Weigh in!

So, yesterday was Kaia's two month well-baby checkup, postponed from last week (because I had to fly to Cincinnati). I had erroneously promised her that there would be no shots at this checkup! She was her normal delightful self during the checkup - talking to the doctor, kicking and smiling. She weighed in at 11 pounds 11 oz - moving her from the 50th percentile in weight to the 75th - which now matches her height percentile (she's 23 inches now). Getting so big!

Scott (her doctor) said that she's very alert and responsive for 9 weeks, with excellent head control and arm strength. That tummy time is working! He predicted she'd be rolling over soon (probably the first time we leave her on the changing table unattended).

She had to get three (!) shots. The doctor doesn't give the shots, a nurse comes in afterwards with all of them lined up on a tray (such big needles for such a little girl!) The poor little thing didn't see it coming. . .all smiles one second and then OWWaaaaah! I wanted to cry myself, seeing her little face all red like that. MY POOR BABY!

Anyway, she survived just fine, and came home to charm her Granny Adams (sounds like an apple, right?) who came to visit while in town interviewing.

2 Months Old already

Last weekend, on Sunday, Kaia turned 2 months old. It's funny, becuase she doesn't look to me like she's changed all that much except for when I look back at the pictures from the hospital, and it doesn't seem like all that much time has passed until I think about how long ago that seems now.

She's just recently started doing several things that make her much more fun to play with and watch - including reaching out at things (although she still can't really grab them, it doens't always seem that her arms are obeying what she's telling them to do), holding on to things and putting them in her mouth, and most importantly, watching us and SMILING. Check out the smile on that girl! She's adorable, right (even bald)?

She's also been sleeping a bit more than before, although this one is tough to track now that I threw away my Baby Gantt chart where I tracked every meal, diaper change, nap, and fussy time. I can't believe the pediatrician actually said "I give you permission to STOP doing that." He wasn't the one waking up at 4 am wondering when the last time he fed her was. Anyway, sleep time changes about every week or so, and this week we seem to have picked the 1 or 2 am feeding up again after having slept until 4 or so for two weeks. Perhaps it's a growth spurt?

We've kept to the breastfeeding, which has in fact gotten a lot easier over time (or maybe I am just used to it now), although we've tried formula once or twice to make sure she's OK with it. She doesn't seem to care much about what's in the bottle, really.

So, Kaia-boo, happy (belated) 2 month birthday. Your momma and daddy love you VERY much.

OMG I think she's getting cuter!

The other night we decided that bath time in the baby bath tub, while having the advantage of being very safe in terms of baby slipping, getting scalded, drowning, etc, had the disadvantage of not actually immersing baby in warm water. Basically, it establishes a moat of warm water around baby which their feet and rear end touch, but everything else is out of the water. So you take a washcloth and squeeze it over them, but it's more of a sponge bath than the real deal.

So, I got in the bathtub (Jason did an excellent job of not capturing me in the pictures) and Jay handed Kaia over to me so I could hold her in the water and actually get her wet! We discovered that she's very floaty (as long as I held her head up, ther rest of her floated on its own) and that she LOVES bath time. She smiled the whole time, gazing over at Jason with the look you see in this photo. It's not exactly the easiest way to bathe her, since it requires that one of us get into the bathtub too, but it sure is a nice way to get a little one on one time with her.