4 month check up

We went for our four-month check up yesterday, and all is well! Carrie does have a touch of eczema, which is not fun, but it doesn't seem to be bothering her too much. She does have some pretty bad cradle cap from it, but the pediatrician gave us some stuff that should hopefully take care of it. No more sweet-smelling Johnson & Johnson lotion/bath soap for us either :( We have to use Aveeno products and then slather her with Aquaphor, which is a slimy lotion that is supposed to help treat the eczema and get it under control. Changing her diaper has a whole new dimension of difficulty now. Not only is she trying to wiggle away and roll around, but she's like a greased pig with that stuff on her!

Vital stats from this trip to the ped: 14lbs, 2 oz (YIKES!), 23.5 inches long. She's in the 75th percentile for weight and 25th percentile for height...ooops. We really do have a good eater on our hands :) We also got more vaccines yesterday which was more traumatic for me than Carrie. Oh she screamed alright, but I think I cried longer than she did!

We're attempting to get a family picture taken this weekend, so keep your fingers crossed. Last time we tried it took two hours, a bottle, and a walk around the mall and still we only ended up with spit-up all over me & Jerry. Wish us luck!

Getting bigger all the time!

Well, it's been awhile since I've posted, but things have been SO hectic!!! We spent July 4th with the Aponicks which was great. Amy's mom is one of the only people we've found that can get her to go to sleep without a bottle or me :)

After the 4th we went up to Okatie SC to visit Jerry's parents. They had a big party for everyone to come meet little Carrie when we got there, and everyone was excited to meet her. She had quite the big day and enjoyed meeting the Savannah group of folks. We spent the entire week up there, and Carrie had her very first trip to the beach! We played in the tide pools and ventured to the very edge of the ocean. I don't think she was too excited with the sand in her swimsuit, but we had a great time nonetheless!

The end of that week brought my annual Girls' Weekend. This year was a bit different for me, since I couldn't really spend the night since I have a nursing baby, but I did have the best of both worlds. I got to go over to the beach during the day to be with my girlfriends, (thanks go to Izzie & Jerry 4 for babysitting while I was out playing!) and come home to my baby at night. I have to admit it was a pretty sweet setup! Carrie got to meet all the girls on Sunday of Girls' Weekend so that was great. I can only hope she'll have a group of friends when she grows up like I have. We get together every year, and it's like we haven't been away from each other very long at all!

The next week after Okatie was VERY hard for me...it was the dreaded week of going back to work. I cannot begin to tell you how much I cried that first morning. It wasn't pretty at all. Thanks to Suzanne Elder who recommended to me that I bring my eye makeup with me! I shouldn't complain too much given that if I had to go back to work, I again have the best of both worlds. I work in the office Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, then at home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It's the perfect set-up, and I am so grateful to the folks that I work with for agreeing to let me do it this way. I've been back at work for 3 weeks now, and all seems to be going well. Carrie LOVES Hayley, which is great and makes me feel a lot better about leaving her during the day.

We did have to go to our first "sick baby" appointment last week. Carrie was spitting up more than usual, and was getting some distance on it as well, much to Jerry's chagrin (he HATES the spit-up; would much rather have poopy diapers all day long than one episode of spit-up). Turns out she's a "happy refluxer" meaning she has a touch of acid reflux, but it's not bothering her too bad and we don't need to address it with medicine. That was great news. The doc did say we needed to space out her feedings a bit though...she had been eating every 1.5-2 hours while I was on leave, then sleeping through the night. In doing that, she managed to go from the 50th percentile at 2 months to the 75th percentile at 3 months :) She was 13 pounds, 2 ounces last week! So now we're managing to go about 2.5 hours in between feedings (unless she knows I'm within a 5 mile radius, then all bets are off and it's closer to 2 hours).

I'm sure there will be another update soon. She goes for her 4 month checkup and shots August 14th...till then, take care everyone!