lydia: 20 months

Lydia was 20 months on July 21st. We were about to leave for vacation so those days were a little busy. Then we went on vacation and those days were busy as well. Now that we're back and settled I thought I'd finally do her post.

Lydia is growing up so fast. Patrick or I comment at least once a day about how big she is getting. I was watching a video of her as a 2 month old earlier to compare her with Kesid and I could hardly believe that was the same Lydia.

She is a ham. This girl loves to smile and make funny faces. She also is great at mimicking. If we dance- she'll dance and if we make a face- she'll make a face and (probably one of my favorites) if we raise our eyebrows she'll squint her eyes trying to do the same.

Her vocabulary is growing everyday. She is saying more things in somewhat sentence form. I'm excited to see how much she learns in the next 4 months (CRAZY!! In four months our sweet girl will be 2 years old).

She LOVES to watch do re mi from the Sound of Music on youtube. It's usually the first thing she asks for in the mornings. She sings along which is also pretty adorable. Lydia has a raspy, almost hoarse sounding voice and it's just so cute and she sings DO DO DO.

I don't know her height or weight but she's a good sized girl. She is still a good eater but has become more picky. She is cutting her canines still. One has finally broken the skin. I'm ready to be done with these teeth!!

Last night was her first night sleeping in a big girl bed! We are so proud of her. She did pretty well. She woke up 4-5 times and came into our room. The first time she had pooped so that one is excused...the others we'll work on! I just laid her down for her first nap in the toddler bed. I laid her down, read a book, sang her normal night time song (the doxology) and told her not to get up but to go to sleep. She didn't get up! We'll see how long she naps though :)

Doing all this big girl stuff makes me want to potty train her. Maybe in September I'll start trying.

We are still right in the middle of discipline city. I think she has improved a little on obeying when we ask her to come or stop something. There is still tons of room for improvement but I'm thankful for the progress we've made. Praying that the Lord would give her a heart that is able to obey!

Happy 20 months sweet big sister!

moo day

Friday was cow appreciation day at chic fil a. Dress your family up as cows and get free delicious food? Yes please!!

I took a stained onesie of lydia's and drew on spots with a permanent marker. I used a starter kit that CFA provided for Patrick and I and taped black spots onto our white shirts. I put ears of headbands for Lydia and I (Lydia wasn't interested in wearing it) and Patrick had a hat with ears. Kesid's outfit was one that my aunt gave me when Lydia was born...it was perfect.  Patrick was a champ as this was not as exciting to him as it was to me.

 I told Lydia she was a cow and she walked around mooing for a while. HA

A meal that would have been close to $15 was free all because we dressed up like cows :) we also got to see lots of people we knew there.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks Chic Fil A!!!

some favs

Thought I'd do a post of some of my favorite pictures from the last few weeks.

Here we are about a week after she was born.

Meeting Uncle Matt for the first time

Visiting with grandma

doing some painting

first Sunday going to church...matchy matchy :)

Mimi comes to visit

this is when her eyes were still gunky

love these with my girls

Sweet cousins

Meeting Uncle John and Aunt Brooke for the first time

Love her sitting there sucking her thumb and playing with her belly button...

Father's Day... It's hard to hold all these girls

I think this is 3 weeks

Love this one!! I love her outift

found her thumb!

meeting her cousin for the first time

kesid: 1 month

What a sweet month it has been getting to know the little one who I so badly wanted out of my belly. She is just about all you could ask for in a baby. She sleeps well and is a champ at eating. She is generally very content when she is awake unless she is working out a poo... She is a lot like her big sister as far as temperament goes. We praise the Lord for all of this!!  (the little dress (that looks like a shirt because she is so long) was mine as a baby)

She still has a ton of hair and her eyes have just started (at 5 1/2 weeks) to look more brown than grey/blue. She hasn't really started cooing or smiling yet...still eagerlysid for those :)

We went to the doctor for her one month check up at 5 weeks and I was surprised to see that she already weighs 10 lbs 3 oz (75th %tile) and is 22 1/2 in long (90th %tile). I wasn't as surprised about the length because she was busting out of newborn sleepers in the toes..

She eats about every 2 1/2 hours and is usually awake for close to an hour after a feeding and then sleeps until she eats again. At night I have been feeding her at 10:30 and she's been waking up around 3:30 am and then again at 7:30. Last night (5 1/2 weeks old) she slept from 10:30 to 5:40... I woke up and was shocked to see the time. I no longer set an alarm to wake up and feed her...just wake up when she starts grunting and getting fussy. I am thankful that she has for the most part just gone right back to sleep after every night time feeding. 

She has met a lot of people this month but one very special person was her great grandmother (Nanny). I am so thankful that my Nanny is able to be around my girls. What a gift she is! 

When Kesid cries she looks a lot like her big sister. I feel mean saying this but that face was my favorite with Lydia... she just looked so cute when she cried. 

I love the way Kesid sleeps all sprawled out. She doesn't like to be swaddled (much diff from Lydia). 

At around 10 days Kesid got a clogged tear duct that turned into an eye infection. That then spread to both eyes. When we went to the doctor about her eyes we found out she had thrush. We got medicine to treat both things... the eyes cleared up after about a week of medicine and lots of massaging her eye with a warm wash cloth. I felt so bad for her because at the beginning it would be so bad that she couldn't even open her eye until I cleaned the crustiness off. The thrush was a little more stubborn... the dr gave us a nystatin suspension for me to rub on her tongue. After 2 weeks of that and it still sticking around they put me on diflucan? for a week. I finally think it's gone after 3 weeks or so of treatment. Both of these were not fun to deal with but overall they are very minor things. We are thankful for her health!

After her umbilical cord fell off I noticed  that her belly button kind of bulges out...come to find out its a herniated belly button. We are not worried about it as these are common in new borns. Hopefully this will correct itself as she gets older and her stomach muscles develop and strengthen.

We praise the Lord for our sweet Kesid! Happy 1 month little one!!