May

It is hard to think she was only 2 months old....

May was a month of growth. At 1 month old she weighed 10 lbs 6 oz and was 22 inches long. Starting off May, on her 2 month birthday, she weighed 12 lbs 12 oz and was 23 1/2 inches long. She had another doctor visit mid May because my doctor was a little worried that she was already going 6 hours at night. I, on the other hand, was very happy! Needless to say, right after that appointment she went back to doing 3-4 hour intervals. And mid May, she weighed 13 lb 13 oz, gaining a whole pound in two weeks. Doctors worry too much! When it comes to her weight, Elizabeth has no problem. Now lets get back to doing those 6-7 hour stretches at night, please!

Chris had a business trip to Brno (right outside Prague) and London for a week. I was very jealous. I miss Europe. It was very different here without him, but Elizabeth and I had some quality mother and daughter time. We went to Savannah's birthday. She was fussy the whole time, unfortunately. I was really hoping she would sleep, but it was one of those awake days where she wants to sleep but just can't. My mother and us went to my grandmother Joan's for Mothers Day. We had a nice visit with my aunts and uncles that were there as well. Yes, we spent Mother's Day apart, but we talked on the phone and he gave me a very pretty porcelain figurine from Harras of a girl holding a cat with another cat sitting at her feet looking up.

On the Thursday that Chris flew home, we picked him up at the airport and went straight to Tahoe for another weekend there. It was quite cold. We had a picnic out on the vista viewpoint overlooking Emerald Bay. It was a beautiful day. We went on a hike another day. There was a cold breeze on our hike coming over Falling Lake, but it was just amazing. Saturday night it was supposed to snow and Sunday snow only about 1 to 2 inches, but when we woke up on Sunday morning there was already about 6 inches of snow on the ground and it was coming down hard. By noon the snow slowed down and we took off back home. Unfortunately, there was an accident on the freeway by Donner Pass and so the cars were not moving. It took us 6 hours to get home. Elizabeth handled it fine, but we were tired. Need a vacation day after a vacation.

I started bringing Elizabeth to her great-grandmother Joan's for a visit every Tuesday afternoon. She loves her visits with her GG. And I know GG loves seeing her. We go for a walk around her neighborhood and play.

She started to hold her head up on her tummy. She doesn't like being on her stomach much, but she is getting used to it. She is losing her hair and has a bald spot on the back of her head from squirming. She has a birth mark in her bald spot just to help make it obvious. She also found her thumb. It goes back and forth between pacifier and finger knuckles and thumb when she finds it. It is like she is searching for that thumb she knows she has but she is holding her thumb under her other fingers. I have found she likes her pacifier when she wants to go to sleep but her fingers just for fun when she is awake.

We had fun putting her in her Canadian outfit one day. Loved the pics I got. She is enjoying her cousins as well.

And for the most amazing thing this month; on Monday, two weeks before she turned 3 months, she started drooling. By that Friday, I stuck my finger in her mouth and found two bottom teeth! A week before she turned 3 months!! I couldn't believe, nor others who I told (mom). She didn't seem cranky, lucky us.

The end of May, we went to Luke's 1st birthday. We had a great time visiting and seeing the other babies that were there. There was a row of ages with a 3 week old, a 3 month old, a 7 month old, and a 1 year old. It is amazing to see the developmental ages all in one room.

The next day we took off for Las Vegas for a week. That will be in my next blog.



Elizabeth Day 1, vs 1 1/2 months, vs 2 1/2 months