eleanor: three months!

weight
3 month weight check in showed she had gained almost a pound and a half... 10lbs 12oz!

health
a few boogers here and there and lots of sneezes (just like her daddy and brother she will never sneeze just once... i think i counted 8 one time!), but overall perfectly healthy. hope to keep it that way!

clothes
fitting nicely into 3 month clothes now (with a few still too big)

sleep
i know i will jinx myself by saying this, but both of my children have been great sleepers (for the most part) since they were born. although henry rarely sleeps past 5:30am, they both go to sleep relatively early at night and sleep well throughout. there have been a few nights recently when E will wake up around 430 or 5am and want to eat a little bit, but then she will go back to bed (she usually has a wet diaper at that time which may be why she wakes up and then she just figures why not eat since im already up... takes after her mommy there). otherwise she will go to bed around 7pm and sleep 10-11 hours. her naps vary throughout the day, a few short ones and one long one. she is almost outgrowing her bassinet (shes about to roll over and tends to almost sleep on her side crunched up on the edge of the bassinet) and we moved that into her bedroom this week. crib soon to come! (i need to figure out what to do with all of her stuffies!)

crying
very rare. even when she is hungry she just chews on her hand. but she will let you know if you arent coming to get her when she wakes up or arent quick enough getting food to her face.

milestones
she can sit up pretty well in the bumbo seat (with some padding behind her). her head has been very strong basically since she was born. we almost got the high chair out last night but the house is filled with enough christmas stuff i think we will wait a little while longer. (side note: how is she already big enough to start using a high chair?! slow down!!) she is so so so close to rolling over, and looking back at henry's 3 month blog it seems they both loved to roll to their left and then get stuck. it will happen soon im sure. she is very good at getting herself all turned around on her play mat though.
were still waiting for her to laugh which also should be coming shortly. she smiles and opens her mouth really wide when you are trying to make her laugh but no sound comes out (but she is very verbal with babble now in general). its so cute. she grabs for fingers and toys when put close to her hands, and will swat at some of her rattle toys hanging above her in her chair and car seat. she is also some weird houdini magician and can somehow get out of her pants while she is sleeping. this has happened quite a few times now, quite a wiggle worm apparently!

baby gear love
we give her time on the piano play mat still... i dont think shes as into it as henry was, but she still likes to look at herself in the mirror hanging above her, as well as moving around in circles on the mat and trying to roll over. i recently put her in the swing that my neighbors gave us and she seemed to not hate it anymore. some of her naps are still taken in the rock n play. and we introduced the bumbo which i love and she doesnt hate, so thats a win.

outings
E is a great traveler, which makes life easier. the usual- dunkin donuts, hannaford and target. we also went to my cousin Katie's baby shower and many trips to skowhegan (and we finally have a car that will fit all of us when we go! during the month of november and while i was on maternity leave we were having to take both the truck and the car in order to take both kids, the dog and all of our stuff. we finally made the move to get a car big enough for everyone!)

first snowfall

we need to go to target again?!

diapers
still in size 1. i had semi good intentions to finally start using cloth diapers and when i went to put them on her (our smallest size) they didnt fit. oops. so maybe ill start again soon with the next size (dont ask why i didnt just try them that day. its baby steps with my overall mental health on these decisions and it was a battle i decided not to fight on that day. i know it makes no sense to anyone other than me since i was ready to start with the smaller size).

diet
its no wonder this little one grew so much in one month... she eats like a champ! 5 to 6oz bottles in one sitting and then a half hour later is shoving her fist in her mouth again and will eat another 1 to 2 oz (then passsssss out!) she is no longer exclusively breastmilk fed, i just couldnt keep up. im still pumping about 18-22oz a day for her and breastfeeding her here and there (im typically off schedule with her by about 2 hours so its hard, plus shes still hungry after i feed her so its just easier to pump and give her a ready made bottle). ive just started trying to eliminate the middle of the night pump so i can get more of a stretch of sleep which is nice.

likes
everything! she is still such a happy baby. she really enjoys spending time with his grandma and papa, nee and dee, and is super interested in everything her brother does (and especially loves when he reads to her). she really enjoys bath time too.

dislikes
when you take her food away from her so that she can burp. also seems to tolerate yet will likely one day roll her eyes at all the silly emoji pics henry and i do with her haha.

its so hard to believe she is already 3 months old and we are going to be celebrating her first christmas!! it is so amazing to watch her grow and learn. we all love you so much Eleanor Lynne!

eleanor: two months!

weight
at yesterdays appointment she was 9lbs 2.8oz

do you like my muscles? ive been working out

health
it appears we are growing a bobblehead... her 2 month stats were- head 15.25inches (67th percentile), 21.5 inches long (11th percentile), 9lbs 2.8oz... 6th percentile! haha. her head really doesnt look to be disproportionate to her body by any means, i just think the numbers are funny. shes just gonna be super smart with a huge brain! the doctor said everything is fine with her weight but wants us to come back in at 3 months instead of waiting for her 4 month check up to just make sure she is gaining enough. we also had a little bit of oral thrush earlier this month and had to give her some oral medicine for that. i was also put on some medication so that my boobs didnt get infected. fun stuff (but yay it worked!). although it was annoying to remember/fit in giving her the medicine 4 times a day, she took it like a champ.

