Latest stats

I know what I meant to include in the last post and forgot - Piper's latest stats! She had her two month check up last Thursday (Sept 10), where she weighed in at 11 pounds 8 ounces and measured 24 inches long. She's probably bigger now (her thighs look bigger to me today), and as for how she compares to other little ones, our little peanut is 93 percentile for height and 70 percentile for weight. While she's chunking up nicely, her length is quickly putting her into 6 month clothes (the ones with feet anyway), unless we want to do some Chinese torture on her and curl up her feet. She started wearing the 6 month sleepers yesterday, and while the sleeves are a little long, the legs and feet are just right. She's growing too quickly!

Also at her 2 month check up, she had her first round of vaccines. In full disclosure, I used to do PR for one of the world's largest vaccine manufacturers, so the thought of vaccinating Piper didn't freak me out at all. I felt like a well-informed consumer and honestly was happy to know that she was on her way to being immune to some pretty nasty viruses, but what I wasn't prepared for was the mother response to watching your little one get vaccinated. The crying definitely tore at my heart strings, as it did to her dad too who wouldn't put her in the car seat afterwards to go home until she was fully content (AKA sleeping soundly). I brought home the snuggliest little baby ... all she wanted to do was be up on my shoulder, nuzzling into my neck, but then the pain must have set in because she became super fussy about 45 minutes after we got home. A little Tylenol, a 30 minute nap, and we had our happy baby back. She did have two green bowel movements later that day - and when I say green, I mean the color you would find a lawn in Seattle to be in March. Pretty as grass, but concerning when it's poop. A quick call to the nurse on call that night put our mind at ease ... it was just the rotavirus (a nasty GI issue) vaccine and she would be fine soon. Sure enough, the next poop was back to normal.

Enough about poop - it's Friday! That means we have Reid home with us all weekend starting in not too long :-) Love it!!