Saturday, December 1, 2012

Adalyn- 5 Months

Here are the highlights from this past month:

- You are playing with toys! YAY! You are good at grabbing toys. Most of the time you try putting them in your mouth. Your favorite toys are rattles and your star that has different textures on each of it's points.
- You love your musical jumper. The teachers at your school say that is your favorite thing to do there. You will sit and jump for a really long time.
- You are rolling over now. You can roll from back to front and front to back.
- You still enjoy your play mat.
- Since you are playing with toys now, your sister interacts with you even more.
- You smile all the time and have the cutest laugh.
- You sleep through the night about 10 hours. It took about 3 nights of you crying in the middle of the night for us to break the middle of the night feeding. You would cry for about 15 minutes and then fall back asleep.
- You have about 5 feedings a day and drink about 7 ounces per feeding.
- You take about 3 naps each day. At school, they are short naps, but on the weekends you will take longer ones.


Saturday, October 27, 2012

Adalyn- 4 Months

Here are some highlights from the past month:

- You love sticking out your tongue. It's so funny and people are always commenting about it. Your sister did the same thing, so it must run in the family.
- You are now laughing if we tickle you. And you still smile so much!
- You love Ella. She can make you smile and you are always following her voice. If she is in the room, you are quick to turn your head to watch her.
- You are beginning to get chubbier. You wear 3-6 month clothing now. 
- Not much has changed this month. You are an easy baby and are lots of fun.
- Overall, you are one happy, happy baby.
- You drink about 6 ounces per feeding and have about 5-6 feedings a day.
- You take 3-4 naps per day. Most of them are short naps, except for one really long one.
- You go to sleep around 7:00 and sleep about 8 hours. You wake up for a quick bottle and then go back to sleep.

4 Month stats:
Length- 26 inches (90%)
Weight- 14.12 pounds (50%)
Head Circumference- 16.75 inches (20%)


Sunday, October 14, 2012

Ella is THREE!

I can't believe you are THREE! You are no longer a baby, but a little girl. Your little hands aren't so chubby anymore. Your voice isn't so babyish. Oh, how the baby stage flew by. Now it's time to embrace the years you are a child, instead of a baby. I'm reminded of the poem below:

"Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow.
for babies grow up, we've learned to our sorrow.
so quiet down, cobwebs.
dust, go to sleep.

I'm rocking my baby, and babies don't keep."

It's sad, BUT exciting at the same time. There are so many wonderful joys to having you as our little girl.



Your favorite Movies/TV shows are:
- Tangled
- Little Bear
- Franklin
- Beauty and the Beast
- Up
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- The Incredibles

You love to sing songs! Here are your favorites:
- Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes
- If You're Happy and You Know It
- Rock-a-bye-baby
- Wheels on the Bus

You LOVE school. Everyone seems to know you there, even the teachers in other rooms, because you are known as "Miss Social." You have lots of friends. You only talk about the girls because this is what you ALWAYS say, "I play with girls. Not boys."

You are a girly girl. You love everything pink, sparkly, frilly, and poofy! You want to wear dresses and skirts everyday and you have to have a bow in your hair. You hate wearing sneakers and say, "Those are boy shoes. Girls wear pink and sparkly shoes."


You love princesses and have many princess dresses: Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, and Belle. Your two favorites are Rapunzel and Belle.

You started dance class and you have a BLAST! The dance studio comes to your school each Friday morning, so it's incorporated into your school day. It's very convenient!


You are potty trained! YAY! You still have accidents in your pants with going #2, but it's not all the time. Eventually you will get it...

Naptime and bedtime have been much better. You go to bed on your own. Sometimes you will cry, but you fall asleep without mommy in the room. You sleep in the craziest positions, like the one below. Good thing there are guard rails!


You have surprised us on being a risk taker. You are bold in trying new things. You will slide down BIG slides all by yourself and LOVE it. These two pictures CRACK US UP and truly capture your personality!



The question you ask all the time is, "Who bought this?" We have no idea why you want to know who bought EVERYTHING, but for some reason it is interesting to you.

Drama. Drama. Drama. You have so much of it. Whew! We are having to squash this on a daily basis. We have also asked your teachers with help on this. Sometimes you will act sad or pout on purpose just to get attention. We ignore this behavior as much as possible.



Happy Birthday to our incredible THREE year old. You are loving, fiesty, caring, independent, hilarious, and oh so cute!


