This last week has flown by so fast I can hardly keep up. For those of you who don't know, I am not a homebody. I prefer to be busy and on-the-go. So although it's been little more than a week since Scarlett was born, I have been out quite a lot. I've gone to visit friends and family members and I even went to work for an evening.
I am particularly excited about Micaela starting preschool. This has been quite the anxiety provoking situation for me, as I didn't start looking for a preschool until July, which apparently is crazy because shouldn't I have known that preschools start enrolling for fall during December of the previous year? Also, shouldn't I have known that preschool is expensive? Fortunately I found a preschool that I felt good about that put her on a waiting list and was just expensive, as opposed to expensive. More good news came when she actually got off the waiting list and made it in a class before school started. Even more good news came when I realized that we could go back to school shopping, and to top it off we got to go back to school shopping with grandma and grandpa.


Needless to say she absolutely loved her first day and constantly tells me that she is going back. Almost to reassure herself. Like "I'm going back to preschool." With a long pause as if she's challenging me to tell her otherwise.

I've had a lot of questions from people about Micaela's adjustment to the new baby. So far, it has been a lot better than I expected. She loves the baby, but she is gentle and not overly suffocating. She hates it when the baby cries. Whenever she cries, Micaela yells from wherever she's at "I'm coming baby Scarlett!" The other day she asked why the baby was crying, and I told her "I think she just wants her mama." To which she replied "no, I think she just wants her Micaela."
Although she loves the baby, we have noticed that the first few days were a little difficult for her. She started fake crying a lot more and requested to be held by both of us, something she normally doesn't want anymore. This has faded over the days, and we're starting to see more of our "big girl" Micaela back.


We're going out of town for the next week and I wanted to post some updated pictures of Scarlett before we left. I can't believe how much she has grown in just a week. And yes, I do dress her up and make her wear ridiculous bows in her hair. Someday, most likely when she is going through a rebellious phase and wearing all black, I will fondly remember the days when I could make her wear whatever girly outfits I wanted.

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