Friday, July 11, 2008

Visiting Family and a Found Thumb






So these past couple weeks have been pretty busy.  Peter's sister, Lisa, and her family came to visit.  It was so nice to have them here.  We finally have a house where we can host guests and it passed the test.  We were able to house Lisa, Todd, their three kids and Todd's mom.  I realized while they were here that I haven't spent that much consecutive time with Lisa like that before.  I have done that with Peter's other sister, Christy, but not with Lisa.  I really enjoyed it.  They were here for a couple of nights.  It was so nice having most of the Prantner kids together.  We did miss having Andrew and Miriam with us though.  The visit was extra special becuase it was the first time the new babies were together.  The babies ended up being spaced 4 weeks apart each.  It was amazing seeing how just a few weeks can make a difference in a newborn.  It is going to be really fun watching them grow up together.

This week has been spent recouping from the weekend and developing a normalcy again.  We are almost there.  It wouldn't have been so hard if Jennifer wasn't going through a growth spurt this week.  For weeks she has been sleeping from 9p-6a each night.  Well, this week she has decided to wake up at 3a and then again at 7a.  Needless to say this has totally thrown our schedule off kilter.  Now that I have realized what is going on, I have upped her formula so hopefully we will be back to normal soon.

Jennifer is changing so quickly.  She is loving her bath time and this week she has discovered her thumb (she was putting her fist in her mouth before).  She still doesn't have it quite right yet though (count the number of fingers in the picture).  For some reason the pointer finger always ends up in her mouth with her thumb.  This week she has also started to grab toys and put them in her mouth.  Last week I noticed that her hair is starting to lighten up.  It is turning a golden brown.  I think it will end up looking like Peter's when he was a little boy.  Only time with tell though.  She is growing so fast.