am afraid that summer has left us. Tessa was able to wear almost all of her summer outfits and this was the last one she will wear for the year. She is finally wearing 0-3 and some 3-6 month clothes. She is getting long. We have had another frustrating weekend. I tried taking her off the bottle and just breastfeeding. Friday she didn't want anything to do with me, but Saturday she breastfed all day just fine. Sunday morning we weighed her and she had lost an ounce and a half. That was so frustrating to me!! Then Sunday she wouldn't breastfeed at all again. To make things worse, Sunday night came around and I had totally lost my milk supply! Why can't things just work correctly right now? Including my daughter!! So I have been trying to get my milk back for the last two days and have been trying to get in to see a lactation specialist, but I am not having a lot of luck with that. There are days (a lot of them) where I am ready to just give up. It's a good thing she is so cute! My mom came up for a couple of days last week so I could take a couple of naps. It was so nice to have her here and so nice to sleep!! As if there wasn't enough going on, poor Adam is sick with croup this week. He is having a hard time with not getting enough attention. His new thing is coloring. He spends a good chunk of his day coloring and he is pretty good at staying in the lines for a two year old. Tessa has her 8 week check up on Thursday and her blessing is on Sunday. We will let you all know how things go. She should hit 9 pounds tomorrow!!! You have no idea how happy that
makes us. I told her she better be as good as I was when she is a teenager after putting me through all of this.