Lydia Grace Barron and Molly Joy Barron

Molly is 9 days old now and SO PRECIOUS! I've gotten an average of about 4 hours of sleep a night since she was born, but most of the time I feel okay. When you're nursing around the clock, trying to also love and care for your toddler where you can, washing clothes and blankets with spit up on them, trying to shower daily, dealing with physical discomfort, etc. there's no time to feel tired. (Yes, I know it sounds like I'm whining, but I think postpartum Mommies are entitled. It's not an easy time, but of course it's a precious time falling in love with your new baby!) Oliver has been wonderful caring for Lydia and our regular chores and loving on Molly, and his Pneumonia is getting better we think. He still sounds awful, but he finished his antibiotics and should be improving.

Lydia appears to be adjusting well to having a new baby in the family. It doesn't bother her to see me hold Molly, and so far there haven't been any conflicts with Lydia wanting my attention while I'm nursing Molly. However...Oliver has been home to distract her and play with when I'm caring for Molly, so we haven't had a true test, yet. I'm obviously still very sleep deprived and I'm supposed to take it easy physically and not lift Lydia or go up and down the stairs too much. So, while I know that soon it will be just me and the girls at home together, I'm not feeling quite ready for that yet! I just know that Molly will need to eat right when Lydia wants me to read her a book, for example, or Molly will need to eat right when I need to take Lydia to school... I guess other Mothers have figured it out before me, and I will too. Grammy and Omi have offered to help a bit with Lydia this week, and then I'll probably be on my own.

As I said, Lydia has been a great big sister so far. The last few weeks though, starting before Molly's arrival, she has been more clingy and wants to be held and carried EVERYwhere. She won't come up the stairs by herself, and won't walk independently to the car, etc. She goes balistic when we challenge her and tell her she has to walk by herself. She used to be so independent, and we're not sure what happened. One theory is that all of our talk about her not being a baby anymore - and being a "big girl" now - has got her regressing a bit. Or, it's just a phase. Not sure.

Lydia likes to reach inside Molly's bed to stroke her head. Very sweet.

After about 60 seconds of enjoying her baby sister this morning, Lydia lost interest. Her flashlight was far more exciting!

Grammy came over to visit Molly this week and I got a couple of great pictures of them together.

Daddy took Lydia outside to play in the snow a little bit yesterday. She liked it for a few minutes, but then realized how cold it was and cried for Oliver to rescue her from it.

That's all for now!