4 Weeks Later and I'm Still Trying to Get it All Together

Kynslee is 4 weeks old today! I cannot believe it!! We stay so busy that time has just flown by. She is doing very well. I weighed her yesterday on our scale at home (don't know how accurate it is) and she is up to 8lbs. 3 oz. which is exactly a pound more than when she was born! She is still really small and most of her outfits are still too big, but progress is progress. Besides, I don't want her to grow up any faster than she has to. The hardest thing about having a newborn (or maybe it's just being a first-time mom) is trying to not only take care of a baby, but still find time to cook, clean, run errands, etc. It's just within the last few days that I feel like I am getting the hang of getting things done while she sleeps during the day. The only problem with this is that it means that I don't get to nap when she does, which is hard after some nights when she is up several times but you do what you have to do. Running errands with a baby is a lot of work and strategic planning. All through pregnancy you take it easy and can't lift anything real heavy, and then...BAM! After you have the baby you are expected to lug around the baby in the carseat. Putting it in and out of the car, lifting it up into the grocery carts, and if you're lucky enough as we are lugging it up the stairs to your apartment along with all the groceries. There's also the whole strategically planning your outing in between feedings or else you'll be once again stranded in the car feeding a screaming baby. It's funny how much experience you gain in such short time after you have a child! Not to mention all of the hilarious stories you can tell to all your friends. Like the time we had a blowout diaper outside Dairy Queen on the way home from a weekend trip and how poop got all over me, her, and the car seat! Or the time when I actually took the time to shave before my postpartum checkup, but somehow only remembered to shave one of my legs! Life as a new mommy is never dull and always busy. Kynslee has been having a lot of tummy trouble lately. I bought some gas drops yesterday, and have been giving them to here at every feeding and she seems to be doing some better. I can still tell there are times when it hurts her, but she doesn't all of the sudden burst out in an ear-piercing scream until it comes out one end or the other anymore so that's improvement. I am going to cut milk from my diet and see if that helps. I read that milk is one of the most popular things for causing upset stomachs. Something about their stomach not being able to break down the enzymes in the milk. So we shall see if that works. Like I said I was able to get some cleaning done today, and I actually got to bake some banana bread this afternoon while she napped. I got the recipe from Pinterest . I wanted something sweet, and I just happened to have some nearly rotten bananas so I decided to try it. It was delicious! It didn't taste like traditional banana bread, but it also wasn't made like banana bread lol! I liked it because it was quick and easy and I didn't have to throw out my rotten bananas. Don thought it was wonderful. He said anything that had chocolate chips and pecans had to be good. I also made Teriyaki Chicken for supper tonight. It was a meal from my freezer stash. I am so glad that I took the time to make those meals before I had Kynslee. This is the third night in a row that we have eaten something from the freezer and they have all been great. It really helps me out a lot to have all or a majority of the meal already prepared and just have to heat it up and fix a veggie or two to go with it. It's almost as easy as going out to eat.