Our growing family...: Back to Bayside

It's been a while since I lasy updated the blog, but we have been busy!

(picture-Aunt Kyoko holding Cairo and I am holding Cousin Mei) On Friday, we made the long trip up north to our house in Bayside (Eureka/Arcata area). It's good to be back. Cairo did an amazing job on the long ride north.

She slept most of the way and we were able to get away with making only 3 stops. On the way up north, Cairo had the chance to meet lots of family. In fact, in the last five days, Cairo has met all five of her great-grandparents, her Grandma and Grandpa Dedini, her Uncle Nick, Aunt Kyoko, Cousin Mei (only five weeks older), a few of my cousins, my uncle, and both mine and Erik's best friends. It has been quite a week.

Grandma Jill and Cairo-

We are all adjusting well to being up north. Erik and I are trying to get the house put back together after everything had to be moved out to refinish the floors. At this point it seems like the never ending job. When did we aquire SO much stuff? Cairo is getting into more of a routine.

She wakes up once in the night, around 2 or 3, to feed, sleeps four to five hours, feeds, takes a morning nap, is awake for an hour or so, feeds, takes an afternoon nap, is awake and looking around, feeds, takes a quick evening snooze, feeds, goes to bed... The following is a picture of Cairo sleeping in her new crib with her glo worm.

Over the past fews days, Cairo has done a better job at taking naps in either her crib, bassinet, or on a blanket on the floor. Before, she wanted to be held the whole time. I think that she finds her bassinet cozy and comfortable. It is the same bassinet that her Daddy and Uncle Nick used when they were babies. Today, we brought the bassinet out into the main living area of the house so that Cairo could be near us as she slept. We put on a variety of music as we were working on cleaning up the house and she just slept away. She seemed to particularly sleep well to Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones, and the Classical Guitar...

as well as the humming of our very loud and very old dishwasher. Next picture- Cairo sleeping in her bassinet with her hat falling into her eyes.

Yesterday, Erik and I took Cairo to the doctor's office to have her weight checked. The first week, she lost 8 oz and was down to 6 lb 6 oz. The next week, she only gained 1 oz and we had to supplement all her meals with formula. Well, one week later Cairo made up for lost time by gaining a whole pound in a week.

So, we now have a chunky monkey at 7 lb 7 oz. Her face is getting really full (especially her cheeks) and her dad swears she is getting a (how should I spell it) Ba-donk-a-donk (and for those of you who have not heard this, it means a butt). So, she is very healthy and doing great... what more could you ask for.

Cairo lost her cord at 10 days, but we were waiting to make sure everything had dried up nicely before giving her a real bath. While at Grandma Jill and Grandpa Lee's, Uncle Nick facilitated Erik and I giving Cairo her first real bath. Even though her face got dunked once, she didn't seem to care and really seemed to like her bath... maybe we DO have a little waterbaby/ surfer girl!