Very excited.

So I checked the mail today and this is what I found:


Season 1 box set! This is one of those randomly wonderful shows that I have come across in the middle of the night while nursing Elea. Gwen is pretty amazing at picking out gifts and ordered it for me for my birthday.

What's even more exciting is that when I looked up the picture I saw that there are 5 seasons! I had no idea. Very thrilled.

Thanks Gwen!

Random pictures.

I keep forgetting to post/take pictures of Elea when her hair is wet and not poofed all crazy. We have about 15 seconds before it dries all crazy.

I don't know why I am surprised, but Jeff can get her smiling better than anyone.

Thomas used to always wear his hair like this for his Volleyball games. This was our first trip to the grocery store with Elea (mid august)-- I came out to the living room and Jeff had her all strapped in and ready to go-- headband and everything. I busted up laughing-- she looks like a tennis player from the 80's with her sweatband, I mean headband, like that.

how to pronounce her name . . .

I've been meaning to post about this since before Elea was born. But then I didn't really think it was necessary-- but I guess it is. As a mom, any version of her name is okay, I will leave it up to her to like or dislike different nicknames or pronunciations.

SO:
eh-lee-uh.

or.

uh-lee-uh.

Either one works. Or just call her L, or L-E, or leah. We aren't picky.

2 month check up

Elea had her 2 month check up on Monday. The doc said everything looked good. We're still keeping an eye on her cross eyed tendencies. . . She has 4 months to grow out of it before I get to be worried! She weighed 11 lbs 11 oz. so her weight gain has slowed down a bit, believe it or not. She measured 21.75 inches long, so she has grown 2 inches in 2 months, that is insane to me. Even though she is growing in length, her percentiles don't show it.

Height- 25th percentile
Weight-75th percentile
Head Circumference- 45th percentile

So she doesn't have a big ol' head like we originally thought she might-- even though her 2 inch fro may make it look otherwise! We've come to the conclusion that she is built like her dad-- long body, short legs. As ang put it, "built like Jeff with a feminine flair." Let's hope there's a lot of feminine flair kickin' in- I don't think there is a big & tall store for toddlers!

Also, she got her first round of immunizations. Since she doesn't have any other siblings, Elea isn't used to anyone manhandling her at all. Actually, besides family and friends, no one ever touches her-- I have people stopping me all the time at the store, commenting about her, but no one reaches out to pinch her cheeks or grab her feet or anything like that (thank goodness because I don't know that I would react too kindly . . .). So anyway, when the nurse pinched her thigh to give her the first shot she start to scream/cry. It was her ticked off cry more than her pain cry-- and she kept crying for about 30 more seconds for the other 2 shots. After the nurse was finished it only took about 10 seconds for her to stop crying. I felt so bad. Part of me worries about the whole Autism-immunizations link and wonders if it's worth it. . . but if she did get sick and it could have been prevented I would feel horrible.

The rest of the day Monday she did pretty good-- she slept a lot and was sort of ornery, and if you accidentally touched her leg where the shots were she would get pretty mad. Tuesday she did pretty good too-- I was holding her most of the day while I finished the Twilight series-- but that's a post for another time.

Happy Birthday to Us

Today was Jeff & my birthday. He turned 27 and I turned 25.

There are some great things about having the same birthday-- if you forget it's their birthday then you get off the hook really easily because that means you've forgotten it's your birthday too. I baked him a German chocolate cake last night and felt pretty dang proud of myself and pathetic at the same time because it is the first birthday cake I've baked for him since we've been married. Having the EXACT same birthday causes this weird canceling out phenomenon. We don't really celebrate either of our birthdays. Or maybe it's just that we're getting old(er) and growing out of the thrill of the "birthday."

Last year I was in Arizona and he was in Utah on our birthday so I worked and he went to school to celebrate our birthdays. This year he had an away game in American Fork (they won 56-8 or something ridiculous like that) so he was gone all day. However, Elea was a little darling today and slept pretty good and I hung out with Gwen in St. George for a few hours. That combined with listening to the book Twilight by Stephanie Meyer on CD pretty much made my day.

Anyway, yay for being 25. And 27.

my favorite part of the day

In the mornings when Elea wakes up she is happy. Obviously, she takes after her father because he wakes up happy every day too. This morning I was finally able to get my camera in time to catch some of her smiles because she quickly loses patience and wants to eat. NOW.

It looks really dark but that's just my camera. . . she's been sleeping in until 8 am and it is pretty fantastic. :)

success!

I have been trying to get Elea to sleep in her crib during the day for naps. I think I have mentioned this once or twice before. Still struggling. Anyway, today I finally started to have the guts to just let her cry it out-- for a few minutes at least.

Just barely, I laid her down in her crib under her mobile. Lori got her one of those half-stuffed-animal-half-blankie things and we've been using it to help keep her binkie in & she likes the soft feeling of it too. So after I laid her down I started to clean up the havoc I had managed to wreak on the entire house today.

And it was quiet.

And then it was still quiet.

So I went to check on her and this is what I found:


She was asleep. Still sucking on her binkie though-- I could hear it. Just so you don't think I am a horrible parent, I did move the blanket part off her face.

And she woke up about 30 seconds later.