Football game #1

I don't remember if I've mentioned that Jeff is helping coach football at Cedar High this year. Tonight was the first game of the season. Cedar won 32-6 so that is good. My mom and I took Elea and were able to stay for about an hour-- not too bad I thought. She totally slept through the band and the cheering and everything for about a half hour but then she woke up and was hungry and the wind was blowing, etc.

I've decided to keep track of the number of hours I spend sitting on bleachers over the next 25 years. I am really horrible at actually watching what is happening on the field-- I spend most of my time people watching but as long as I'm there, I get wifey points for being supportive.

stupid stupid reflux

The past 2 weeks I/we've been struggling to get Elea on some sort of eating-sleeping schedule so that she will be used to falling asleep in her crib. I realized last week that if I didn't get her in the habit NOW then I would be in a world of hurt when my mom has to leave on the 25th.

We knew that she had gas/tummy issues but since she'd been held upright almost all day every day we didn't realize how bad. It's tricky because she doesn't spit up-- I can count the number of times she has spit up on one hand (of course my cousin Melanie stopped by and about 2 seconds after I told her not to worry about Elea spitting up-- she did).

I was trying everything-- I stacked about 30 books under one side of her mattress so that it is at a 45 degree angle, we finally bought a mobile, and I (we) spent hours by the side of her crib because she would just barely drift off and then she'd have a gas bubble trying to come up or her tummy would hurt and she would wake up with the super sad pain cry. So then we'd start all over and this pattern continues until by the time she FINALLY worked all that out and fell asleep for about 10 minutes, she'd wake up hungry because it was time to eat again. Anyway, after a week of feeling really sorry for the poor baby and feeling more and more exhausted, I made an appt. at the doctor this Tuesday.

Luckily, her pediatrician took my word for it about her reflux issues and gave us a prescription for baby Zantac. So far, so good. Last night I was up twice with her to nurse but was back in bed within an hour instead of 2. It was pretty fantastic. She is sleeping so much better-- it's great. The best part about sticking with the schedule last week is that now that she has the medicine she is falling asleep in her crib like a pro. :)

However, as far as reflux issues go, we are pretty lucky because she is still gaining weight. At a rapid pace. She weighed 10 lbs. 14 oz. and is already too big for most of her 0-3 months clothes. At this rate she's gonna be in 2T by her first birthday!

Elea's newborn photos (12 days old)

The little diva yelled/screamed her way through the entire photo session (until she was put on a padded fur rug).

Our little girl has 9 toes and 10 toenails . . . look at her 4th & pinky toe on her left foot.

Elea's Tutu Tantrum

Elea tutu tantrum
Originally uploaded by ksoliverson

I think she may already be a tomboy.

Hole in the Wall

Okay so I admit that my sense of humor is sort of twisted and not very consistent.

One of the funniest shows that I have seen lately is Wipeout. But really, the funny parts are in the first 20 minutes or so. I guess I am just rude and find people totally falling on their faces hilarious-- mostly because they sign up for it and know what they are getting themselves into. I was too much of a snob to ever purposefully watch it-- one night when Ang was visiting we were flipping channels and came across Wipeout. And then I laughed so hard that I had tears running down my cheeks and couldn't breathe.

However, I think a show coming on this fall may even out-do Wipeout. If you watched So You Think You Can Dance this week then you saw the commercials for it: Hole in the Wall. I cracked up every time the commercial came on-- and it was the same commercial every time. I guess it's another idea taken from a Japanese TV Show. I couldn't get the YouTube video to post on here-- so follow the link. So funny.

Hole in the Wall

Last Sunday Jeff attempted to do Elea's hair in a mohawk. It took about half a bottle of baby lotion and lasted about 10 minutes. And no, Jeff didn't paint his fingernail black to look hard core or something. He smashed it in a door a week or two before she was born and it is just gross now.

This cracked me up when Jeff came walking into the room and she had a death grip on his lip. By the time I got the camera she had let go a little. Jeff is too sweet to even make her let go.

If you look at the length of Jeff's hair in the first pictures compared to these ones it's just a little different. One was taken BEFORE he went to a coach's meeting, the other was taken AFTER the meeting. He asked one of the other coaches to shave his head for him-- on a level 3. But supposedly, after he had done the sides and back he went to do the top and all of a sudden the level 3 clip just fell off and he majorly nicked the top so they had to go back and shave it all really short. I still don't know if I believe his story, it seems just a little too convenient!

Elea really can open both eyes at the same time-- I just seem to capture pictures of her winking!

My dad came to visit with my mom and was able to stay for a couple weeks. It was fun to see him with my baby girl. He tried all the same tricks he used with me when I was fussy-- and they worked.Jeff thinks it's the cutest thing when she sleeps with one or both fists by her face.

She loves to sleep with her arms by her sides. At night I will hear her grunting and making all sorts of noise on the baby monitor so I go in to check on her. 9 times out of 10 she is still sleeping but struggling to get her arms by her side under the blanket.

Elea's 2 week check up

Elea's 2 week check up was last Monday. Luckily, but not on purpose, I forgot her PKU paperwork so I didn't have to be the one to hold her when they pricked her heel, we went back for that on Wednesday and Jeff held her.

Anyway, everything checked out fine, she was a little angel when the Doc checked her out. She weighed 9 lbs. and measured the same in length as she did when she was born, aka, she is growing out more than up.