2 month doctor's appointment and shots...

today k had her 2 month dr. appointment. dill and i took her to her appointment. i was a little anxious about this appointment because at two moths most babies begin immunizations (so k was scheduled for two shots). her dr. gave her the regular physical and confirmed that she has eczema :( then the nurse came in to give the shot. i was hoping they would let dill hold her but the nurse said she had to be on the table/bed. so he held her hand. i had to turn away when the nurse gave her the actual shot (i know i'm a punk) but miss k was a brave. she cried for a bit but i immediately picked her up and she calmed down. she pouted for on the way to the car but fell asleep on the way home. she stay asleep for almost three hours but then woke up happy and smiling. i was worried she'd be fussy but my little girl was her normal happy self (except she did nap more than usual).

k also grew (quite a bit) from her 1 month appointment. here are her new stats:
weight- 11 lb. 8.5 oz. (50th percentile for age)
length- 23 in. (50th percentile for age)
head circumference- 39 cm

here are a couple photos from the day...

k in the waiting room (i wonder if she knew what was going to happen)


dill talking to her before the nurse came to give her the shot

-ty

who does karys look like?

the jury is still out on who karys looks like. i often hear she looks like me but quite a few people have said she looks like dill too. i'm not sure. some days i think she looks like me and other days i agree she looks like dill. so i found a look-alike meter online for a more "objective" opinion and here are the results:









so (it depends on the photos but) for the most part k look like me. or at least that's what the look alike meter says...
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two months old...

karys is two months old today! time is sure going by quickly. here's her two month photo (in her monthsies)...




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montage monday...

i haven't had a chance to blog in awhile. karys and i were in nj last week and the last two days k's sleeping pattern has been crazy (i'll post about it later). so i missed two photo fridays :( to make up for it i'll call today montage monday. enjoy!



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50 things about karys...

karys is 50 days old so i figured i'd write 50 things (you may or may not know) about her...

1. karys' name is derived from greek χαρις (charis).
   
2. it means "grace" or "favourite".
3. her middle name is elizabeth (after her maternal great-great-grandmother).
4. k was born on sept. 26 (which is the 269th day of the year--270th in leap years).
5. she was born after her due date.
6. she shares her birthday with writer t. s. eliot, former south african politician winnie mandela, former governor of new jersey christine todd whitman, actress/singer olivia newton-john, singer cindy herron (from en vogue), actress/singer christina milian, tennis pro serena williams, my mom's good friend karen c., my former neighbor mr. byard, and cousin bernadette.
7. her astrological sign is a libra.
8. k's birthstone is sapphire (for clear thinking).
9. her flower is the morning_glory.
10. she was born in the chinese year of the pig.
11. she snores (which she gets from her daddy).
    
12. from all early indications she’s going to be a diva. at her 1 month pediatrician visit the nurse called her a piece of work.
13. she can eat. she's been a good eater from day one--in fact at her one week dr. appointment she was almost at her birth weight again.
    
14. she is ticklish.
15. k started sleeping through the night at about 6 weeks old (let's hope she continues this).
16. she stopped being swaddled at 6 weeks.
17. she likes baths now (initially she screamed through them).
18. she doesn't like things (i.e., shirts, sleepers, etc.) going over her face.
    
19. she is a night owl (like her mommy).
20. she like to sleep late (also like her mommy).
    
21. she likes music (she "sings" and "dances" to it).
22. she prefers upbeat music rather than ballads (which she also gets from her daddy).
    
23. she has a dimple (like her grandma elmore & uncle boogie) on her right cheek.
24. k has good lungs and can get quite loud.
25. her lungs have always worked well. she came out screaming (in fact she got a 9 and 10 on her apgars).
    
26. she wakes up in the morning smiling/happy.
27. she like to talk to/call her "mom-mom" while she gets her morning diaper change.
    
28. she loves to be held.
29. she likes to swing (like her cousin kanaiya).
    
30. she talks/babbles a lot! (she’ll probably get in trouble--like her mommy--for talking in school).
31. she is inquisitive/alert and takes in her surroundings.
    
32. she's very expressive and makes funny faces. (her daddy says some of her faces remind him of her aunt valarie).
    
33. she takes a long time to burp--although lately she's getting better.
34. she likes napping on her daddy's chest.
35. she's social and seems to enjoy meeting new people.
    
36. she loves to be read to. (just like her daddy--who listens to audio books).
    
