2 Months Old!!

Weight: 9 lbs 7 Ounces

Height: 23 1/2 Inches

Eating 3-4 ounces every few hours

Still Sleeps a lot of the day but is starting to have days where she is awake a lot

Goes to bed around 9:00 p.m. and wakes up at 8:00 a.m. only waking once a night to eat

Still fits in most of her newborn clothes

Long and Lean

Sleeping in Pack and Play in our bedroom

Smiles a lot

Coos and makes a lot of noises

Can roll from Side to Back and Back to Side

Can lay on stomach and raise head up and look around

This has been one of the most stressful months that I can remember in a long time.  Between selling the house, buying one, packing, and taking care of Lily I feel as though my head is about to explode.  Mainly because she was sick for an entire week (like projectile vomit sick and couldn't go to daycare) which she gave to both Josh and I.  So needless to say we have not been able to get pretty much anything done.  She went in for her two month check up last Thursday "June 20th" but had lost so much weight they were not able to give her the 2 month shots.  I had to take her in the next day (Friday June 21st) for them to do an X-Ray of her stomach while she ate to make sure it wasn't more than just a stomach bug.  Luckily by that time she hadn't thrown up in over 24 hours so I was already pretty sure she was just sick.  She also still has the swollen Lymph Node on her neck and it is still decent size, it does shrink from time to time but always goes back.  They ran blood tests on her two Fridays ago and all of that came back good so that is a positive, however, just to be safe they are going to go ahead and contact childrens hospital and see if they think we need to go ahead and get it tested just to be 100% sure its nothing bad.  Also because of having the swollen lymph node since she was born she has always tilted her head covering it as if to protect it.  Well that has caused that muscle to tighten up and now she heavely favors that side so she is going to have to start Physical Therapy this week to help stretch that out.  All of this and we have to be out of our house on Friday to move into our new one!  Whew... I cannot wait for this week to be done.  The good news is it seems that Lily is past the fussy newborn stage and her personality is really starting to come out.  She is happy and grins a lot most of the time and her schedule is starting to become more predictable.

  Josh and I were supposed to be having date nights every other weekend when he isn't working and that has went out the window the past month, however, starting back this Saturday since we will be moved and Lily is healthy we get to go out.  We are going to some friends of ours Wes and Ashton's wedding, so we are very excited for that and for them!  I am so excited for us to get some "US" time.  I always love our time with Lily but I miss being with him lol. Hopefully the next time I post things will have settled down a bit!  Until then here is my our sweet Lily Posing for her 2 month pic!!!!

2 weeks 1 post!!

           Oh wow we have been busy!!! I promise I have a good reason for not posting,  and that is..... we finally sold our house!!!  We sold it 2 Fridays ago.   We are so excited, but at the same time so stressed!  I am telling you... selling a house, buying a house (for sale by owner so we are not using a Realtor which means we are doing everything on our own) and taking care of a 2 month old is tough work.   We have until the end of the month to be out and have only packed one room. We love Greenwood, however, we both work in Van Buren, so needless to say we spend about $700 a month on gas.  It will be so nice to be close to work finally.  We found a wonderful house in Van Buren that is everything we could possibly want so that is wonderful as well.  I will keep you updated on the move when I have time to update!
             Other than we have a few updates.  Lily had her first Holiday which was Memorial Day.  Lily and I spent the day over at my parents house just hanging out, then some more family came over around 4 to eat and swim and Josh (who had to work that day) joined us at 6:00 p.m. for some more eating and swimming.  Of course Lily just slept right through the whole thing!
              Today she officially had her first day of Day Care.  I had to go back to work so she started at GO Kids Academy in Alma.  It is at a church and it is absolutely wonderful.  I cried a little but I knew she was in such great hands and Josh and I had so much we had to accomplish today on moving (the inspector looked at our new house, so did the termite people, had to get our stuff in to the loan lady, switched from regions bank to Arvest since they don't have a regions in VB).  She apparently did great.  I just can't believe how big she is getting so fast.  She goes in not this coming Thursday but the next Thursday for her 2 month check up, and hopefully everything will be good.  I don't have much more to tell ya than that.  This coming Saturday I will post Lily's 2 month picture and update on all of her new stuff but for now I will leave you with some pictures from the past 2 weeks.  Enjoy!

                                           Grandpa Roger with Kaleb and Lily on Memorial Day

                                                                   6 week old picture

                                                   Finally caught that pretty smile on camera

                                                                    ......and another

                                                                      Lily and Daddy

                                                                    7 week old picture

                                         First Day of Day Care (not happy to be in the car seat lol)

Long week!

                This week has been a rather long week!  Last week we found a knot on the side of Lily's neck.  It was pretty big.  We took her to the Doctor last Friday and she thought it was a muscle in her neck that had tightened up, and if that was the case we would need to do physical therapy to loosen it up, however, she wanted to do an ultrasound just to make sure.  So she scheduled us an ultrasound for Tuesday of the past week.  Lily did great at the ultrasound.. even though I was having to pull her should and head apart she never cried.. just wiggled around a lot.  After the radiologist looked at the picture he came and and said that it was a bunch of small swollen Lymph Nodes.  He said this is usually caused by an infection (such as a cold).  So he called her pediatrician who called us in some medicine and which is really strong.  Sadly it is giving poor Lily the runs which in turn is causing her to have severe diaper rash no matter how much we change her or put ointment on her.  She is handling it pretty well but gets a little more upset than she normally does.  Luckily, the bump is going down and she only has 5 more days to be on the medicine.
                  Other than that everything is going really good.  I am so trying to live in the moment but seeing everyone's pictures of being out on the lake and camping this week makes me long for the days that she is a little older and we can take her to do that, however, I know time flies by so I am trying to enjoy where we are right now.  On a happy note Lily she slept from 11:00 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. this morning, woke up and drank a few ounces, went back to sleep at 5:30 a.m. and slept until 8:30!!!  She has always been pretty good about sleeping but hopefully this will be a new thing.  It is so hard believe that she is 5 weeks old today.    Time really does go by fast!  Nothing really new or exciting going on the upcoming week but I will let you know if anything of interest winds up happening lol.  Hope you all have a fun and safe memorial day weekend and a great upcoming week!


                                                                The knot on her neck

                               
                                                        Big girl waiting for her ultrasound

                                                   
                                                     Sitting in her boppy, 5 week old pic

                                                   
                                                Sweet little pose she was striking while asleep

1 month old!

Weight: 7 lbs 9 ounces

Height: 21 1/2 inches

Eating: 2-3 ounces every 3 or 4 hours

Sleeps a lot of the day except for an hour here and there for play time and food

Sleeps most of the night usually waking up twice around 1 am and 4 am to eat

Belly Button Cord fell of at 3 weeks

Had 1st bath

Wearing Newborn diapers

Just now fitting into newborn clothes

Smiles a lot

Grunts a lot

Slept in her crib for 5 hours for the first time last night

I know everyone says this, but I really can't believe it has been a month.  The first 2 weeks are still a blur.  I was really lucky that Josh got 3 weeks off and we both took turns.  The second two weeks everything seemed like it fell into place and I feel more confident.  Check back in a few days because I plan on doing  a picture update of the delivery and first few weeks at home!  I'm not sure how often I will update but I will at least do it once a month and update what is up with Miss Lily.  Here is her one month pic!