You remind me of the babe!

Can anyone guess what movie this quote is from? This movie was one of my favorites growing up. Anyways I was at Gap in the fall and saw this outfit which is very similar to the outfit the baby wore in this show, so I had to purchase it of course.  Jill, a good friend, suggested that we could use this as a halloween outfit for a family theme of this movie.  The problem would be deciding who would dress the David Bowie part, the spandex are quite a scary thought.  I don't think this idea will make it, thank goodness. :-)  Know what movie I'm talking about?

In the clips below Abby is sporting the cute outfit.  Bright colors really seem to shine on her with all that dark hair.

Little sneezes:

Sleep, How I Miss You!

Abby is four weeks old, as of yesterday.  We continue to work on the sleep issue. This week has been a little rough on Sunday and Monday nights I only got around 2 1/2 hours of sleep. I'm learning the hard way that you truly do need to sleep when the baby sleeps instead of trying to get other things done, otherwise you don't get sleep.  

Last night though was a much needed break!  We had a fantastic dinner at some friends house and Abby was fascinated by the new surroundings. She was up for about 2 1/2 hours (probably one of her longest awake stretches so far!!!).  It paid off, I got a 4 1/2 hour stretch of wonderful sleep .  I remain hopeful that we will have an awake day so tonight may repeat last night.

When Abby is awake she is so much more alert.  She looks as though she focusing on things, where early on her eye would be open but there wasn't purpose behind them.  She is especially fascinated by fans and windows.  

Here are some new pictures of little Abby.

 Allie decided she needed to be in this picture as well.

Abby is ready for summer.

Abby throughly enjoying Easter.

I love the silly faces that she makes.

This one somewhat looks like a smile, although truthfully I think she was just about to cry here. She was done with pictures.

Also here is a short clip of Abby looking around. Notice at one point she follows the camera as I move it.

Home Alone

Tuesday was my first day to be home alone with Abby.  Things went really well.  It is funny, I felt like I was busy all day, but when I looked back on what I had done I don't think I accomplished a whole lot.  Taking a shower and getting laundry done takes a lot more effort now with worrying about Abby and soothing her if she starts to cry.  

On the sleeping front, she loves to sleep...during the day.  On Tuesday she slept for 5 1/2 hours in the middle of the day and of course since she had gotten all of that sleeping out of her system she was up about every hour and a half, this made for a long night. Hopefully we can work on turning this around. 

Abby had her two week doctors appointment yesterday and she a healthy little girl.  The doctor said they like to see babies back to their original birth weight and she surpassed that and is now 9 lbs 8 oz and 21 in. long! 

And now a few photos...

My mom got this dress for Abby, we put it on Abby before she had to fly back home.  It's still a little big for her, but it's still cute.

Abby is so tiny! 

Sleeping like the best of them!