4 Months

 

Ashlynn recently turned 4 months old. At her appointment she weighed almost 12 pounds and is 23 inches. She is very dainty. She'll have 5 bottles a day but only eats 3-5oz depending on what time it is. Her reflux is much better. And her colic attitude is pretty much gone. She is a very different baby from the first 2 months of life. Recently she has started sleeping from 11pm to about 7am without waking and will normally go back to sleep with a binky. We tried giving her rice cereal and she hated it. After putting a bite in her mouth she would just scream and cry while it sat on her tongue. Now we just put a little into her last bottle at night, which seems to be helping her sleep longer as well.

She is very active and loves to roll around and move. She loves to lay on her playmat and try to grab the dangling toys. She'll smile at anyone that looks her at her and will occasionally laugh. Anytime she watches Cade play she'll laugh. He doesn't really pay too much attention to her. He'll tell me when she's crying and bring her a binky if she doesn't have one. And will shake a toy over her head when I have her laying on the floor. He asked to hold her for the first time when she was about 3 months old but hasn't asked since. But I think the older/more fun she gets to more interested in her Cade will get.

3 months old

Ashlynn turned 3 months last month. It was also the day of the first Utah football game, so I put her in her first Ute outfit. I think she looked adorable.

Swimming

A couple weeks ago I was making dinner and Cade came up to me saying his frog was stuck. I told him to show me where it was. He took me into the bathroom where I found this:

 He proceeded to tell me that his frog wanted to go swimming.

Cade is just getting more adorable by the day. Especially since he's talking more. Friday he was asking for dinner, which I told him we would eat once his show was done(it was still cooking in the oven). He walked up to the TV and turned it off and turned to me and said "All done!" Well played toddler, well played.

Baby Blessing

We blessed Ashlynn on August 5th. We did it in our ward. Brian did a wonderful job and she stayed calm and quiet the whole time. 

Brian's mom got this dress for Ashlynn in London(they were on a trip there when she was born). I love how long it is and it looked beautiful on her.



2 months old

The last 2 months with Ashlynn have been full of colic episodes and trying everything to get her to stop crying. We've learned a few tricks and she is getting better, she'll still have a crying episode every so often, but it's getting better each day. We went to the doctor for her check up and she weighs 9.5 lbs and is 20.8 inches tall.

Ashlynn Ellie

 Ashlynn came 10 days early on May 30th. She weighed 6 pounds and 7 ounces and 17.5inches
 (If you want to read the delivery story it's below the pictures)

My water broke at home on Tuesday night at about 11:15pm. Since Brian was at work I called my parents to take me to the hospital and stay with Cade. I had to have a test done to make sure that my water had actually broken. Once they had done the test and made sure she was facing head down they admitted me into labor and delivery. At around 3:30am I still wasn't having any contractions on my own so they started me on pitocin. That started working right away and I was having a contraction every 2-3 minutes. I had and epidural put in as soon as possible, about 45 minutes later(I do not have a very high pain threshold). Brian was still at work but I was checking in with him every hour or so. He got to the hospital at around 7am. I sent him to get some breakfast and while he was gone they checked me and found out it was time to start pushing. We were both really surprised that it was happening so fast since it took so much longer with Cade. They called my doctor who had just gotten to the clinic downstairs. She came right up to deliver our baby. We started pushing just after 8am and she was born at 8:20am. It only took 3 contractions and then she was here. It was completely opposite from Cade's delivery. I had the best epidural. It blocked the pain in all the right places and I had full control of my legs. It was heaven sent.

We have been home for a week now and are still adjusting to our new life. Each day gets a little better. Cade is doing great with her. He isn't too interested in holding her but will give her the occasional kiss. He loves to help throw away her diapers or bring me a binky or her bottle. I hope he keeps being so helpful.

Makes me smile