Kons Chaos: 05/01/2006

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Mommy and Lariska

This one's pretty darn cute and I didn't upload it last week - oops!

Sleeping

Kyrie playing with her "babies"

Working hard

Jackson rocking Lariska's carseat

Saturday, May 27, 2006

In a perfect world...we would be sleeping through the night already, right? Well, actually I think that is not good for such a little bean, however, I am happy to report that she is now doing four hour stretches in the night. She wakes up generally around 2am, we change her diaper, nurse for about 15 minutes and then she is straight back to sleep. In all, I am usually up about 25 minutes. After that, she tends to get up again around 5am (with the sun?) and then is back down till around 9am. Not a perfect world, but I am certainly not going to complain! She is not even three weeks old yet....okay, give her 5 more hours and 20 minutes!

Riska

Kyrie kissing "Riska" as she likes to call her

Getting ready for bed - storytime

Lariska taking only her 2nd bath since being home from the hospital. Matt took Kyrie to the grocery store and I got some much-needed quiet time with my newborn. Plus, the bonus that she fell straight asleep after her nap and now I have a chance to blog for a few minutes!

Matt and Lariska

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

The Witching Hour

Between the hours of 4:30pm and 7:30pm have become known in my mind as the Witching Hour (or three hours). This is the time when Kyrie starts to get very restless. Lariska inevitably wakes up from her nap and is chomping at the bit. Dinner needs to be made. Daddy comes home from work. It's time to get ready for bed. Our semi-calm afternoon turns into chaos very quickly.

I think I should therefore announce that the Kons Family will no longer be accepting phone calls between 6:00pm and 7:30pm. Unless, of course, Matt happens to have a hand free and can't stand the thought of not answering the phone. I, on the other hand, will be letting it ring.

The Witching Hour shall not make a witch out of me!

Little One

Here is our little one at 2 weeks and 3 days old. She is such a little bean. I have taken to calling her "string bean", "beanie baby" and "little one". We'll see if any of those nicknames stick.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Life Update

Well, Lariska has been in the world just a bit over a week now and though life has changed tremendously we are doing pretty good. In general, she is going about 2.5 hours straight in the night before waking up to nurse. Not awesome, but doable. She had her first pediatrician appt. last week Thursday (At 5 days old) and was back up to her birthweight. The Ped. said that was pretty remarkable and that because of it she doesn't need to see us at 2 weeks. So, it will be June before we get another update on her progress. She also told me to cut back on the feeding a bit, since Lariska was obviously hitting it pretty hard! The first couple of days she was because I was basically just trying to make life simple for Kyrie with less crying from the baby. But, now we are on a 2.5 hour cycle and that seems to be going well.

Kyrie has had a couple of episodes that were obviously attention-deprivation related - usually involving ripping the pages from a book. We are working on this, but life is never going to be quite the same for the Lovebug and I feel bad for her...but, not bad enough to let her rip her books to shreds! Please don't bring it up to her as she doesn't need more scolding. She just needs your love and attention through this adjustment period. And, I thank you so much for giving it to her!

I am currently ecstatic because both of my daughters are down for a nap at the same time....I should be sleeping, too! Guess I better run and take advantage of this...