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Two Months

Elsie is two months old! Here is her two month sizing shot. My little girl is getting so big! She also had her two month doctors check up, and here are her stats:

Weight - 10 lbs 6.5 oz - 46 percentile
Length - 23.63 in - 91 percentile
Head circumference - 14.96 in - 31 percentile

Everything else went just fine. She had her first round of shots, and it was fairly traumatizing for her(and for me). Once she calmed down, which took the better part of an hour, she decided she was ok and we even got a few more smiles out of her later that evening. She really is a good baby.

Here is the rest of the pictures from her 2 month photo shoot.


I love my baby. I am so glad that little Elsie has joined our family. Sure, things can be a little trying at times, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Our lives have changed and we don't get to and can't do a lot of the things we used to, but I gladly give it up for the opportunity to have Elsie in our life. It really is an amazing experience. Elsie is such a sweet baby. She's becoming quite the little traveler. She's already been on more plane trips in her two months then I had in all my growing up years. But she takes everything in stride and doesn't complain much about anything. She is still sleeping through the night and is always ready with a big smile. I couldn't ask for a better little girl.

Sweet Child of Mine

Here's some favorites from Elsie's first photo shoot with her

Aunt Becky.

Kapow!

Welcome to Oregon

Elsie and I made it to Oregon yesterday after a loooong flight. Elsie is quite the good little flyer, she was wonderful on the 7 hour trip (2 flights and one layover). Its good to be in the Northwest again!

Guess What Chicken Butt

In my first trimester with this last pregnancy, I had a really hard time with chicken. Eating it, cooking it, even looking at it. I've gotten over a lot of it now, but I still really don't like cooking chicken. So, I decided to just buy a whole chicken so I could cook it all at once and then have left over cooked chicken to use in other meals. What I didn't realize is how gross or how freaked out I would get over having to deal with a giant dead chicken carcass....yuck.


But I did it!!

It actually turned out pretty tasty. I used a very simple recipe, and it came out nice a juicy. There is a lot of meat left over (I made Alan de-bone the chicken...to gross for me), and I've already made enchiladas that are sitting in the fridge waiting to be baked for dinner tonight. Good stuff.

And just cause no blog post would be complete without it, here's a cute picture of Elsie. This is the outfit her daddy dressed her in today. Gotta love it. :)

Happy Memorial Day!

We have a thumb sucker

We always thought Elsie would be a finger sucker. Ever since we brought her home from the hospital she wasn't happy sleeping unless she had her hands by her face. She's been sucking on her fists for a while, but she has finally figured out how to find her thumb. She figured it out a few days ago, and has just been get better at it. As you can see, though, she is still not too sure what to do with her other fingers. As of right now, they just get smashed up against her face and make it so she snorts when she breaths.