Two months sleeping along Brynn McStretch Bauman

I finally got most of the little bit of Christmas I had out put away. This included Neela's Christmas outfit that I don't think I posted a picture of. We officially called her "Santa Paws" this year and my niece and nephews had a lot of fun with her on the holiday.

See...it's only been a day and a half since I posted...I'm doing much better with my resolution for posting more often already, LOL! I'm just trying to do better at catching up with every one's blogs and that seems to be the challenge. But slow but steady wins the race, right? Thank you so much for your help with my couple of questions from my previous post. You ladies are simply the best and deserve and award I swear!

Brynn had her two month appointment - she'll be 9 weeks tomorrow holy cow! All in all it went great. She got a couple of shots and drank the other oral vaccine. Of course sappy old mom me got teary eyed....yeah I know I'm pathetic. She's almost 7 pounds measuring in the 5th percentile adjusted. I guess around a year is when they stop adjusting. But the crazy thing is that she grew almost 4 inches in one month! She is one long skinny baby. The pediatrician measured her twice just because she thought it was crazy that she grew length wise so much in one short month while still being under the 7 pound mark. She proclaimed her Brynn McStretch Bauman, so for now that will be her nickname. Basketball anyone? Or perhaps a she'll be up for a riveting game of volleyball around the 3 month mark?

No wonder she's been sleeping better lately. That's one heck of a lot of growing. When I tried to get her some tummy time the other day she fell asleep. I plopped her on her back and she did the same :-)
My husband has fallen in love with the front carrier now that she is getting big enough to use it. Technically I'm a bad mom and I put her in it a little early (weight wise), but we watch her while she's in it and Brynn loves it. I think my husband loves it because it allows him to talk on the phone with work, play XBox 360 and watch the baby all at the same time. Now that's for some multitasking. Last night I had to giggle because he was on a conference call with China around 10PM and had Brynn in the carrier. I think her head was close enough to the phone to hear the different pitches and tones of the Chinese man he was speaking with that she turned her head and her eyes got really wide like "what the heck is that?"


We're still doing the frequent feedings every hour and a half or so since Brynn's been doing so good with her weight gain on that schedule. My husband is a saint and gives me a break at night when he gets home from work. My only job in the evening is to be a milk machine and pump away so we have a good stash in the fridge. I take the middle part of the night so he gets a few hours of uninterrupted Brynn free time to sleep upstairs. And he takes the late evening until midnight and then resumes the early morning around 4:30 or 5 AM. It seems to be working well. Brynn is on her Zantac which seems to be helping her reflux along with her vitamins to help with her malabsorption. Thank heavens for Comcast DVR which allows me to tape all of my favorite daytime shows so I have something decent to watch between 12 and 5 AM while feeding Brynn and holding her up for her mandatory 30-45 minutes afterwards :-)

Tonight we're supposed to get about 10 inches more of snow so I think we'll wake up to a white morning! I might try to sneak out and grab some groceries from Kroger when my husband gets home so we don't have to worry about it for tomorrow. I think I'll finish the second half of the bachelor I have taped as well tonight in the middle of the night when Brynn is partying like a rock star at 3AM. This season's bachelor is kind of cute...what does everyone else think? I missed the last few seasons but I might just have to watch this one until the next season of Big Brother comes out to produce my next TV eye candy...Yes Candi...I'm talking about your love as well!

I hope everyone has a great weekend. Next weekend my mother in law is having a small shower for us in Ohio with my husband's side of the family. The work girls have taken care of a shower for us as well. It's kind of fun having showers after the fact since I wasn't able to have them before Brynn was born. I'm just so grateful for everyone's generosity. Brynn has even gotten a gift from her extended family in Australia. I'll have to take a photo of her in her outfits from people and gifts and post. You have simply been the best. To say I feel blessed and fortunate would be an understatement. I just wish there was more I could do for each of you!