Wow, do I love this baby. She's snuggly, smiley, sweet and in such a great stage right now. She's a big girl and growing like crazy, here is her 2 month update.
Eating:
She is definitely a great eater. She eats about every 3 hours during the day and is easy, easy. During the night, at the beginning of the month she was eating a few times, now she's down to *usually* once at night.
Size:
We just had her 2 month appointment and she:
Height: 22.7" (84%)
Weight: 11lbs lloz (81%)
For Fun here is Lainie at 2 months
H-22.75"
W-11lbs 11oz
and Ruthie:
H-22.25" (61%)
W-10lbs 2 oz (31%)
Its absolutely hilarious to me Ellie and Lainie are pretty much identical at 2 months and Ruthie was so small. My Dad says that Ruthie and I are going to spend most of our lives looking up to Lainie and Ellie and I think he's right! The little girls must take after their Daddy and Ruthie is more like me.
She is wearing 3-6 month clothes and if I try and squeeze her into a 3 month-er, she pops the snaps when she bends her knees. She's long, not chunky.
She's in size 2 diapers and I have switched to 7th generation and honest company diapers for the most part. Our grocery store had 7th generation on clearance and they were cheaper than pampers and I love them. A friend gave us honest company diapers as a baby gift and they're great too. I still have some pampers left that we're using up, but I think when they're gone, I won't buy anymore. I wish I had changed with Ruthie and Lainie.
Eyes:
They look blue to us so far.
She does pretty good at home. She spends a lot of time in the car and baby bjorn but sleeps well in her crib. She usually sleeps the last 1 1/2 hours of a 3 hour block. She's on a pretty good schedule even without being at home a lot.
Nighttime sleep:
The first part of the month, she was up every 3 hours, but now She's so good. She's started having stretches of 7-9 hours. When she was waking every couple of hours at night, but I think that was a growth spurt (or several). I had that moment of panic the first night she slept when I woke up and realized she was asleep. I think I ran to the crib in about .001 seconds to make sure she was okay. The past week she's gone from about 7pm/8pm-4am, then back down until 7am-ish.
Swaddled:
Of course. She must have a ridiculous amount of strength because she can get out of the miracle blanket and as much as it hurts me to say it, for Ellie, that is not my swaddler of choice. Since she is so strong, I learned about something called a woombie. I can't believe I didn't know about it before but it is awesome! You just zip it up, no getting out, and the one we have has legs which I think she likes better. It has two zippers so you can zip up just the bottom part to change a diaper if you need. This is the one I use constantly now. I need a picture of it.
You know it. She likes the soothies. I bought Playtex binky's, but she isn't a fan, so soothies it is. My friend makes paci clips for them and we love them! She doesn't use it all the time, just mainly in the car and when she's going to sleep. From reading Lainie's 2 month update, that how she did also, and now she has it all the time! I'm glad its not her thumb!
-When you talk to her. She coos constantly when you talk to her and it is so so so sweet! She smiles with her entire face, big open mouth smiles. We love it!
-the playmat and Mr. Octopus and Ms. Flower. We've gotten some mileage out of Mr. Octopus and Ms. Flower.
-baby bjorn. She likes to be close and sleeps well in the carrier. She's getting heavier and I'm looking forward to when she can switch to the boba carrier.
-To be held upright.
-Her Sisters! Its a mutual love and just about Every time Ruthie looks at her she smiles. She might have the worlds best big sisters. They are crazy about baby ehwee. So cute!
-To be outside. Thank goodness. She loves to go for walks, swing on the swing, and just hang out.
Not the best picture of Ruthie, but too cute of Ellie not to post. That's a Roberts look if I've ever seen one, but the bigger she gets, the less of this look she has. Her eyes are much bigger than this picture looks. Good thing Daddy makes a really pretty girl, apparently in three different versions :-).
-the swing for long. What a bummer, we have the worlds best swing now (and we kind of want an adult version of it!), and sometimes she'll nap in the swing, and sometimes she hates it. I'm hoping it'll grow on her. I wish I'd had this swing for all three girls too. Its a graco sweetpeace soothing swing and it is awesome! If you have a graco carseat, you can pop it into the swing if the baby's asleep.
-The bouncy seat for long. She'll stay in it for about 5 minutes, then she's done. If we eat really fast, we can all sit at the table for dinner while she sits in the bouncy seat.
-The carseat. Awesome.
Other:
-Daddy's chin prevails!
-Speaking of Daddy, it doesn't get much better than this guy. I can't imagine doing this without him, he makes all our lives better.
-Regarding the carseat, before Ruthie was born we got a graco snugride 32. She hated it. Then came Lainie and, what a shock, she hated it too. At that point, I got suspicious that it was the carseat and not my kids just not liking the car. I should've bought a new carseat when Ruthie hated it, but no, we're kinda cheap, we still have it. When Ellie arrived, and also hated it, we finally bit the bullet and bought her a Daddy of a carseat. Its called a Diono (formerly Sunshine brand). Its the only carseat she'll ever need, and the advantage of this brand is that it is about 3 inches narrower than our gigantic Britax carseats. This is a pretty big deal when you've gotta put three carseats in a car that's not a minivan. Had I known we would have three kids in three years, I would've gotten all Dionos, because you can put three across one row. They're heavy as lead because they have a steel frame and they're one of the top picks for safety. She is much happier in this carseat. She doesn't love it all the time, but better yet, she doesn't hate it all the time. The bummer is I can't pop her in and out of the car in the infant carseat, but I found even with the Graco, I couldn't see both Ruthie and Lainie when I was holding the carseat so I never did that anyways. I didn't feel like it was safe. I have to get her in and out all the time and while it stinks when she's asleep, its not near as big of a deal as I thought it would be (or would've been when I just had Ruthie and Lainie).
-Another new thing for us this time is the co-sleeper Joel's Grandma bought us. It has been a lifesaver for me. With just Ruthie it wasn't a big deal to get up and walk across to her room several times a night, but with three, the exhaustion was an entirely new level and this allowed us all to get more sleep! Should've gotten this with the first one!
-She spits up. Our first baby to do this, sometimes its shocking the quantity. It never seems to bother her and is getting less and less frequent.
Ellie is such a good girl. She has fit right in easily here and we're all crazy about her. People love to tell us we've got my hands full and while I've stopped taking offense to it (that's an entirely different post), they have no idea how full our hearts are.
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