Milestones

My little girl needs to slow down - but I honestly love each and every milestone she meets. When we were walking thru the airport on our way to DC, she giggled at her daddy for the first time! Since then, her big cousin had her laughing up a storm, and so has daddy and grandma. Mommy tries so hard and she will every once in a while. We sat her in her bumbo for the first time this weekend and she seemed to love it. We noticed this weekend that she is trying to pull herself up into a sitting position. Every time we hold her or prop her up, she doesn't rest her head anymore, she is just constantly pulling. This morning she spent about 10 minutes in our bed doing baby sit-ups! She has really great neck control too... so big.

I have many favorite moments with my little girl throughout each day, but two of my absolute favorites are when I walk into her room in the morning to get her up, she looks and me and gives me the BIGGEST smile! I love that she wakes up happy, and happy to see me! And when I put her in bed, after feeding her, rocking her, and she is sound asleep - I transfer her to the swing (yes, she is still sleeping in her swing!), she usually wakes up during this process. And while I am shushing her back to sleep, she will stop wiggling for a second, look at me, and give me another great big ol baby girl smile. I can't help but laugh at her and smile and goo back - even though I know I should keep things quiet as she is falling asleep. Shortly after though, she is sound asleep. I love that my little girl falls asleep happy too! It is such a great way for me to start my day, and end my day - with the smiles of a girl I love more than life.

12 weeks this Friday! How is that possible!

Whew - what a week

Baby girl is 9 weeks old today and has had quite the week! Friday she had her weird eye/arm episodes, we didn't see it after that though! Monday she had her 2 month well-check. She was doing great. She weighed 10lbs 4 oz (she gained 2 ounces since Friday!!). She was supposed to get her vaccines too, so we headed down to the immunization clinic, but she was only 59 days old, and had to be 60 (yes, I am serious)! So, we headed back on Tuesday. She did great, but of course cried during the shots. But then was done. We walked around the hospital with daddy for 15 minutes to make sure she wouldn't have a reaction, and then headed home. She was achy that night, her little legs hurt her. But she slept great! Weds was the first day with her babysitter, and it was rather rough on me. Even though I was just upstairs, I missed her!! I am kind of rethinking the babysitter thing, but am going to give it a few weeks before I make a decision. So far, she sleeps plenty during the day that allows me to get my work done. (Speaking of work, my boss called me on Monday to welcome me back and to tell me that they are going to make sure I don't have to travel much!! Isn't that awesome?! I almost cried I was so excited!) Anyway, after the babysitter left, Natty was sleeping on my lap while I was finishing up some work and she felt warm. I took her temp and it was 100.7 - which doesn't seem high, but for babies under 3 months, anything over 100.4 means a call to the doc. So, I called and they had us go to Dayton Children's (even though we were all sure it was cause of the vaccines, because of her weird Friday thing, they wanted her checked out). This was SO hard! She had to have her blood drawn and they took forever to find a vein - meanwhile she was being pinned down, crying her eyes out. I was bawling too. Thank God calm Matt was there to take care of his two girls. I wanted to rip her off that table and run out of their, punching the techs before I left for hurting my little girl! Then they couldn't get enough blood out of her that way, so had to do a pin prick... more crying from both of us. THEN they had to do a catheter to get some urine to see if she had a UTI, and then a chest x-ray. By this point, I had had it.... and so had she. Luckily it had all come back clear. The docs were all really nice and we were SO glad they didn't want to do a spinal tap (although, not sure we would have let them). We headed home and crashed. Her fever broke that night... .sigh. I felt such guilt about making her go through so much, and still do. I have nightmares about her screaming in pain - it was awful! Yesterday I cancelled the babysitter and spent the day cuddling with my little girl while I worked. We took a walk, hung out for a big with the new neighbors, and had bath time. A much needed day at home! She is supposed to go to a follow-up appt today, but I am going to see if that is absolutely necessary, cause we are sick of doctors right now! On a side note - she has been sleeping 9 hours straight for the last 3 days in a row. Not sure if this is a new trend, or because of all she has been through. I, of course, haven't slept that much because at the 6 hour mark, I have to pump and then I am up worrying that she is OK or if I should wake her up to eat..... being neurotic is exhausting!! Hoping for a much better weekend/week next week. Her Papa and Gigi are coming to see us on Saturday and we can't wait and then we are off to DC! :)

Two Months!

OK, you are going to grounded for not listening to your mommy and daddy - we want you to stay little forever, but you just keep getting bigger and bigger!

My sweet baby girl is 2 months today. Amazing to think about - it feels like forever, yet, I know that it is no time at all. But I can't remember my life without her.

She is an incredibly sweet, content, happy little girl. She has a few fussy times during the day/evening which consist of belting out a whine or two, and then she is done. She loves her swing and loves to be held. She also loves her pacifier and just this weekend started really sucking on her little fist. Although sometimes she will accidentally choke herself (she hasn't figured out that she can move her hand out of her mouth!). Her eyes are getting bluer and her fuzz is getting a little darker and a little longer. She still loves her baths and it is one of my favorite times of the day. Daddy does the bath and then mommy does the baby massage. She is sleeping really well for the most part - she will go down anywhere between 9 and 10 and sleep 6-7 hours, up to feed and quick change and back asleep for 3 hours, and does that again. Then she is up for a while in the morning and afternoon and evening. We spend our time flirting with each other and she learns how to smile (most beautiful smile ever!), playing with her little toys (ok, I play with them, she looks at me funny), trying to do tummy time (she hates it), talking about all the things she sees, reading books, dancing, etc. She is starting to coo now too so we have little conversations. I just love talking with her!!

She is the best thing that has ever happened to us and we fall more in love each day. We feel so very blessed and are not taking a single minute (even the ones at 3am!) for granted.

Happy 2 months sweet baby girl - best two months of our lives!

We love you more than anything!