My Two Wonderful Blessings!

I have been thinking a lot lately about how funny life is. When I was young, I always hated it when I got stuck with a baby that spit up all the time and smelled like throw up... I would always leave feeling like I smelled like throw up too! I also did NOT like holding babies that slobbered constantly ... slobber is gross and icky! I was also petrified of babies who were noisy breathers because I was so nervous the whole time that they were going to stop breathing any minute. It was as if they were struggling to get in their next breath!

I was soooo glad when Crystal came along and she had NONE of these traits! She very very very rarely spit up and slobber only ran down her chin when she was teething. As for the breathing, I never had to worry about whether she would be able to get through her next breath... though she was a vocal sleeper, her breathing never sounded labored!

....then came Lily....

Lily spits up constantly... and ALWAYS smells like throw up no matter how often I wipe her face or how many times a day I change her clothes! And her breathing, oh dear goodness, her breathing! She often sounds as if every breath is a struggle, but the doctor assures us she is just fine and its completely normal. And just the past week .... you guessed it ... she has started to slobber ... I can't leave her lying on the couch without a burp rag under her because if she doesn't spit up all over it, she's guaranteed to slobber on it!

You would think I wouldn't be able to stand being around my own child, but that isn't the case! I can't get enough of her! I haven't even been strong enough to move her out of our bedroom yet at night. She still sleeps in the bassinet right next to me despite her noisy breathing! Though she spits up on me (once on my head and down my face ... not joking ... it was gross!), I still want to hold her all day and don't want to miss a minute!

I often wonder how well I would have handled it all if Crystal had been this way. People would always tell me its different when its your own child, but I don't believe it. I still don't like slobber or spit up even if its my child's slobber and spit up. BUT with burp rag in hand (and often good smelling wipes and extra sets of clothing ... lol), its not hard at all to look past it all and see the perfection underneath :D.

On the up side Lily sleeps through the night and she rarely has crying fits (though it has happened once or twice)! And there are only a few things more important to me than my sleep (don't worry my children come first... just not happily ... lol)!

And don't worry! For as much as Lily spits up you'd think it would affect her health but it hasn't AT ALL! She has over doubled her weight since birth!

I am so thankful for the two beautiful daughters that Heavenly Father has entrusted to us! Every day, I see them and wonder what wonderful thing I could have done do deserve them. They are perfect in every way and though I am not in any way perfect, I am thankful to be given the opportunity to watch them grow and to teach them and help them along the way.