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Katie’s one-month appointment

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Unfortunately, I wasn’t quite as enamored with the pediatrician’s office this time. Last time, I got in before my scheduled time. Today? Just over 45 minutes late. With no explanation or apology. :## I’m just hoping it was an off day, as one of the other waiting patients made a comment that they’ve never had to wait before.

So…Katie gained {one ounce shy of} two pounds in the past two weeks! She’s 10 lbs. 13oz.—95th percentile in height and weight, baby.

Lordy. Another Owen in the making…

Weight: 10 lbs. 13 oz!! (was 8 lbs. 14 oz at two weeks)
Height: 21-3/4″ (was 20.5″ at birth)
Head:

I like the pediatrician well enough, but she DIDN’T LISTEN to me today—not a big deal overall, but it was annoying. She asked how much Katie was eating and how often. I said 4-5oz every 2-3 hours EXCEPT at night since she sleeps through the night. So she does the mental calculation half out loud (24 hours / every 3 hours = 8 feedings at 5oz each) and says “So you’re feeding her 40oz a day? That’s too much.” With a definite judgmental-sounding tone.

Um, no.

I repeated that it wasn’t ALL day since she slept through the night. So I pulled out my handy dandy baby tracking app and told her the average daily feeding was 25.6oz, the most per day was 29 and the least per day was 22. Then she was happy. 🙄 So from now on I will just tell her the total average ounces. 😐

But she said overall Katie looked to be doing really well and to just keep doing what we were doing!

Katie is one month old today!

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The little girl did pretty well with her first monthly photo session…I got the shot before she spit up on her outfit! (And the matching sticker and onesie was completely by accident! That was what she had on overnight and it was still clean this morning so I left it on—then got out the stickers and saw that it matched perfectly!)

Subtly telling me what she thinks of this photo shoot? :))

Two decent outtakes:

Progress? Probably just luck.

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So, after a handful of “nights” of Katie waking up at 4am to eat (and me writing about it yesterday)…last night—well, this morning—it was 6:45! But the price I paid is that she didn’t take her morning nap (which is what I count on to get things done).

And even though she slept in, I didn’t sleep great… I woke up at 3 when she had a mini in-her-sleep outburst, then at 3:45 when Tom’s alarm went off (vibration, but still), then at 5 when he actually got up and showered and I was somewhat paranoid listening for her (positive she’d be waking up ANY minute), then at 6 when I got up to pee…

So, YAY for Katie, but I’m still :zz::zz::zz:

Katie is regressing.

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I know her schedule isn’t set in stone since she’s still so young, but I was really used to the 5a or 6a feeding. The past few nights it’s been 4a. 😐 And when she’s up at 4, that means she’ll be up again around 8, which doesn’t give me a lot of time to get anything done in the morning.

I know it’s still not bad AT ALL because I just have to do one nighttime feeding…but I’m more tired now than when she first came home and that just doesn’t seem right. |-|

:zz:

Welcome to my neuroses.

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I am trying to figure out how to categorize/sort/label my Katie photos. Owen was easy—separate folders for Year | Month. But now that Katie is here, I’m at a loss. I started doing the same as Owen (Year | Month) but she’s obviously in pictures with Owen…so do the photos go in Owen, Katie, or a new Siblings folder? For the month she was born, I put Owen photos in Owen, Katie photos in Katie, and mixed photos in the folder of whoever seemed to be the main subject of the photo.

Then I figured that maybe I would just group them in a generic Kids folder…but there are times when I take a ton of Owen or a ton of Katie—that could really go in their own folder.

I thought about tagging, but I’m not sure how helpful that really is on my computer (Windows 7). (I know you CAN tag things, but I haven’t really used it or used it to search, so I’m not sure how beneficial it would really be.) I know people use Picasa, but I have tried using it in the past but all I remember is that last time I used it—and tagged EVERYTHING—my hard drive died (or something) and I lost all my work. So I don’t want to waste my time with that again.

Then there’s POSTING the photos. I upload monthly photos to Shutterfly. So, there are (obviously) 41 monthly folders of Owen. I started an album for Katie (currently one folder!)…but these should mimic what I do on my computer. Right? To keep the confusion to a minimum?

And don’t even get me started on this blog. I called it Baby. Now it should be Kids but I’m sure that’s a nightmare to change. And all the posts about Owen I want labeled as Owen but there is NO easy way to do that, so I’m just tagging Katie posts with Katie to at least differentiate that way. I get a headache just thinking about it.

WELCOME TO MY NEUROSES. :**:

Walking like a zombie…and more!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJw_FJOURG4

Owen is obsessed with zombies, thanks to Tom’s iPhone game Plants vs. Zombies. He will tell you they pee on the floor (like they do in the game), he will list off characters (the one with the screen door, the one with the zamboni, etc.), and he will walk like a zombie… (And then of course he wants me to turn the phone/camera around so he can see himself, but of course it doesn’t work like that.)

He’s also obsessed with FINISH LINES, courtesy of the Cars Wii game he’s been addicted to for months…so he’s always talking about finish lines and spelling F-I-N-I-S-H. I can’t quite make out the first few words he’s whispering, but then I definitely hear finish line. Then I try to get him to say “Arrrr” like a pirate but it doesn’t quite turn out like I thought. 🙂

Owen holds Katie! Owen feeds Katie!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGojz3OUFZo

He finally agreed to hold her today! Thank heavens for iPhones so I could capture it—I asked him like I always do but I really wasn’t expecting him to say yes so I didn’t have my real camera handy.

He was practically giddy with excitement and was all smiles—it was SO cute!

Checking himself out in the mirror!

And then he was done…and off doing Owen stuff again.

ARRRRRR!!!

He said I love you.

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Owen will say “I love you” back to you if you prompt him, but he’s never said it of his own free will (that I can recall). I know it’s just part of his language issues, but I still hope for the day when it happens…which turned out to be tonight. I’m sure it was a fluke (I won’t say it’s a normal thing until it happens repeatedly) but I’ll take it…

I was putting him to bed and, as usual, told him I loved him. And he said “I love you” right back, as if he’s been saying it forever.

Yeah, I melted and got tears in my eyes.

NHCL welcomes newborns with sweet salutes

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The Camp Lejeune Globe published this story on Facebook today:

You only get one chance to make a first impression, and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune’s newest family members are doing it in style.

When the double ring of bells toll over the intercoms, attention is assumed on the decks of Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune.

“Announcing the arrival of baby girl (or boy), United States Marine Corps,” a voice echoes through the facility, followed by the familiar notes of the lullaby “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”

I posted on their Facebook page that I just delivered on 7/10 and we didn’t hear anything…though maybe I wasn’t paying attention or maybe they don’t do it at 3:29am. 🙂

They responded:

Congratulations Jennifer Hudson! That’s quite a way to start your day! According to Capt. Lane, babies born very late in the evening or very early in the morning are all announced at 8 a.m. out of respect for other patients who have the luxury of sleeping during normal hours. Hopefully you were catching a few winks when the bells tolled. You deserve it!

I probably was sleeping—or otherwise occupied—but it would have been really cool to hear it (i.e. know about it in advance).