clothes
just packed up the last of her newborn sized clothes. the onesies still kinda fit, tough to get over her head though (see above). 0-3 month clothes fits the best, and 3 month clothes is pretty big on her but she wears it anyway. we have tons and tons (and im serious, tons!) of short sleeve onesies (we actually have tons of clothes in general!), sadly most wont even be worn im sure (i do turn the heat up during the day but her circulation in her hands sucks so i try to keep her mostly in long sleeves). she hates wearing socks, just like her brother at this age. she sleeps in onesies and pants inside fleece sleep sacks because the 3 month pajamas with feet make her crazy- she kicks her legs and feet so much and her feet come out from the bottom foot part and she cant get them back in (they get stuck up in the leg) and it just becomes one big hot mess. one morning i took her out of the sleep sack and she had somehow gotten herself out of her pants. i dont even know how that is possible.

sleep

its now been over one week straight that she has slept in the bassinet! she still naps in the rock n play (and both the bassinet and rock n play have a vibrating option that she apparently needs to have on at most times, and she wakes up when it shuts off. not ideal but we'll get through it). shes a great sleeper, getting anywhere between 4 to 6.5 hours during the night. naps during the day are shorter but frequent. i feed her before she goes to bed around 8pm, then i pump around midnight (and get the most milk during that pumping session) so i will still continue to do that for a little while longer (overall i am getting a total of about 8.5 hours of sleep on average at night, just with one or two feeding/pumping sessions breaking that time up). she is, for the most part, able to soothe herself to sleep, sometimes needing her pacifier but not always. we have started a nighttime routine of changing her clothes in her room, singing to her and putting on nighttime lotion just like we did with henry. it worked really well with him so we figured we would start early with her as well.

crying
E rarely cries unless she is hungry or wet and we havent gotten to her ahead of it. she does, however, have a pretty precise witching hour at night where she is basically inconsolable. for a while i was the only one that could help her (not ideal) and even sometimes i couldnt help her, but that has gotten better. if we keep her fed it seems to help keep her happy. go figure. overall she is a very happy little girl.

milestones
she has very good control of her head/strong neck (and has since almost right after birth). she has strong standing and walking reflexes, grabs onto fingers and blankets, tracks your voice, smiles, coos... all of the things babies i guess should be doing around now. she is much more awake during the day and is starting to like tummy time a little bit more. she also will mimic funny faces that we make at her like opening our mouths really wide and sticking our tongue out.

baby gear love
just like henry (apparently in his 2 month blog as well!) E is loving the fisher price discover n grow kick and play piano gym. she hadnt enjoyed being on her back recently but i thought i would get it out and try it, and she loves it! also like her brother, E enjoys looking at herself in the mirror on the bar above her. although this isnt necessarily for the baby, i am getting good use out of the "haakaa" hand breast pumps. i ended up buying a 2nd one because i used the first one so much i wanted a back up to have incase the other was still drying. i typically use one when i am feeding (on the opposite breast) to catch any let down dripping, and i also use one if i am just pumping on one side. all of this is very new to me since i was not really able to breastfeed henry for long (and pumping for him was awful and short lived).

outings
where dont we go? lots of trips to target. weve been going to skowhegan every weekend while daddy hunts (which allows me to sleep in because henry hangs out with grandma!). E went to grammy nee and grampy dee's house for the first time this past weekend while i ran a 5k. she is a great traveler and falls asleep within about 5 minutes in the car. we also were able to visit the mellen street market one last time before grampy dee retired from working there.

and you better believe when we go out im super stylish!

not an outing, but the red sox won the world series!!

diapers
we just used up the last of the newborn sized seventh generation diapers. i didnt like them to begin with (and almost sold them) but i stuck with it and just used them because we had them. size 1 diapers are a little big but work well (only a few blow outs, most stays contained). i havent started using cloth diapers yet only because im already feeling overwhelmed with the amount of laundry we have i just cant. but i will. (i set everything out in preparation... soon... i also think i will be the only person doing it this time).

diet
99.9% mommys milk!! i could write an entire post about this (maybe i will)... what a different experience than with henry. twice i have given her 1oz of formula because i was wanting to make sure she didnt have an adverse reaction to it incase she needed to take any formula while i was at work. she got super gassy (worse than she is normally, which is pretty bad in itself), so i threw the rest of it out (it was a small sample we got in the mail). i have over 100oz of breast milk saved, so i dont foresee us needing to use formula in the near future. im not sure exactly how much she is drinking (at this point we knew henry was taking 4oz bottles at a time)- she pretty much just feeds on demand. overnight i am pumping between 3.5 to 5oz so im sure she is around that when she eats. the middle of the night feeding she eats like a bird which is why i pump first, and she eats the most first thing in the morning.

likes
E loves eating, sleeping, farting, and being super cute! she loves loves loves the changing table (and spends a ton of time there!). she likes to fall asleep on your chest and is slowly beginning to like the bouncing seat. she also loves her brother (and her brother really loves her!)

dislikes
just like henrys blog, she hates being wet. must be a baby thing... although to be honest, i would hate it too (and actually get to experience it most every run i have done haha).