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| 2 months |
Maryanne turned 2 months on the 14th and her stats came in as 11 lbs 10 oz (75%) and 23 inches long (75%) and HC 39 (50%). It's strange to witness the growth of newborns. Imagine if we grew 3 inches and doubled our weight in 2 months. That is some pretty serious growing.
I thought it would be fun to go back and see what the other kids were at 2 months:
Luke - 13 lbs 12 oz (80%), 24 3/4 inches (95%) I wish I had his head circumference cause the kid's got a large noggin. But I know it was always in the 100th percentile.
Lucy Kate - 13 lbs 12 oz ((95%) 23 inches (75%) HC 40 (75%)
Wow! I never knew that Luke and Lucy were the exact same weight at 2 months! Only Luke was almost 2 inches longer. Lucy man, what a chubbers. She was such a champion nurser.
So here are more pictures of maryannie
7 weeks....
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| first smile - May 6th |
Ok, so this kid is a tricky one. She is hard to feed because she wiggles and pulls and wrestles. And she acts like she's always hungry. We feed her so much! She also spits up a lot. It's been stressful to try to figure it out. She really loves her dad. I think she's smiled for him a dozen times or more and only twice for me. She seems like a sober youth. I think she's got tummy troubles though and possibly reflux - so perhaps she will get happier when she grows out of that. (and we just got some reflux medicine which will hopefully help) But when she is feeling good - she is so calm and wide-eyed, taking in the world around her. She might be an old soul who just quietly figures everything out. She likes to be held - which is new for us. Luke liked when we just left him alone and couldn't really fall asleep when we were holding him. Maryanne loves to be held - awake or asleep.
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| quilt from my cool cool friend Liz |
5 weeks...
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| One Month 4/14/12 |
4 weeks ...
3 weeks...
We are sure loving this baby. Although Joey and I are in a constant state of exhaustion. We basically put all the kids to bed and go to bed ourselves like real fuddy duddies. But there seems to be hope for better sleeping as she is starting to sleep longer and follow a schedule. Even when I have the hardest days when I get absolutely nothing done or feel my life is so out of control - I just think to myself - hey, I'm holding a baby. MY baby. That is a glorious thing. So, I am trying hard to not care if anything gets done and just enjoy this sweet baby in the midst of all my chaos.
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She is not looking like Luke anymore to me. I agree with you that she looks a lot like Edith's kids. Finally a resemblance among the double cousins!
Oh, and in that very first picture she kind of looks like Liz's Maryanne. (The eyes)
This is so fun to have a cousin so close in age to E so we can compare stats. He'll have his 2-month visit next week, so I don't know for sure, but I think he's over 12 pounds already. He's doing some smiles, mostly for me. And he also seems to have occasional tummy troubles--though gas, not spitting up, in his case--which we'll hopefully work out soon. And he loves being held. He'll wake up if put down! He was doing one 5-hour stretch at night for a week or two, but hasn't for the past few days. I think we threw him off with our CA trip. Darn. Hope it comes back. Last night he was up every two hours, and my numb is brain. :)
You are one great Mom. Lucky kids!
She's gorgeous! Way to grow 'em good.
Ok! Just got our stats. :) He's 12 pounds 1.5 ounces (50%), 22.5 inches (25%), and 41cm head (75%). Or those are the percentages they gave me--seems like they're a little different from yours. Basically, he just has a giant head. :)
I'm thinking Rosalie. She's a real cutie. It's nice to have a holder. I have a thing or two for her - but I have this thing (or two) with the post-office. Post-post office stress syndrome? I think it was that time, too close to Christmas, in SLC, with a 2 yr old and a 4 yr old... Yeah, that did it. Anyway, I will either give it to you if we see you, or brave the wiles of the Huntsville PO and mail it to ye.
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