Growing Like a (Very Cute) Weed

Monday Carina turned 2 months old. Holy crap. Where did the time go? She spent the day playing on her monkey mat and sleeping. Tuesday she had her check-up. She now weighs 10 pounds 2 ounces and is 20 inches long. We were amazed. She's such a little chub! She had her first shots and was NOT a fan at all. Three in her legs and she screamed like she has never screamed before. Poor little thing had quieted down by the time we got to the car but had snot, spit and tears all over her face (and my shirt).

She recovered nicely. Slept it off once we got home with Daddy. She did wake up from her nap howling again but after a snack and another nap she was back to her cheerful self. She slept well and never had any other side effects. What a zen baby we have.

Last night we had dinner with friends at their home. They grilled burgers, we took pasta salad and chocolate peanut butter cake. Carina was mostly awake all evening so I wasn't really surprised when she slept 9 hours last night. Uninterrupted sleep is heavenly. We've been waking up once per night for the past week and a half while she has adjusted to the sleep sack. Maybe this means she's back to sleeping through the night!

Had a good day today. Lots of playing and sleeping. Three weeks till I return to work and I'm trying my best not to think about it.

So Big!

Carina is 6 weeks old today. I can't believe it! We had her to the pediatrician for her one month check up on Friday. She was so happy and content despite her raging hiccups. She weighed 8 pounds 1 ounce (until she peed all over the scale anyway - then maybe a few ounces less) and measured 19 inches. That puts her in the 25th percentile for weight and below the charts for length, haha. The Dr. said she's a little peanut. Because her weight gain was so spectacular we've decided to let her go as long as she wants between feedings overnight. She slept one 7 hour stretch over the weekend but her diaper didn't last as long as she did unfortunately.

We had friends from Pittsburgh and their nearly 3 year old daughter stay with us over the weekend. We hadn't seen them since last Fall so it was really nice to visit with them. We had a family picnic Saturday and they had a wedding so we didn't see a whole lot of them but it was still neat to have them around. Our family picnic went well. Carina does great in the car (it was about an hour away) and she was good about being passed around to everyone. We got a little break so that was nice too.

Sunday we took Carina to church for the first time. She slept through most of Sunday school and church and didn't even need to be fed till we got home. What a convenient kid! Our Sunday school girls were very excited to meet her.

Yesterday I took Carina to visit Peter at work. His co-workers have been dying to see her. We plan to take her to visit my co-workers next week. Last night I went to a Pampered Chef party and left Peter on daddy duty. Unfortunately Carina was pretty fussy before I even left so it was a frustrating evening for everyone involved. Still - everybody survived and Carina even slept 8 hours last night. She would have slept longer but we were worried about another leaky diaper so we woke her, fed her and now she's sleeping again.

So all in all we're doing alright! She's growing so fast and we're loving every minute of it.

Happy 4th!

Only 4 days late. We had a long, busy weekend. Peter's parents stayed with us Thursday through Sunday. Saturday we had my parents here too for a picnic! We broke in the new grill and made some burgers. The rest of the menu included pasta salad, corn souffle, deviled eggs, chips, grape pie, cherry pie and peanut butter striped delight. I had a fun time planning the picnic and hopefully Peter learned a thing or two about grilling from our dads. I can't wait for Peter to make kabobs some night.

Carina is now one month old! I really can't believe it. She's exactly 5 weeks old today. She's growing so fast - it's amazing. She loves to look around and take everything in. We still have her on a fairly strict schedule. Feedings every 3 hours during the day and then overnight she sleeps one 5 hour stretch, eats and then sleeps another 4 hour stretch. It's heavenly to get so much sleep and we really are blessed to have a baby that likes to follow a schedule, haha. She must be mine. We have a pedi appt Friday and at that time if we are told that she no longer needs to keep to a schedule and can eat on demand (meaning less often) then we'll do that. Should be interesting!

Father's Day

Yesterday we celebrated Peter's first Father's Day! My parents had spent the night Saturday and Carina's feeding schedule allowed for me to teach Sunday school with Peter so Gram and Grampa babysat. Carina slept the whole time (which was not the case when Peter and I went out for icecream Saturday and came home to a very unhappy baby, haha).

After Sunday school and another feeding we went to my Gram's for the day - but not before a little drama. I had bought an "I love Daddy" onesie months ago for Father's Day and hid it away. Carina had it on for exactly 20 minutes before she spit up all over it, herself and the carseat. The most frustrating part was she never spits up! So sadly Peter didn't have much of a Father's Day present. Oh well. At some point I will get a picture of her in it when she's actually clean.

We made it to Gram's - once again Carina slept the entire way. Apparently she likes the car. We unpacked the trunk and the beautiful cupcakes I had made and brought had overturned and were a complete mess. I was so disappointed. Fortunately I had made a cake as well and it survived the trip just fine. I had made cupcakes for our small group too so at least they were home and safe.

We had a lovely lunch and passed the baby around a good bit. She slept the entire visit except for her diaper change and feeding - silly girl. She managed to spit up big time on Aunt Jeanne too. We have no idea where that all came from yesterday. I guess babies of a certain age, whether bottle fed or breast fed, tend to spit up a bit more. Maybe she got jiggled too much in the car too - like shaking a soda, Peter says, haha.

After such a sleepy day we had a very awake, somewhat fussy evening but Carina slept like a champ last night. She did stay awake for a good bit of our small group meeting last night. We hosted at our house. Our friends brought their 6 month old daughter who was just fascinated with Carina. We got a good video of the two girls together. I can't believe Carina will be that big and eating baby food and crawling one day. It seems so unreal!