Easter Sunday

We spent Easter Sunday at my parents house, the whole day! We went to church in the morning with Nana and Grandpa. We then had my mom's side of the family over for lunch and Adelyn got to meet her cousin, Issac (not sure on the exact relation but Issac's mom and I are cousins). Issac was born on January 28 and Adelyn is February 2, needless to say they are close in age! Issac is 2lbs more than A and they are about the same height...attached are some pictures of the two of them. It was fun comparing the two of them. They look kinda similar too!




At night we had my dad's family over for dinner. It was really nice seeing them again too. A couple of them we haven't seen since Adelyn was born, so they were excited to see how big she had gotten! The night wouldn't have been complete without a meltdown from Adelyn-sensory overload :)

This is my dad's Uncle Jim, my great Uncle and A's great, great Uncle...wow!

2 Month Pictures

Adelyn's 2 month pictures:

Our little Easter bunny :)

Adelyn's 2 month checkup

2 month checkup:
weight: 12lbs, 75th-90th percentile
height: 23inches, 75th percentile
head: 90th percentile

Adelyn's checkup went well!!! The doctor was very happy with how she is growing and she was also very impressed with Adelyn's ability to hold her head up :) She gave me the green light to start cereal a little before her 4 month checkup or I can wait until after...we'll see how it goes! She had to get 4 shots, 1 was orally. The pokes in the legs did not go over so well...she screamed one of those screams that they don't breathe and then scream, pretty sure it was heartbreaking. She then proceeded to sleep for 4 hours and was really crabby the rest of the night. They had told me to give her a bath at night and then massage where the injections were....HAHAHA...thats a great idea, if you want to start the whole screaming process again. Needless to say, we stopped that soon after we started.

2 Months...Crazy!

Adelyn is 2 months today!! I find that super crazy and slightly amazing that time has gone so fast. She can now smile like crazy...big gummy ones, it's so rewarding! She loves to take walks- when its warm, ride in the car, sit in her swing, cuddle with Mommy and Daddy and sleep...oh and did I mention eat? She does that very well! She is an extremally happy baby, she turned that corner when she was 7 weeks old after about 4 weeks of fussy baby-and by fussy she was crabby for 1-2 hours at night total. We are working on a schedule. She is now going to bed around 8 and sleeping for at least 6 hours, I had it two days in a row where she slept 8!! Yay...that means that I get 8 hours of sleep too =) She likes to wake up around 6, eat, go back to sleep for a little while, she'll wake up around 8 to "hang out," then she eats at 9 and takes a long morning nap-usually 2.5-3hours. After her hap she'll eat again, be up for about an hour and then we usually take an hour to 1.5 hour nap together. When Eric gets home is her long awake period and she usually stays awake, maybe a short catnap or two, for 3 hours, then off to bed! Her bedtime routine includes a bath, nursing, a song and rocking...we are working on less rocking and more going to sleep by ourself and it is actually working quite well :)
We have a doctors appt tomorrow and I am not to thrilled about it. She has to get all her shots...boo...and it won't be fun. I will post her stats tomorrow!

These are her 1 month pictures...we just did her 2 month ones yesterday. When I get those I'll be sure to post!

Mommy thinks I look like Daddy in this picture :)

North Carolina

North Carolina was great! We had a lot of fun visiting Josh and seeing the base. The trip down there was awesome, Adelyn only cried at the end when we were trying to make it to the base before I had to nurse her again...it didn't work. We stayed on the base in a room for $25 a night and yes it wasn't the greatest. It was clean so I guess that's all that matters. Josh is doing really well. We found out that he wasn't exaggerating when he said that the nearest town was 20-30 minutes away...its true you can either go to Morehead or New Bern and if you want to go somewhere were there are more than 2 choices for restaurants you have to drive an hour to get there. They really are out in the middle of no where. Thursday night when we got there Josh didn't have to go into work, so we got there unpacked, ordered pizza and visited with Josh for a little bit before going to bed. Friday Josh came over around 11 and we went to the mall and out to lunch. He had to work that night so we just hung out in our "barracks." (Our room really was an old barrack) Saturday we went to the beach, Rachel just had to go even though it was only 50) and we went into Green___ for dinner (I don't remember the exact name). We made the mistake of choosing BW3's. It was March Madness so yes I was the mom with a baby in the extremely loud bar...we ended up getting our food to go and eating it in the car. Adelyn decided she wanted to have a melt down and proceeded to cry for an hour straight, in the car. Sunday we hung out with Josh some more, we went to a "flea market," it really was a garage sale for the hillbilly's...a ton of junk and nothing worthwhile. Monday was our last day there and we went out to lunch with Josh and spent our last hour back in the room. He left for work, we took a nap and then headed for home around 7pm. We arrived home at 1:30pm on Tuesday and had another uneventful car ride home :)

Josh took me for a ride on his bike...it was really fun but super scary...sitting on the back of a piece of plastic isn't exactly comforting.

Adelyn's new trick :)

The siblings and the niece :)

Adelyn had to take a bath in the sink...there was no other option. She didn't mind!

Josh meeting Adelyn for the first time! He's pretty proud =)

As for the amount of clothing we used it was probably 1/2 to 3/4 of what I brought. She only pooped/peed through her clothes twice, which might be a record! I never got peed/pooped on once for the trip. She must have known we weren't at home and if she had peed/pooped it would have either gotten all over the car or my bed. What a good kid!