Today was a big day for Kayden. First, she and I sleep 8 hours in a 10 hour period. We woke up three times during the night but each time was 40 minutes or less of awake time. I consider this a GREAT accomplishment! I haven’t really been implementing too much of the training techniques because I’m not quite sure she’s adjusting to them. I am nursing most of the time so I’m not able to determine how many ounces she is taking in. Also, she is cluster feeding (yes, I’m still a cow!) and she’s getting a lot of calories in the day, which I think is helping the night hours. She feeds around 8:00 or 9:00 each night and she is pretty consistent about going 4 hours until her next feeding. From there she is averaging three hours between feedings. So I am luckily sleeping about 8 hours each night. Yes!! This morning I had a quick meeting for work so we both needed to eat and have our showers/bath by 8:30. Since we had 8 hours of sleep by 6:00, this was actually not too difficult. Kayden loves bath time fun!
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The second major event for today was Kayden purposely smiled at Mimi! We were changing her diaper right after Mimi got here and she walked over to Kayden and said her high pitched “Hi Kayden, it’s your Mimi! I’m here to play with you!” and Kayden looked over and smiled a huge smile. Now, had Kayden not given me three (of the four attempts!) smiles yesterday I might have just let Mimi think it was a smile at her, but secretly known it was just gas. Since I got three purposeful smiles the day before and a few right before she got here this morning, I knew it was on purpose! Kayden did smile at Mimi!
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And the third and final great occurrence today was that Kayden met her great grandparents. I consider myself extremely lucky to have 4 amazing grandparents around to share my life with. Kayden was able to meet my maternal grandparents this afternoon. My grandpa was so in love with Kayden from the second I brought her out of the car. I was so amazed at how enamored he was with my daughter. He was grinning from ear to ear and I just felt so proud to be the one to introduce him to his first great grand child. My grandparents are going through a transition of selling the house they have lived in for 30 years to be moved to an incredible independent living facility that will enrich their lives and allow them to begin a new journey. I was so excited to show off my daughter to them in their home where they have watched their grandchildren grow up. Kayden is lucky to have such great people as her great grandparents! Today was a great day for three generations of Finn-Mihelich-Hatcher women. I am truly blessed!
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