3 Year Stats:
Height: 36.5 inches (45%)
Weight: 31 pounds (45%)

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Adalyn- 3 Months




Here are some highlights from the past month:

- You are aware of your surroundings and love to look around and follow noises and voices.
- You have officially found the TV. Sometimes you can be mesmerized by it.
- Sometimes you will get distracted when taking the bottle.
- You are so smiley!
- You are laughing some.
- So far, you seem to be a pretty laid back baby.
- You definitely aren't a paci baby, which is fine with us. You stopped using it right after turning 2 months old.
- You began daycare this month (3 days before turning 3 months old) and have handled it wonderfully. You quickly adapted to the new change in routine. You eat and sleep pretty well while you are there, but come home EXHAUSTED.
-  You LOVE, LOVE, LOVE tummy time. (Ella didn't at all.) Your teachers at school say that it is your favorite thing.
- Your new bedtime is 6:30 and you crash quickly. You will sleep for about 8-10 hours, wake up for a bottle, and then go back to bed again.
- You eat about 6 ounces per feeding.
- We stopped giving you Zantac because we felt like you were past the reflux. We are still keeping you on the thicker formula and hopefully will transition to a generic formula once you are a little older.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Adalyn- 2 Months

Here are the highlights from this past month:

- You rolled from front to back at 5 weeks and then again at 8 weeks. I think it was more of an accident since you aren't consistently doing this yet.
- You sure smile a lot....big smiles!
- You are beginning to "talk" to us by cooing.
- You follow voices by turning your head.
- Your hair is beginning to lay flat, your hair is getting lighter, and your eyes are turning a lighter shade of blue.
- You enjoy watching your big sister. You like when she lies next to you.
- You seem to enjoy social interaction. If no one is around you, you will cry for someone to come near you. Then you will smile really big. You just want people around.
- You stopped your inconsolable crying around 7 weeks...thank goodness!!
- You are doing much better in the car seat.
- You are still taking Zantac twice a day for your reflux.
- The doctor changed your formula again. Now you are drinking Similac "For Spit-Up." We are using the ready to feed version, not powder. It is much smoother, so you don't struggle as much. Plus, it has a little rice cereal added to the formula.
- You drink about 4 ounces per feeding and wake up one time at night. You have a total of 7 feedings per day.

Here are your 7 week stats:
Length- 23 inches (90%)
Weight- 10.3 pounds (70%)
Head Circumference- 15 1/4 inches (70%)

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Adalyn - 1 Month

Here are some highlights from your first month:

- Your hair sticks straight up and you sure have lots of it. People are always commenting on how long and dark your hair is.
- By the end of the month you were already smiling at us!
- You have the cutest, little dimple on your cheek.
- Your umbilical cord fell off when you were 10 days old...much sooner than Ella's did.
- Your blood type is A+ just like your dad and sister.
- At the end of the month you were drinking 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 ounces every 3 hours and waking up for 2 feelings during the night. (Total of 8 feelings per day.)
- You prefer to sleep on your tummy and sleep MUCH better and longer that way. I decided to go against what pediatricians and researchers are saying and doing what works best for you. Now days they say to lay babies on their back, but I'm sure by the time you have babies they will change it again!
- When you were 2 weeks old you were diagnosed with reflux. The doctor put you on Zantac and switched your formula to Gerber Goodstart Soothe. It seems to be helping, but not completely.
- You hate the car seat and will scream, so we don't go out much! People have told us that babies with reflux don't do well in the car seat position because it is uncomfortable on your tummy.
- You have colic like symptoms and will cry, cry, cry, cry for awhile in the evenings. We feel it is more than just the usual newborn fussiness. Hoping this will pass soon!

Your 2 week stats were:
Weight - 7.1 pounds (90%)
Length - 21 1/4 inches (70%)
Head Circumfrence - 14 1/4 inches (70%)

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Second Trimester with Baby #2

Well, the second trimester came and went quickly and with no problems. It was a very easy trimester, which I am VERY thankful for. I had more energy than expected!

There were no major food cravings. I still desired sweets most days, along with spicy food, but nothing unusual or strange.

Bathroom breaks throughout the nights kept me awake some, but I was always able to fall asleep pretty quick.

I felt like I was "smaller" than when I was pregnant with Ella. Many people have commented that it seems I have not gained as much weight this time around. Hopefully this means I will be able to bounce back quickly to pre-pregnancy weight!

Ella talks about how baby sister is inside mommy's tummy and will tell people all the time. I think she's starting to understand a little better.

I began to feel movement in my stomach on January 13th, which was around week 16.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Ella is TWO and a HALF!

Your favorite Movies/TV shows are:
- The Bee Movie- Tinkerbell
- Cars
- Toy Story
- America's Funniest Home Videos
- Little Bear

You love to sing songs! Here are your favorites that you sing over and over:
- Wheels on the Bus
- If You're Happy and You Know It
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- The Baby Bumblebee Song
- ABC's

You don't know a stranger. Recently your daddy has been coaching middle school baseball and you will climb the bleachers or walk around talking to random people. Your first "opening" line to a conversation is, "Look at my fingernails." You will show people your pink nails and then start talking. If the person has food you will ask to have some. So, you are definitely not shy!!!

Looking back, we remember how picky you were about trying new foods. Now, you love to venture out of the ordinary and try new things. You are becoming more adventurous by trying something at least once before determining if you like it or not.

You love going to church, especially getting a donut before going to your class.

Potty training isn't going that well, but you are trying every day. Most days you just sit on the potty, but every once in awhile you will actually go. We aren't pushing it too much yet, but we will once summer gets here.

You have officially moved into a "big girl" bed and are doing GREAT! You are so happy about your new bed and get excited about sleeping in it (normally).