One Month Check-up

I took Abby in for her one month check-up this morning. Luckily, there wasn't as long of a wait as there has been in the past since I had Alex, Chris, and Daniel with me.

The appointment went well. She looks healthy, still a little yellow, but everything else looks good. She now weighs 8 pounds, 13 ounces and they measured her back at 20-3/4 inches. That puts her at about the 35th percentile for both height and weight. Her head is a little smaller, at about the 13th percentile, but it's growing and going up on the scale too.

Because she is still looking yellow a bit, and because of the antibody, her doctor had me take her down to the lab for another blood test. He was going to check to make sure she's not anemic and check her biliruben count and check for a different kind of jaundice to make sure she's okay. He said that usually at this age if they're jaundiced it's because of breastfeeding, but he wanted to make sure the antibody wasn't causing problems still.

The boys tried to be good for the doctor appointment and for the lab, but they just had a few too many wiggles that had to get out occasionally. For the most part they were pretty good, but they did have their moments. So I got out of there without too big of a headache. :)

Update:
The doctor's office called this afternoon and said that everything with the blood tests checked out okay and they'll retest them again at her 2 month appointment. I'm supposed to watch for her looking pale though, and if she does, I take her in sooner.

One Month Old

Abigail is a month old today. That month has gone by really fast for me. A lot faster than the month before I had her, that's for sure. She's smiling a little bit now and sometimes sounds like she laughs. She seems to like being tickled, since she gets a rather pleasant expression on her face when I tickle her. She's still a good baby and we love having her in our family.

Here are some more pictures of her. :)

This first one was taken back on the 23rd of Chris holding Abby:


The rest of these look pretty similar to the others I've posted previously, but they were taken today:

Daniel

So the picture I have for Daniel on my wall (currently not on the wall, since the boys broke the frame) is from way back when he was around 3 months old or so. He's now 22 months old. So yes, I definitely need to get a new picture of him. On the same note, the pictures of Alex and Chris on my wall were taken when Daniel was a week old, but they haven't changed as much as he has.

So this morning I thought I'd try taking a few pictures of Daniel to see if any would turn out good enough for me to want to get in a larger print to put up on the wall. Here are the pictures I took:

This first one looks like he was lying down, just kind of hanging out, but he was sitting up and waving his arms. He likes having his picture taken.


I think he's cute in this one, but wish I had gotten it a little lower so his head would be all the way in it.


He decided not to really smile for this one, but man, he has huge eyes.


He looks so innocent here.


I swear we have a picture of Chris in exactly this position looking almost exactly the same. Switch the hair to blonde, and it would be Chris.


Daniel decided to walk towards the camera in this one, so it's a close-up.


I think Daniel is a cutie. But I'm not biased in any way at all. If you think any of those would work for a wall portrait, let me know. Thanks!

Some more pictures

I just thought I'd post a few more pictures today. I took some pictures of the boys at their soccer games on Saturday, but of course forgot to get the camera out at Ben's game (his team won that game, by the way, which was their first win ever. Ben says it is more fun to have his team win.). Then I have a few more pictures of Abby. She'd look really cute and I'd go to take the picture and she'd make a face or close her eyes or something. But she's still cute. :)

These first two are from Chris's game:


This one is at Alex's game:

This one was taken by Ben at Alex's game:

Here's Abby:

Why do I get the feeling that she likes making faces for the camera?

She was actually smiling in this one. She had her eyes open wider with the wide smile after I took this, but moved before I could get another picture:

Abby at 2 weeks

Abby is 2 weeks old today. That seems crazy to me. Those two weeks have just flown by.

For the first week, she was on the biliblanket, but got to come off it last Friday. That was really nice, because I could take her more places and not have to just leave her in the crib most of the time.

She's starting to stay awake a little more now than she did at first, but she's still a really good baby. She's very mellow and hardly ever cries, and if she does cry, she calms down quickly when we hold her.

It's kind of crazy to think that we were kind of expecting to have her around now, not 2 weeks ago. I'm glad we have her though and that I don't have to go through all the fun of labor and afterpains (although they weren't bad this time) right now.

Here are a few pictures I took of Abby today. They're not great, so I may try to take some better ones later. You'll probably notice that her face still looks a bit yellow from the jaundice. It's looking a lot better than it was though.





And just because I have it, this is a picture I took of Ben, Alex, and their friend Kyle at the soccer games last Saturday: