7 week update

This post has been in the making for 2+ days now. It's gone something like this: upload pictures, shower, feed baby, run errands, feed baby, clean kitchen, eat dinner, feed baby, upload more pictures, feed baby, go to sleep, wake, feed baby, shower, madly try to finish blog post before baby wakes...you get the picture.

We spent Thanksgiving with David's family. It was our first Remillard gathering since all of the kids were born. Things were definitely more chaotic than usual, but we managed to get some good group pictures.



Although we were up at 5:30am, we skipped the Black Friday shopping. We packed up and headed for Hanford around 9am. We had intentions of going to the Christmas parade, but the weather was kind of icky so we decided to stay in and enjoy the Turkey leftovers. On Saturday Ryan and Patty came over to visit for a while. We made paper hats. (I wonder if Ryan would be happy with newspaper and a cardboard box for Christmas? he is easily entertained).




We took Natalie to the AG Christmas parade on Sunday night. We got there later than we wanted because they closed the road from our house to the village, but we still got curb-side seats. We bundled Natalie up; she was pretty much awake and watched the whole parade. Maybe we'll make this an annual tradition!



Also, Natalie and I played dress-up last week. My mom saved the dress and blanket that I came home from the hospital in and gave it to me at my baby shower.





Natalie has a Dr. appointment next week...Based on my mom's home scale, she weighs around 10lbs 6oz. She's been holding her head up pretty well and giving us smiles here and there since about week 5. She coos and smiles a lot in the morning and gets kind of grumpy at night. Although the slumber party was fun, we moved her into her crib in her room at night. She started making quite a bit of noise while falling asleep and waking up and now we all get more sleep...our nightly routine has been to wake up once at 3ish.