Well, a lot has happened in the last few weeks.
Gwendalyn is now over 9 weeks old. She's growing up so fast!
She is starting to grow out of her 0-3 month size sleepers. When we were in for her two week check up she weighed 4.81 kg (10.6 lb). She is smiling, playing with her hands, tracking and making long eye contact, she even laughed for the first time on Saturday, and (dare I say it) she is SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT!
I am very excited about the latter. She's been doing it for about two weeks now, and it's great. And not just 5 - 6 hours either. She goes for about 7 to 8, and sometime even 9! And she still naps a lot too and drinks like a fish.
Other then that, the laughing is so cute! She has only done it twice so far, but we managed to get the second time on camera. I'll try and post it sometime. So cute!

As for me, now that she is sleeping longer, I feel like I have the energy to have a bit of a life too.
Two weekends ago I had my first post baby photo shoot that my lovely friend Maple arranged. Lesha joined us too, along with some photographer friends in downtown Vancouver, and it was great. I've really missed doing artistic things since the Little has been around, so it was a really great break for me. I can't wait till she can join me too.






Also, Colin came out with us and spent a few days. Unfortunaitly James got really sick and was in bed for four days. So Colin, Geoffe, Gwen and I spent Sunday at my mom's house because they were away in Tofino. We went for a walks, took photos, raided mom's pantry and made fun of Twilight. We were only planning on spending the afternoon there, but it started snowing like crazy without warning, and we got snowed in! It was pretty great.
Yay to having a social life. I'm glad my friends don't mind hanging out with my baby too :P










Also, the week before that, my dear friend Annemarie came out for a wedding from Winterpeg. She and Diedre came up and we got to spend the whole day together! I only get to to see her about once a year, so it was super fun, but all too short. But we tested out the rope swing up on the Mountain, and it's still going strong and tons of fun :D

Diedre and I rescuing the rope swing that had been caught on a high branch.

Little sleeping in the snugly.

Having fun with all the attention.
Nice fohawk Gwendalyn :p

Taking a nap after a busy day.

It's been a pretty good month, but alas, now I am sick too. Thankfully the Little isn't. Yay for breastmilk and its magical properties.

Zzzz...

I remember for the first few days, when Gwendalyn was sleeping for two hours, waking up, eating, going back to sleep again, I thought that 6 hours in total of sleep a day was enough. Then the initial adrenaline wore off and reality set in.
Now I sleep whenever, and wherever, I can get it. Her sleeping patterns are still all over the map, and thus, so are mine.
And she never just wakes up and eats and goes back to sleep again. She is almost always awake for at least an hour and a half, usually closer to three.
Lately, she has been really happy in the mornings (she is starting to smile and it's so freaken cute!!) and then is really cranky in the evenings.
I tend to watch a lot of TV to keep myself awake in the evenings (and in the wee hours of the morning as well). Lately we have taken to watching Star Trek on Space, which is great. I love Star Trek. It starts at 9pm with the Next Generation which is my favourite, and then Voyager, then Enterprise, on to Deep Space Nine, and then it ends the night (or by then, the morning) with Star Trek the original series. When we make it to the end of that one, it has been a very long evening indeed. Though for the last few nights she hasn't made it past Enterprise, so that's good.
So we spend many hours of the late morning sleeping on the couch. She usally sleeps in her bassinette at night, but she seems to sleep so much better on me, so we both feel much more rested.
And James sure likes to take photos of us sleeping :)









She is sleeping again right now, and something is telling me I should be too.