So it turns out that I am a terrible blogger now that the child has arrived. It’s been 2 months since my last post and I have no other excuse aside from the fact that Elzie takes up every waking (and sleeping) moment of my life. It’s only on Sundays that I find any sort of reprieve when I drop Elzie off at my parents house for the day. They have been such wonderful grandparents over the past couple of months taking her so I can find a few moments to myself.

This past Sunday, March 29th, was my 30th bday and Jon organized a fabulous little family surprise party for me at my parent’s house. There were presents, amazing food, cake, and a sick baby As luck would have it, Elzie got her first cold on my birthday. She was sneezing, coughing, and over all just out of it. I felt so bad for the little girl. She was so brave though. She really only got upset when she coughed because I think it was hurting her throat. She has since gotten much better. We took her swimming yesterday for the first time and that seemed to do the trick. The pool was nice and warm and the area was steamy so all of her nasal passages got cleared out. Today she slept in nice and late and all afternoon she was back to her old self again.

Here are a few videos from my bday. Once you have a child even your bday is an excuse to get them gifts. Jon’s mom got Elzie this adorable hopping, singing bunny. It is amazing to watch her interact with it. Right now she just wants to make out with it, but I can only imagine that as she gets older she will want to dance and sing with it too!

Here are a couple more from my bday extravaganza!

I wanted to post a few stats about the little nugget from her 4 month peds visit.
Height: 24.5″
Weight: 13lbs
Head Circ: 16″
Cuteness: 100%
She is in the 25th percentile for weight and 50th for height. Not that I care at all about percentiles, but I figured I would post them so I can look back one of these days and marvel at how small she once was.

While at this visit, it was suggested that we start Elzie on some rice cereal. I had hoped to wait until 6 months to introduce anything other than breast milk, but I decided to give it a try. I went to whole foods and got some organic rice cereal and it turns out that this little girl can’t get enough of the stuff. Here is a video of her eating. It’s the cutest thing!

Below are various videos from the past couple of months. It’s MEGA POST TIME!!!

4 month update:

Elzie Sits Up!

Little Elzie Giggles!

Here are some pics from our recent adventures as well. I am posting a gallery because it is SIGNIFICANTLY easier. That is part of the reason I am so slow in posting, it takes for ever to upload individual pics. The downside to gallery, as you will see, is it just gives you little thumbnails of each pic. You have to click them to get the full image. With all that said, I have promised myself that I will post at least every other Wednesday from here on out. We will see if I can stick with that! ENJOY!!

Posted on April 2nd, 2009 at 1:45 AM by BabyMama in Uncategorized