37. she has hands and feet like her daddy.
    
38. she has eyes like her mommy.
    
39. she likes to blow spit bubbles (like her auntie lashona did when she was little).
40. she's a heavy sleeper (when we try to wake her up).
41. but she's a light sleeper when we want her to sleep.
    
42. she does't really like "tummy time" (but will tolerate it sometimes).
    
43. she dressed up as a chili pepper for halloween 2007.
44. she poots loud (and a lot)!
45. she snorts when she laughs (like her daddy).
46. she grunts when she’s frustrated/mad.
47. she will start kindergarten in 2013,
48. be old enough to drive a car in 2023,
49. finish high school in 2026,
    
50. and will graduate from college with the class of 2030, give or take a year...

-ty

sleeping throught the night and no more swaddle...

karys is starting to sleep through the night (STTN). she slept from midnight until at least 4:30am (and sometimes 5am or 6am) four times last week and and almost every night this week. YAHOO! she also doesn't need to be swaddled anymore. instead she's using a wearable blanket. my little baby is growing up. in fact, she's 7 weeks old today. she's getting bigger and doing more and more each day...
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photo friday (11/9)...

this week's photo friday features karys "playing"...

tummy time (which she usually doesn't like)
looking in the mirror
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doctors' appointments (for karys and mom)

yesterday karys and i both had doctor's appointments. mine was scheduled. it was supposed to be a "routine" 6 week postpartum visit. but it wasn't so routine. i found out i probably have (not one but) two hernias. one (an umbilical) hernia is probably the result of carrying such a big baby and the other (an incision) hernia is from the c-section. sadly, they may require surgery. that little (or not so little) baby did a number on my body. well the pregnancy went well it was just she was a big girl and i stomach got very big. it looked crazy. here's a photo in case you didn't see the original post...k's appointment wasn't scheduled. i took her in because what i thought was a heat rash was getting worse. come to find out it wasn't heat rash but probably infant seborrhoeic dermatitus (more commonly known as cradle cap) on her forehead, eyelids, ears, and neck. it doesn't see to bother her and the pediatrician said it was temporary and fairly common. he told us to use cetaphil body wash and cream. hopefully the cetaphil will help...

for mom-mom...

(karys') mom-mom wants me to post photos everyday. yesterday she asked me about "new photos". the conversation went like this...

mom-mom: "how's my granddaughter? i miss her. do you have any new photos?"
me: "she's great. she misses you too (and so do i). and no i don't have any new photos. not since the ones i posted on friday."
mom-mom: "why not?"
me: "why not? ummm, because i don't take photo of her all day/every day."
mom-mom: "really? what else do yo have to do..."

i tried to explain to her i was busy taking care of karys (i.e., entertaining her, changing diapers, nursing, burping, wiping spit-up, etc.) as well as doing household chores and attempting to work on my dissertation. so sorry mom-mom i don't take photos every day. but i did take some today (just for you) since she was wearing the jeans you got her. so here are the photos (with commentary from karys). enjoy!

"there she goes with the camera again..."
"i'll just look away. maybe she'll stop taking pictures...""that didn't work. well i just won't smile...""still taking pictures? why mommy? why?..."
"okay, maybe if i give her a little smile she'll leave me alone..."
"happy? now can you put the camera away and feed me..."
hope you like the pictures and we'll try to visit you soon...

“Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.”

-Welsh Proverb

-ty

p.s. thanks again for the jeans!

photo friday (11/2)...

this week's photos were actually taken by christie adams. she's the photographer who will be taking k's photos throughout her first year. she came to our house (on tuesday) right after k's dr. appointment (and k was hungry and a little cranky) so we weren't sure how well the photos would turn out. but we were very happy with the results. here's a preview...





p.s. i was telling my mom that k is gettg a reputation with photographers as being a "difficult subject". and, my mom's response was "it's not just photographers...didn't the nurse call her a 'piece of work '?". so my baby has "personality". dill & i knew that before she was born. wonder where she gets it from...
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smiling...

karys has been smiling for awhile now but i couldn't catch it on film. i love it when she smiles (it makes me smile too)! the halloween photo below is the first photo where she was sorta smiling. in her other photos she's been sleeping, crying, looking annoyed or startled. but as you can see in the halloween photo she is actually a happy baby (at least some of the time)...

Smiling is infectious,
You can catch it like the flu.
Someone smiled at me today,
And I started smiling too.
~Author Unknown

-ty