Celia is growing quickly, we’ll find out on Monday exactly how fast, but she’s developed a bit of a double chin and her clothes look like they’re shrinking by the minute. Diapers too. She’s one heck of a sleeper thus far which is a far cry from how Josie was at this age. So we’re feeling pretty good. She’s fairly predictably awake for about 2 hours once she does wake up during the day, one hour at night for feeding and changing. Then she naps again for 2 hours during the day and 2-4 at night.

She eats, she sleeps, she poops. Not much to a newborn, it’s very clear Josie wishes she would do more and be more awake. So we take some pictures when she finally manages to spend some time awake and some sleeping ones.

Today is Josie’s half birthday! I still didn’t buy her the cupcakes at the grocery store when she asked. I’ll have to write a big long thing out about her development and such but right now I’ll just go for more pictures as Josie’s had a cold, Celia’s got it now, and it looks like Jordi is coming down with it.

We’ve been moving a lot of clothes around with the change of season, so Josie took advantage of the tubs around to play in.

We’ve also been enjoying all the tissue paper included with gifts and made some ‘stained glass’ art work together!

She’s also been enjoying playing some more complicated pretend games like grocery store cashier. She likes to scan everything, you’ll often get more money back than you gave her, but she forgets to bag a few of your groceries too.

Took Celia in to see the doc today and she’s gaining weight like crazy, up to 7 lbs 13.5 oz, that’s up from 7 lbs 2 oz last Wednesday and a birth weight of 7 lbs 9.4 oz. So she’s definitely getting enough milk so I’m not going to worry about her sleeping too much at night, during the day though I’m still going to focus on getting her to eat relatively frequently. And now, gratuitous photos.

Wow more than 50% correct. I don’t think I’d have gotten it right if I hadn’t picked out the pictures myself or noted the eye gunk or picture quality.

Top one (a) was Josie, bottom (b) is Celia.

For those following along in Celia’s development. We had some constipation issues from Tuesday – Saturday which resolved last night thankfully with a major pooptastrophy and a followup today. Now she seems like maybe she’s got the hang of it. Josie has also figured things out again with the potty and has returned to underwear wearing again after a few days of diaper-envy. Tomorrow we go to the doc again to see how much Celia’s gained.

Care to guess?

We’re all doing well. Just busy with the toddler and the regular doctors appointments plus trying to spend more time sleeping. Celia was 7 lbs 9 oz at birth, 7 lb 4 oz on Monday and then 7lbs 2 oz on Wednesday so it looks like her loss rate is slowing down and the doc is satisfied. We go back again on Monday.

Here’s a photo I liked of Josie introducing her baby doll Clara to Celia in the hospital just after Josie got there. Might want to zoom in to see Celia’s expression.

Josie is holding her new water bottle that was a big sister gift “from Celia”. Josie assumed that I also pushed that out along with the baby so we’ve just gone along with that story.

We’re all healthy and we got out ASAP and made it home about 3:30 today, not too shabby considering all the hoops they want you to jump through. It’s great to be home and have gotten a nap in our own bed and stop being bothered for constant questions and checks. Hopefully we can get things back to normal for Josie, or at least the new normal.

Our lovely second daughter, Cecilia Charlie (a.k.a. Celia), was born today October 17th, 2010 at 12:46am. Mom and baby are tired but both doing well. Jen, using the amazing strength I knew she had, succeeded at natural child birth. We haven’t been able to get much rest yet. Hospitals just aren’t designed for rest. Thanks for all the well wishes.

So my fluid level is low, seems to be that my water broke somewhere up high and is leaking very slowly as opposed to the dramatic one last time. I’m having contractions that are stronger, but far apart and some other signs of early labor. But given the low fluid, we’re in for an induction again, hopefully it won’t take much this time and we’ll have the kid a lot faster. Like today would be nice, please? Josie told the baby to hurry up too.