14 Weeks 2/23/11

McKenzie had a GREAT first week of daycare!  She loves all her teachers and new friends!  She experienced her first fire drill this week too. Mommy caught a peek of her while she was outside with her class and saw that McKenzie slept right through the whole thing!!

Mommy and McKenzie are enjoying a nice week off together...but it's back to daycare and work next week!  We were so lucky to have Daddy home on Monday :-)  We took advantage of the day and got a couple 3 month portraits taken!

McKenzie is getting so much better with the pacifer and will use it to help her fall asleep.  I hope it will soon help her fall asleep all on her own!!

When I took McKenzie to the doctor's last week because she decided to stop eating, she weighed in at 13lbs 6 ounces!

Next week McKenzie will be baptized!  We are very excited for this special day :-)!

Diapers: Size 2 (size 3 overnights at night)
Clothes: 3-6
Sleeping: approx 8pm-8am with a feeding between 230-330am

Feeding: 4-6 ounces every 3.5-4 hours.  Almost back to where she was before the formula switch!
Formula: Enfamil Nutramigen

13 Weeks Old 2/16/11

13 Weeks Old!

Our little girl is 13 weeks old today and tomorrow she will officially be THREE MONTHS OLD!  We can't believe how much she has grown in the last three months.  Mommy is back to work, McKenzie is going to daycare and we are all settling in to our new life as a familiy of 3!

Here are some highlights this week:

• McKenzie is 13 lbs and 6 ounces...78%ile!
• McKenzie's battle with formulas continues and we have now been switched to Nutramigen formula, which is just about the most expensive formula you can get!!  After switching to Soy, McKenzie stopped eating well.  She was only taking about 1/2 of what she normally does.  We are crossing our fingers that this formula will be the answer to all the issues!
• McKenzie started daycare today and we love it!  We were greeted with lots of smiles and when I went to check on her she was fast asleep in one of the teachers arms.  They even got her to eat more than I could!! Yay!
• McKenzie is so close to laughing...it's so funny! She opens her mouth so wide and makes a little squeak.
• Oh...and little miss is back to eating during the night again....
  
  
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Diapers: Size 2 (size 3 overnights at night)


Clothes: 3-6

Sleeping: approx 9pm-8am with a feeding between 3-4am
Feeding: who knows right now...lucky if I can get her to take 3 ounces
Formula: Enfamil Nutramigen



12 Weeks Old! February 9, 2011

12 Weeks Old!!

One week from today our first born will start daycare.  It's definitely a mix of emotions!  Not only will McKenzie start school...Mommy will be going back to work!

Here are some highlights from the past week:

• McKenzie is starting to bust out of her diapers and clothes...another indicator of how fast she is growing!  Mommy has been busy washing and hanging all her 3-6 month clothes and trying to use up the rest of the size 1 diapers.
• We've officially switched to Soy formula in hopes McKenzie's tummy troubles are resolved.
• McKenzie and Mommy are sick of being suck inside by the cold and snow.  We've kept ourselves busy by playing in the jumperoo, doing tummy time, and playing in the Bumbo!
• McKenzie loves to babble and coo.  She'll even wait her turn to talk when you talk with her!
• McKenzie loves when Daddy makes silly faces and makes up weird songs!
• McKenzie has discovered she has 2 hands and loves to hold them together.
• The last THREE nights McKenzie has slept 10-11 hours!  Usually 9pm-7am!!!

Diapers: Size 1 (size 3 overnights at night)

Clothes: 0-3

Sleeping: approx 9pm-7am, not napping much during the day.  4-5 30-40 minute naps

Feeding: 5-6 ounces every 3.5-4 hours

Formula: Enfamil Prosobee

11 Weeks Old 2/2/11

At 11 weeks old, I feel like every day brings something new that McKenzie can do!  It's so much fun to watch!

What's going on with McKenzie this week:

• She has started to coo and babble all the time.  It is so funny to listen to!
• We started swaddling her and the first night she slept 9.5 hours!!  She is still sleeping long stretches, but we haven't replicated that one night yet!
• She hasn't wanted to nap during the day anymore.  She takes 4-5 30 minute naps.  Good news is she has been taking the naps in our bedroom where she sleeps at night instead of in my arms or in the same room as me.
• She is still spitting up 6-7 times a day, but dfeinitely not as much or as violent as she used too.
• She is still dealing with lots of gas.  We are going through Mylicon like water!  We are going to try a new product, Colic Calm and see how that works.  If there is no improvement by next week her pediatrician wants to discuss switching to another formula, possibly soy.
• She loves to suck on her fists!  Along with that she loves to blow bubbles and she is drooling all the time!
• She is smiling more and more.  Big open mouth smiles...I can tell she is getting close to laughing.
• You can tell now what things make her smile and things that she enjoys.

Diapers: Size 1 (size 2 at night)

Clothes: 0-3 (3-6 sleepers sometimes)

Sleeping: approx 830pm-3am, napping every 90 minutes for 30 min

Feeding: 5-6 ounces every 3.5-4 hours

Formula: Enfamil Infant