2 Week Check-up

We took Adelia to her 2 week check up today. She's doing great. She now weighs 8 pounds 12 ounces and is 21 inches long. Good for her. The doc said everything looks great. She is in the 75th percentile for everything, which makes her my least monstrous baby so far. :) Both my boys were always in the high 90s until they got a little older. He also said there is a pretty bad cold bug going around right now and to stay home for the next month or so...we'll see if I survive that. We already decided it was a bad idea to take her to church until Septemberish. But I'm not a big fan of being stuck at home, especially now that my body is starting to feel recuperated enough to want to do things.

Today they also had to do the other half of Adelia's PKU test. They poked her heal. She screamed bloody  murder. I was glad Aaron came with, so he could go back with her when they poked her. I hate that part, so I opted to sit in the waiting room with the wild indians and try to keep them contained.

So far things around here are going well. Life with three kids isn't so terribly awuful or stressful...yet. We'll see when Adelia is awake more during the daytime, or when I actually try to go anywhere by myself. :) I have taken the three of them to Costco by myself and the four of us have walked to the park a block north of our house. I consider that a pretty decent success. But we'll see how it goes as time goes on.

We are getting some sleep, which is good. About every third night or so Adelia will give us a 5 or 6 hour stretch of sleep, and that is a beautiful thing. The other nights she's up about every hour and a half or so, with one 3 hour stretch thrown in somewhere, usually toward the earlier hours of the morning. It wouldn't be too bad, but the boys are always up at 7:30am without fail. But it could be worse, so I'm not going to complain. In fact the last three nights in a row we've gotten 5 hour stretches, from about 1:30am-6:00am or so. But knock on wood for that one.

Adelia's two big brothers love her...in their own special ways. They like to hand her lots of toys, pile them on top of her in fact, and touch her head, and poke her eyes (Ivan), and try to feed her real people food (Lincoln), and they are always very concerned when she starts crying. Lincoln came running to my side the other day and said, "Mom, what's wrong with Delia's foot?" So I went to look, and her foot was peeling, so I said oh, nothing's wrong her foot is just peeling. Then Linc turned to Adelia and said, "It's ok Delia, it's just peeling, it won't hurt you or make you cry." I had to laugh.

So ya, we've survived two whole weeks on our own. Aaron's mom is coming to visit for two weeks on Thursday, and it will be nice to have her here helping and keeping me company, since Aaron's school starts again in 10 or so days.