Faye is officially 5 weeks! YIPPIE! 9lb and 4oz and now 22in long!

So little miss Sarah Faye Glancy is officially 5 weeks today! akkkkkkkkkkkk how time fly's. So rewind right? When we first got home from the hospital it was great (hmmm it sounds like by the way I wrote that that it isn't now right? LOL nope still great) but it was great because Jordan took a week off of work to spend his loving'ness with us (smile). So that first week was great! other than my cry fests and I am convinced it wasn't anything other than my pure love for Faye...no it was bit baby blues or postpartum...I just kept thinking of how my little girl was growing already and how I just wanted her to stay 1 day old forever and never leave me and never hurt. I also cried because I was thinking of how someday it would just be Jordan and I again and all our kids would be gone, also how someday she wouldn't just want me to hold and hold her and how someday I couldn't just sit and stare at her for hours without being a weirdo and how I didn't want to loose that. LOL...anyways the more she has changed the more I love it. I know that with every great thing that is left behind you gain a new great thing with the new stage/age to love and adore. I just want to have it all I guess, I want one child of every age...up until they leave I suppose. Well so that is that update regarding me and the first week and my tears.

Life is BLISS. Faye is bliss (smile) and she is amazing and such an awesome little girl already. She has her melt downs like everyone but that is when mommy or daddy is being mean and hasn't fed her or she is over tired...tech it could be gas but if we feed her she stops 100% of the time so I don't know I am just going with the flow I suppose. So life the past 5 weeks. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm so Faye is amazing...it's funny how you get to know your child as she is in your womb vs. how she is outside of the womb right? Faye moved 24/7 when she was inside of me, I mean 24/7, Reese told me once that she probably moves in her sleep and I thought gosh what a concept you are totally right! I really thought (call it the blond in me) she never slept. LOL. Well she slept when I did because was able to sleep for most of my pregnancy just fine, even up until her date of birth. So Faye 'now' still moves and figits all the time, awake and asleep, which is probably super normal but it's still something to let you guys know about. She also had hiccups ALL THE TIME WHILE IN MY BELLY and hahaha SHE STILL DOES. Bobbye brought over this stuff called gripe water which makes your hiccups go away and IT TOTTALLY DOES! lol I never would have something could cure hiccups especially something made out of herbs. So anywho I don't use it all the time, we've used it like hmmmm well I don't know we use it seldom because when she gets the hiccups it usually occupies her awake time for longer periods of time vs. non hiccup awake time...not sure why that is but it works for me. (smile). The thing that has stressed me out the most was during wk 2 and 3 were the color of her poops. There were a few times where it was green and that just freaked us out so thoughts like is she getting enough milk, is there something wrong with my milk, is she getting for milk?...the list could go on. So I did a few tests : tried formula for a day and pumping and stuff like that but always the same outcome so that was a relief to know that it wasn't really me maybe just some kind of poop phase she was going through which it ended up being...relief of Faye is that she is a way good pooper which I know has to feel good.(smile)...yah!! One of Faye's coolest gifts is that she hasn't ever been awake at night. She has woken up for a change and feeding and gone right back to sleep. So because of this every night STILL I get worried that "is this going to be the night where she keeps me up or that she wakes up and won't go back to sleep" :) we shall see I am sure there will be one, I would think it impossible that there should not be right? Faye also does great with the bottle which is great because that enables Jordan the opportunity to feed her (which is my favorite thing in the world) and he loves it as well...and it allows me to get out and do errands and workout (yes I have been running since the day before week 3 and it feels super great, Florida weather is the best and oddly the mornings lately have been super cool, ok back to Faye). She also will take the binky...we started her on that around week 3 and 4 when she was having more awake time and seemed to still root even though she wasn't eating as much or what not. Speaking of latching my little Faye latched at first try, HUGE relief to me as that was my #1 worry going into this whole motherhood life-o-roo. We've gone for a few walks and a few runs...she doesn't last long sometimes but that is ok it's a work in progress. As of the 27th she holds up her head with no wobble...it is and was the weirdest thing ever. It was like one day her head wobbled and the next it didn't...craziness really. She makes the cutest noises ever. The newest one is that when she is about to sneeze and doesn't LOL and then it slowly tapers off into a girly sigh kind of noise. I need to catch it on video and post it on here but not sure how to do that but I am going to still try. She still sleeps for 18-20hours a day (3-7 hours at a time) and feedings are longer as well which is helpful because I don't have to work at keeping her awake anymore (and I never had the heart to get her naked to keep her awake, didn't seem nice to do so I couldn't do it (tear)). She still wears new born clothes and she is now 20 inches and 8.5 lbs. She HATES being naked so that means she hates 90% of her diaper changes and 100% of prebath and post bath time BUT loves bath time. She smiled for the first time on the September 2nd for her Grandma Kitty :) tried to get a picture of it BUT I'm just not that quick. GR very aggravating. I give her one bottle of formula a day, gives me relief that a) she'll take it and b) to know how much she is exactly getting. Her favorite spot is my shoulder and often times we clean together and she falls asleep there. She falls asleep anywhere no matter how loud or quite it is (thank gosh!, Jordan has done great with helping me with that and I thank him for that). She loves the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and Jimmy Buffett...lol...well not really that is just what we listen to during the day but I like to think she loves them already. We have a bear that is in the bassinet with her that plays the sounds of the womb so that is what she listens to right now and eventually we plan on using something like classical music or white noise...just need to decide which we want to use. More and more people think she has strawberry blond hair...but I say it depends on the lighting (smile) I personally think it would be way cool for her to have strawberry blond hair. We were surprised she even had hair becuase both of us have super fine/thin hair. And even better is that it hasn't fallen out yet and no random balled spots yet.

HER DADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD is the greatest thing to happen to her life since well she was in Heaven I suppose. I didn't change once diaper for the first week of her life and haven't really changed any evening diapers either when he is home he gets up in the middle of the night and changes them for me and brings her to me to feed :) He is so great with everything and helps me with so many great ideas of how to do this or how to do that it's just such a blessing I can't stand it. He was amazing during the whole birth process as well. He was there for me in such a perfect way and it warms my heart to no end that I have him in my life for eternity. To watch him with his little girl and see him grow and love her and cry for her just warms my heart and I can only home to be the kind of parent he already is. Recently, the 28th, Faye and Jordan were lying on the bed together and Jordan was looking at her lying on his side and Faye on her back wide eyed looking at him just hanging out...As I watch this from start to finish...Jordan was the first to fall asleep then I was like great he's asleep and she isn't LOL and I was all kinds of ready as I was sure she'd start not wanting to be there anymore out of boredom, wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself, but Faye went from being really awake to really asleep! LOL so a week ago was the first time she fell asleep on her own (no help of any kind at all). It was the GREATEST thing yet to see them be this way together. Jordan is the best husband and gosh I just can't say it enough of how great he was for me at the hospital and how great he has been for Faye...we're a good pair if I should say so myself...nice and opposite but where it counts. He just loves her so much and I just love that.

here are just some random pics...I know I need to post others but I just haven't had time to get on to Jordan's PC to upload them...so I will try to super soon. xoxo

sleep time

more sleep time LOL

Sleep time again (same day as above abviously)

her first walk

she was 3 weeks here.

week 3 again

Faye hungry

Juanita visiting me in the hospital

Faye is about 3.5 hrs old here

Faye is about 2hrs old here

she was 1.5hrs old here

Aunt Bridge visiting Ms. Faye

2.5 hours old or so

Faye sleeping still LOL