Two Months

Olivia is 2 months old!

She gave me lots of smiles for her 2 month pictures.

She is 11 lbs. 5 oz. and 22 inches.
She has been sleeping GREAT.

Most nights she sleeps about 8 hours, eats, then goes back to sleep for about 4 more hours.

She has a favorite toy - the little bunny rattle we bought in Tokyo while trying to spend the little Yen we had left.
She LOVES to watch her big sister. And she loves it when Grace sings to her.
If she cries (which is very rarely) Grace will sing Jesus Loves Me or Jesus Loves the Little Children. She almost always stops and coos :-)
Grace also loves to hold and rock her baby sister.

She still hasn't slept in her crib at night yet but she has taken a few naps in there.
She loves to be wrapped up in her swaddle blanket.
She also loves to hold onto the blanket that Grandma Phyllis crocheted for her. For her afternoon nap I will often lay her down with her blanket and she will wrap her fingers through it and fall asleep. She is so cute like that!

She is getting to be so alert. She coos and talks and will smile back at us.
She is definitely a Mommy's Girl!!!

Just look at that adorable smile :-)
She is such a sweet baby!

We packed up all of her newborn clothes. She can still fit into some 0-3 month things (although she is getting a little too long for the sleepers). She mainly wears 3 months and even a few 3-6 months things. She is growing up too fast!

A Cute Picture

February 27, 2009

It's a long weekend!!

What better way is there to start a 4-day weekend than with a clean house? I think we are really spoiling ourselves and enjoying having our mamasan here every Thursday now! We actually have 2 Japanese ladies who I pick up every Thursday and they clean our house from top to bottom. All 3 bathrooms, dishes, laundry, floors, windows (including the OUTSIDE of the windows in our upstairs bedrooms!) - you name it, they clean it! So the rest of the week we just keep things picked up, do a little laundry and dishes and then let them do the deep cleaning. And we can also focus on organizing (or cleaning out Grace's closet!) but most importantly, we get to spend more time with our little angel!! That right there makes it totally worth the 7000 Yen we pay them.

So this weekend is Valentine's Day. Last night we went to see Bride Wars. There really isn't much of a selection here, especially if you are totally opposed to 9 o'clock movies and want to go on a certain day (our babysitter couldn't come on Saturday because she was babysitting for another family and Sunday is church and Monday is the day before a work/school day so that left Friday) We had a girl from church come over and watch Grace. We came home and the house was still standing and Grace was happy so all is good!! We will definitely have her watch Grace again. I think the rest of the weekend we will be sticking around the house. We have a couple movies to watch and nothing really to do. We might take Grace on a couple walks. I have all of her sun hats out and ready... last walk we took she kept trying to get her paci if it fell out and would end up with her hat covering her face. It was pretty cute so I will have to take a camera and see if I can get a picture if it happens again! And tomorrow is church. Grace loves the swing in the nursery at church so that is always a treat for her.

Now for a couple new pictures

Grace with her Daddy and the big cookie she got him for V-day

We took a few pictures of Grace the other day for her 2 month photos. She was more interested at trying to move than she was taking pictures. But I thought these were pretty cute. Grace makes faces like these a lot. In the first one she is trying so hard to talk and was pretty excited about something she was saying. The second one is a look she gives us when she is trying to figure out what is going on.

2 Months

Yesterday Grace turned 2 months old! It is hard to believe that 2 while months have passed since she was born. She is growing up so fast! We had her 2 month check-up yesterday and the doctor said she was good and healthy. She weighs 11 lbs. 8 oz. and is just a tad over 22 inches tall. She is in the 75th percentile on weight and the 50th in height. She also got her shots and did really well. She slept through it and didn't really cry much at all. She just cried in her sleep a little and as soon as the shots were done she was perfectly quiet again. And she had no side effects from them at all and was such an angel all day long!!

She is learning so much too. The doctor asked if she had developed a social smile yet and, of course, she has. She laughs and coos and has the biggest smile I have ever seen. She is a very happy baby! She has been making little sounds a lot lately. Yesterday she said "Mah." That is half-way to Ma-ma!! She as also been saying "Ah" "Ga" "Ah Ga" "Bah" "Oh" "Uh" and lots more. She rolls over and scoots and can sit upright on the sofa. She LOVES to stand in our laps and just talk and makes the cutest little faces. We can tell she really is trying hard to let us know something. She is also a good sleeper. She has been sleeping through the night quite often lately. She normally will sleep for at least 7 hours and sometimes even 8 or 9! And after she eats she goes right back down in her crib for about 2 - 4 more hours. Oh, and she can pick things up! If I lay her pacifier on the blanket that covers her legs in her carseat she will pick it up and try to put it in her mouth if she wants it. It is so cute to see her holding her paci in her hand and waving it around!!

I took her shopping yesterday and bought her some new bath toys and shoes (she's a girl, she has to love shoes!). Actually, she wouldn't have got them except for she was being such the little angel she is and was sound asleep in her stroller while I was picking up a few things at the BX and I didn't want to disturb her so I just walked through the store a bit longer. She actually got more than that too.. we got her a toothbrush (she needs to get used to it before she gets teeth so we will let her chew on it a bit until then), some new pacifiers that have cases, and some nose drops for her congested little nose (they helped a lot!).

I think I might try to take some pictures today or tomorrow to post. Our internet has been off and on a lot lately (mostly off). They are coming to look at it tomorrow so hopefully they can figure it out but most likely I won't be able to post anything until after they get it fixed because it cuts out a lot.