Two Months Old

It's crazy how fast things can change over 2 months. Taylor is now sleeping through the night. Like 12 hours between feedings, the wonderful child. The first few times I thought it was just lucky but at about 2 months she started to do it regularly. It has been wonderful.

She is also starting to smile at just about anything. She loves to be sung to and will let out a few short laughs. She made her first trip to Idaho the week before Thanksgiving and did wonderful.

At her two month appointment she weighed 11 lbs 3 oz (5oth percentile) and was 23.5 inches long (90th percentile). She still continues to be a fabulous eater and takes a bottle wonderfully. I went back to work at 8 weeks and have been adjusting to that. I have decided to work 2 ten hours days and then a few days from home. I think it will work out nicely for us. We are also having someone come to our house to tend the kids on those days which is nice. Hopefully we can avoid getting Taylor sick during this RSV season.

Here are just a few pictures (ok a lot) of pictures of Taylor over the last months.

These are from a photo shoot at home when she was about 2 months old. Trying to catch a smile. Got a full body one. Thrilled to be putting up the xmas tree.

Love this hat. Our sleeping cutie at 1 month old.

Big Brother is very interesting.

With my mommy!

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Happy Halloween

Due to our Hawaii trip, last year we never made it over to our local pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins. This year, although we just had a little one, we decided to make a trip over to pick out our pumpkins. Logan loved walking around the pumpkin patch and decided that he wanted a little pumpkin. He also enjoyed running through a maze that they had. Once we had our pumpkins we got together with some neighbors to take on pumpkin carving. I always somewhat dread this task but am always glad that we do it. We kept it pretty simple this year and only carved two pumpkins. I carved the happy traditional pumpkin and Ben carved the other one. Logan was very interested to see what was inside the pumpkins but when he saw it was slimy seeds he bailed and went and played with his friend and let his daddy finish the yucky job. Taylor spent the whole night in the swing. Even though we put forth the effort to carve our pumpkins this year we still forgot on Halloween night to put a candel in them. Oops.
On Halloween night, we invited my parents and sister and her husband over for some dinner, cookie making and trick or treating. Logan told us this year that he wanted to be an elephant because he loved the baby Zuri at the Hogle Zoo. Thankfully Ben's sister had a wonderful elephant costume that she let us borrow. At first, I thought it looked huge but really it fit him perfectly. I love these pictures of him and just smile every time I look at them. Taylor was a black cat. We dressed her up in this cute little outfit that I found. I loved the hat and the kitty on her bum.
The weather was a little wet this year so we waited until the rain stopped before we headed out that night to trick-or-treat. It was cold but it wasn't raining on us. For some reason, Logan didn't want to wear his elephant hat that night but regardless he still looked cute and the costume kept him super warm.


Due to the weather, we opted to leave Taylor at home with my family while we went out with Logan. When we were done trick-or-treating we came home and made some of these yummy sugar cookies.

Then on Sunday night we headed over to the Ellis home and had our traditional Ellis Family Halloween party. This year I made some mummy hot dogs that the kids really seemed to like. Ben was Al from Home Improvement (last minute idea) and I was a witch. The party was fun but the kids seemed to be a little more energized since we did it after Halloween instead of before. Nevertheless, we enjoyed our time playing games and eating yummy food.

Two Weeks Old

Taylor got a little bit of an eye infection her first week home from the hospital. We took her in to the doctor and they gave her some Gentax to try to clear it up. They said it wasn't uncommon for babies to have clogged tear ducts which could lead to infection. It took it awhile to clear up but after about 10 days it looks a lot better and she no longer needs the medication.


At her 2 week appointment, Taylor weighed 8 lbs 13 oz and was 21.5 inches long. So she gained a pound and grew an inch and half in just two weeks. It is seriously amazing how fast they grow up.

Taylor's first few days

Our first night home Logan insisted that sister sleep next to him in his bed. I think he is slightly excited to be a big brother. Taylor weighed 7 lbs 4 oz when discharged from the hospital. We took her to the doctor on the Friday after she was born and she was back up to 7 lbs 11 oz already (so practically her birth weight). Needless to say she is doing very well. She seemed to catch on to the breastfeeding very easily and we have had no issues (hooray). She wakes up about every 3 hours to eat which makes for a tired mom but luckily we have had lots of help around the house and for dinners.
The next few days we had several visitors come to see her that weren't able to in the hospital. Here is Taylor with her Grandma Great, her Uncle Marv,

her Uncle Ernie,
and her Aunt Kathy and cousins Hollie and Matt.

And here she is with her adoring big brother again. I don't think we could have too many pictures of him holding her though.
Lastly, these are just a few more cute pictures!