Living with McKinley

It's been fun adjusting to life with McKinley. The first few days after we brought her home from the hospital were kind of rough because she had her days and her nights mixed up. Starting about 11pm she'd be awake and wouldn't want to go to sleep and stay asleep no matter what we did! Luckily, we had Travis's mom here to help us and take a night shift to allow us to get some sleep. Naps during the day were a must those first few days! We all got a little silly from a lack of sleep! We had a few good laughing spells which made our lack of sleep a little more bearable!

Travis exhausted

Grandma Hulse who helped us survive those first few sleepless nights!

After about 4 sleepless nights, she finally got things figured out and started to sleep at night! She still would wake up every 3 to 4 hours to eat, but that's what babies are supposed to do! Waking up every 3 to 4 hours is so much better than only sleeping 3 to 4 hours a night! She's gotten into a routine and has been doing great sleeping since then!

We were also able to give McKinley her first bath. We had to give her a sponge bath since we didn't want to get her umbilical chord stump wet so it'd fall off (which it has now). She didn't enjoy her first bath too much, as you can tell by the picture! She's getting better and starting to like it a little more these days!




When McKinley was about 5 days old we took her out for the first time on a walk. We were getting a little cabin fever so we decided a walk was needed to get some sunlight and get out of the house for a bit. We had Natalie, Mike and Clay down visiting from Hyrum so they were able to join us on our outing.




Clay loves his new little cousin. He wants to hold her and kiss her all the time. He gets mad when we don't let him pick her up and carry her like he wants to, but that will have to wait until they're both a little bit bigger!

When McKinley was a week old she got to meet her Meme and Pepe (my parents). They flew in from Houston and spent 10 days here with us!



Life with McKinley has been great! She's a great baby and doesn't cry all that much! She's squirmy and likes to wiggle a lot! She likes to kick her legs and move her arms all around! She's also awake a lot of the time and is really aware of what's going on around her. Everyone comments about how she doesn't look like a newborn because she's so awake and alert! People are always surprised at how many pictures we have of her awake! She's such a cutie and we're loving life with her :)