My 2 Week Well-Baby

I took Autumn in for her 2 week well check today. She was 7 pounds, 9 ounces at birth and 16 days later she is 8 pounds, 8 ounces. However, if you look at it since her last weight check (that Saturday when she was 7 pounds, 7 ounces being seen for her jaundice) then she's gained quite well. Over an ounce a day (1.25 ounces/day!). I always knew I made good milk. My babies grow pretty darn well when they're exclusively breastfed, it's once we introduce "baby food" at 6 months that they start falling off charts and such.

Autumn is 50th percentile for just about everything...height and weight, her head is currently 55th percentile. We had no concerns. Her cord is still on and after Dr. Groovy looked at it, it sounds like we've still got "a ways to go" before it falls off. Not sure what her and Dalton's deal is with holding on to their cords for so long. I'm ready to give her a real bath but oh well. She's growing up too quickly as it is. I know, she's only 2.5 weeks old but somehow because I want her babyhood to go the slowest as she's our last, it's actually going faster than it did with either boy. :(

However, she seems the most newborny of the kids too. Even at 7 weeks premature, Easton was always a superstar with the physical milestones. He wowed his nurses with his head and neck control when he was still in the incubator! He was rolling over purposefully before his due date! Dalton had decent head control too for being such a chunk. Autumn, however, is content to just lay around for now. So I gave her something pretty to look at:

Herself!

Dalton thought this was a fine idea...


Till she got a little drowsy and he went running to find her pacifier:


And plugged her up:


I forgot to mention that Tuesday afternoon--after Lauren left and after naps/Q.T. I actually took the 3 kids to the library:


It was good for the boys to get to socialize with other kids there for a bit...well except for the kid that pushed Dalton for no reason and his dad didn't do much except say, "Why did you push him? Go tell him you're sorry" and then not making him follow through or anything. Grrrr. But they had fun and got some new books. Easton is checking out this "Dinosaurs Unleashed" book that AJ told us about. It is a Christian account of the dinos.


On Wednesday (yesterday), Easton had school in the morning as I'd mentioned. This is when we came home from Wal-Mart to unload our groceries. Dalton is quite the handwasher. He spends a great deal of time on this which is actually very frustrating:


Then again, with a baby in the house we want him to be clean. Especially because he likes to get up in her face and say, "Hey cutie cutie cutie" which sounds more like "cootie" when he says it:




In the afternoon my guys helped me to make a chocolate chip pie for dessert:


Aunt Jess was coming over for dinner and she arrived while we were still assembling so she can attest that Dalton did this (arm around E) when the camera wasn't even out:


And little Autumn got a little box of goodies the other day from our friends Sheree and Gabby. This cute little strawberry outfit was in there:

She doesn't have a bow to match that outfit...we need to work on our hair accessory library.

And Dalton wanted to take a picture of me and Autumn before he headed up to bed:


Looking at that picture makes me realize even more how she just does not look like us yet. She's so dark!

But she still fits in just fine...here she is in D's bed listening to songs and stories at bedtime last night:


My cuties!