1 week old

Arianna is 1 week old today. It's hard to believe it has gone by this quickly, but it is also hard to imagine that it has only been a week. She has a couple of "long" awake times every day, usually after her first meal in the morning, and then one before bed time at night. Other than that she mostly eats and sleeps. When she is awake she is very alert and looking at everything, when she is asleep she is able to sleep through the chaos of 3 siblings running circles around her bed!

Night time has not been too bad, for most of her nights she only wakes up twice, though she has had a couple of nights of having a hard time falling back to sleep after she eats. I'm sure we will get it worked out though.

I am feeling pretty well, the first week is always the one to just get through, by 2 weeks I am pretty much back to normal, and I am looking forward to that. Faron and I are very aware of the smallness of our house this week, there's nothing like being cramped in a 900 square foot house with 4 kids 4 and under, and a mom who can't do much. We'll make it, I'm sure.

Here are some of Aria's one week pictures.


laying on Mama and Papa's bed



in a not quite so serene moment



Playing with her toys for the first time