Juliet’s cord fell off a few days ago so she finally got a real bath. She loved it! Big sister loved watching too.
Will you look at that belly! I keep saying that she’s a chunker and I mean it!
We took Juliet for her 2 week appointment on Thursday. Dr. Pope says she’s perfect!
Her stats were:
7lbs, 7oz (up 13oz from birth…she’s a good eater!)
14″ noggin
19.5″
You’re probably seeing the 19.5″ and thinking, wow, that was her length at birth. So, we think they were VERY generous at birth on her length. The nurse stretched her out well on Thursday and she is indeed 19.5″ so she was likely 18 or so inches when she was born.
Juliet appears to be our chunky baby, she LOVES to eat. We weighed her again this evening before we started our last nursing session and she’s weighing in at exactly 8 pounds! Yes, she put on 9oz in the last 3 days…I told you that she’s a chunk!
I have a feeling her pediatrician is going to tell us to cut down our nursing sessions at her 2 month appointment since she’s putting on so much weight so quickly. I love the chubbiness, she’s filling in all of her extra skin and then some. She’s squishy and smushy and I love it!
In other news, her cord fell off tonight! YAY! It took Amelia’s FOREVER to fall off and Juliet’s only took two weeks and 3 days. Tomorrow she’ll get her first full bath where she can soak and relax in the tub. We’ll post pictures of her first bath and if her hair cooperates hopefully I’ll get a mohawk going.
Juliet is 12 days old already, where has the time gone?
She’s a delightful little girl. Seriously the most smiley little baby I’ve ever met. I know they’re gas/sleepy smiles, but I like to pretend that she’s smiling for me…just like I did with Amelia.
Miss Juliet is an incredible eater. She left the hospital at 6lbs 4 oz and she passed her birth weight at only 4 days old weighing in at 6lbs 12oz. We weighed her at a week and she was already 7lbs 5oz. We might just have a little chunk on our hands after all!
She’s gotten so big and so strong already, but she’s still just as sweet and snuggly as the day I had her. Here’s my little smiley girl.
Yep, I’m sure it’s hard to believe, but I changed our Wordpress theme after a zillion years with the old one. Yay! The old one was boring, too mature and too dark. Since we have two girls now I though I’d throw some extra girly out in the world in the form of our blog.
Enjoy!
I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I just had to share this one….
Amelia was laying in bed with me last night and lifted my shirt to look at my belly. She got used to doing it each night while I was pregnant to feel the baby so it’s not unusual. Here’s how our conversation went…
Amelia said to me “Mommy, what are those?”(pointing at my belly)
I responded “Those are stretch marks.”
And Amelia proclaimed “I don’t want those on you!”
To which I responded “I don’t want them either!”
Silly girl gave me all of my lovely tummy stretch marks (ok, poison ivy swelling at 32 weeks did) and there’s nothing I can do about them other than pray that I never get more. Thankfully I didn’t get ANY with Juliet, yay!
Maybe some day there will be a magic eraser for them.
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
Yep, I’m going all cliche and quoting Romeo and Juliet…because I’m her mommy and I can!
We’ve been asked a zillion times how we came up with her names and well, I thought it would be nice to share.
I did a mini newborn session with Juliet on Thursday and wanted to share a few images from it. We’re hoping to do another at some point this week and include Amelia. Juliet was the EASIEST newborn I’ve ever photographed. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d say that about my own child, but it’s true. Let’s hope that she’s just as easy for round 2.
I have finally finished a few of the outstanding details in Amelia’s room and took pictures of the transformation.
Here are the before pictures…just after cleaning out the room. Yep, nice boring shade of builder beige like the rest of the house.
And here are the after pictures. Amelia told us she wanted purple and that’s what she got!
