Quick update

I had to take Alex to the doctor yesterday for a two-week check-up. Our doctor had wanted to make sure that she was doing alright and not showing any signs of a GBS infection. (I'm GBS (group strep B) positive and the standard treatment for women to reduce the risk of the baby getting the infection is to receive intravenous penicillin during labour and delivery. But because Alex was born so quickly, I didn't get the drugs so she's been monitored more closely ever since.)

Anyway, she's doing fine and the doctor says there is no longer a need for concern. But the interesting news is how much she's grown in two weeks. Our little miss now weighs 9 lbs 7 ozs (two pounds more than at birth) and has grown a inch in length. No wonder she's already starting to outgrow some of her pjs!

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Two weeks old already

It's amazing how quickly time passes with a newborn in the house, especially since, in reality, I spend most of my days doing nothing much at all.

Alex is doing well, growing well, sleeping (sort of) well. She's great at sleeping in someone's arms or in her car seat and will happily stay asleep for three or four hours if we let her. But put her in her bed, and the most sleep we'll get out of her is two to two and a half hours before she wakes up and wants to eat again. Makes for long nights, but it's par for the course at this age. And during the day, she'll often only stay in her bed for 30 to 60 minutes before waking up; only to fall back asleep in my arms.

Luckily, Austin is a pretty heavy sleeper and has never once woken up when she wakes up in the middle of the night.

Austin is adapting very well to having a sister in the house and shows great concern for her. If she starts crying, he'll immediately tell me to go get her. And if she's in her swing, he'll happily push it -- although we have to teach him to push gently because she's only little. And every night at bedtime, he makes sure he gives her a kiss before heading to bed.

Here are a few new pictures of Alex and Austin over the last two weeks:

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Welcome Alexandra Margaret!

The newest addition to the Evans family arrived at 4:27 a.m. on April 10. Alexandra Margaret weighed in at 7 lbs. 8 oz. and is 21 inches long.

She came into this world in a hurry. Mom woke up in labour at 1:30 a.m. and woke dad up at 3 a.m. By 3:30 a.m., we realized that we needed to go to the hospital, so we called our friends who were on emergency-middle-of-the-night-Austin-duty to come over. They arrived just before 4 a.m. and we rushed off to the hospital, walking into the labour and delivery assessment room at 4:20 a.m. Seven minutes later, she was born!

Aside from realizing that Alexandra came 'this close' to being born in the car on the side of the 401, everything is fine. Both mom and baby are home and doing well.

Austin met his new little sister for the first time at the hospital and has been doing very well with her at home. He gets very concerned everytime he hears her crying and when she's sleeping in someone's arms he will give 'baba A-e' kisses on the head.

Here's a few pictures taken at the hospital:

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Our big boy in his big boy bed

Well it's official, Austin now sleeps in his new 'blue' room every night in his big boy bed. The transition ended up being as easy as it was that first night he crawled into his new bed. The blue room became his room, just like that.

The first few nights, he didn't realize he could get out of bed -- so when he woke up in the morning, he'd sit in bed and call to us. But now, he knows he can get out of bed and every morning, he climbs out of bed and knocks on the door while calling 'mommy' or 'daddy' until one of us opens the door for him. Of course, then there's the days when he doesn't want to nap and just gets out of bed and hangs out by the door until someone lets him out! I guess that's the downside to being in a big boy bed.

Now that Austin's all moved into his room, his old room has been turned back into a baby room. The 0-3 size clothes are in the drawers, the newborn diapers on the shelf and the spit-up blankets in the closet. All that's missing is a baby -- which seems to be stubbornly hanging in there until at least my due date and knowing my luck, probably longer.

This will likely be my last until we're a family of four. Then there'll be new baby pictures to share and a this blog will need a new name to include the entire family.

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