3 and a half weeks

Life is going by fast. Tilly is growing fast and strong, gaining maybe a pound a week. She is a very calm baby, not getting upset, onlyl occasionally a little protest about a diaper change. She's also very grunty, all night long she seems to be making noise, not sure if she's uncomfortable or just trying to figure out how her insides work. When she first came she seemed to calm if we sang to her. I feel like I can almost garauntee I can put her to sleep if I hold her and march, so maybe she lives up to her name: Strength in battle, our little valkerie. Finn is starting to feel a little jealous, he's not liking that someone is always holding her. (He has also been sad that he himself won't be able to give birth) But overall we're adjusting well. Oliver tells everyone that he trained her to hold onto his finger. The first few weeks she was still breathing quickly, but we took her in and the Doctors weren't worried. I am not getting nearly as much time in babyland as I would like. Still, the chances when I get to just sit and hold her, or in the middle of the night when I'm patting her back down after changing her, are very sweet. I feel like she looks intelligent, when she stares into my eyes it feels like there are gears turning, at least until she makes one of her funny cross eyed looks. One of her most common expressions is a very tiny mouth, like she's trying to learn to whistle. She's very strong, able to hold her head up for a good amount of time, ever since she was born. Francesca has commented that her head was smaller than that boys, so maybe it's not that she's exceptionally strong, maybe she just doesn't have as much weight to contend with. Commonly, I change her at 11 when I go to bed, 1am and then she grunts for an hour keeping me u, then Finn calls me in at 4 and needs me to sleep in his bed, then Francesca changes her at 5, Oliver wakes up at 7:30 and gleefully goes and visits everyone, waking up Finn who now literally kicks me out of bed, so I go and switch with Francesca I cuddle Rose while she cuddles Finn, and then we're off and running into a new day. Starting to find the balance, a few weeks until school starts, we're all doing well overall.

Finn practicing with a sling