Melanie - Month One

Well if we thought it was hard to find time to post new entries before...now its seems almost impossible!  I do have a lot of time that I'm sitting on the couch now, though...feeding and rocking Melanie.  I guess I just have to learn how to type with one hand!  Things are going good here.  Melanie is growing, slowly but surely. She's a petite little thing!  You can tell that she feels a little heavier, though, and her face and legs look a little chubbier.  Mark went back to work again this week, after having been off for 2 weeks.  After two weeks back at work, he'll have another two weeks off around Christmas.  Having him here was great.  My mom went home after a couple weeks with us, then we went to Auburn the week of Thanksgiving.  Once we got home, it was great having Mark here at home with me.  He did some work around the house, like running electricity to our crawlspace/basement.  Now we have a second refrigerator down there and overhead lighting.  That's Mark's "man-space", so he's happy to finally have good lighting to work by.  So, he was working, but if I needed him to hold Melanie or watch her while I ran out of the house, he was available.  Now, it's just me, Melanie and the dogs.  We're doing pretty good.  I just have to let go of the idea of getting much done.  It's definitely all about her, and not about me being able to get chores done around the house.  Daisy and Lucy are feeling kind of neglected.  Lucy still gets to sleep in the bed (of course!), but other than that, they're playing second fiddle.  A crying baby takes precedence over a crying dog.  Daisy has taken her frustration out on us a couple of times, though.  Twice, we've left the house to go to the grocery store, and she's managed to pull bags of bottles down off the counter to try to eat them.  Not too much damage was done, though, once she figured out it wasn't cookies.  So, here are a few more pictures we've taken of Melanie this past month.  Enjoy!