Legends of Noodles and Leprechauns: J's First Year

So with Jaycelyn's 2nd birthday quickly approaching, my goal to have the blog "caught up" is becoming a major rush. So I am going to attempt to share J's first two years before her birthday next month. Who thinks I can do it?

Well I'm kind of off to a good start... I have written about her birth! And trying to remember all that followed only reminds me more and more why I wanted to start this blog. And pictures help, but considering that our little princes broke our external hard drive with all of our pictures files, that is proving quite difficult as well. We were able to have most of the files recovered, but now there are no dates and they are in no kind of order. So not to self (and all of you) make sure you back up all of your photos!

Jaycelyn's first photo shoot of many, many more!

First family portrait by Scott Baxley

Jaycelyn was an excellent newborn baby. In fact our most difficult challenge in the first few weeks was getting her to wake up to eat. She would go hours without waking. And I'll never know why those crazy nurses at the hospital tell you to wake your child to eat every three hours in the middle of the night to eat. I remember actually setting an alarm to wake up to desperately try to wake J up for a feeding. That lasted all of like two nights. We let her sleep and she has pretty much slept through the night since the beginning. I contribute this a great deal to co-sleeping. Best decision we've every made in a half comatose state.

Our little sleeping beauty!

Her first big adventure (as with most newborns) was bath time. I have never seen a newborn ENJOY (you read that right) a first bath. But J loved it. She only cried a little the first time I put water over her head. Other than that, she just hung out.

We discovered cloth diapers when J was almost 10 weeks old. The third best parenting decision we every made (one being breastfeeding, two being co-sleeping). You can read all about why we cloth diaper on my HootyCutie blog.