The Littlest Warrior: Growing, Smiling, and Melting Hearts

11 weeks old.

Greetings from the Casa de Lucy! We’ve had an eventful past few weeks. Here are some highlights and pics.

Lucy passed her 2-month check-up with flying colors. She got 6 vaccinations which made her feel a little crabby, but she bounced back in about a day. She’s also gaining weight at a good rate. A month ago she was off the growth charts; now she’s just under the 5^th percentile. As of now, the Littlest Warrior currently weighs 8 lbs, 13 oz! Her belly is also continuing to heal nicely.

Lucy's Special Spot.

Lucy smiles now and tries to “talk” to us. All we have to do is smile and say “hi!” to get a huge, gummy grin. It’s the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen. She's also doing a lot of cooing and shouting when she gets excited. Finally some reassurance that she not only knows who we are, but she actually likes us!

Smiley smiler.

Can you handle it?

We started supplementing with formula and that is going well. I was a little worried that her system would have trouble adapting, but we haven’t had any problems. She still gets all the breast milk I can give her, but we’ll give her formula if she’s still hungry after breastfeeding or if Erik needs to feed her.
She is finally starting to sleep for longer stretches at night (thank GOD!!!) She’ll go to bed around 8:00 pm, wake up around 2:00 am to eat, then go back to bed and wake up around 7:00 am. She’s been pretty consistent for the past couple weeks. She also sleeps in her own room now.
Lucy actually enjoys bath time now!

Bath time!

The warm-washcloth-on-the-belly trick. It's a game changer.

A very special bath time helper.

Erik went back to work last week. It’s been a little rough because I’m doing all the late night feeds now (we used to split them). But moreover, it was hard to say goodbye to our days together as a family. Those 6 weeks really flew by! But hey, what can you do? You gotta feed the monkey.
The search for child care has officially begun. We’re looking for a home day care close to our house. We’ve visited a couple of places and we’re going to try to make a final decision by the end of the month. Finding child care in San Francisco is NOT easy. More than a couple of places that I’ve called have wait lists that are over a year long. And like everything else in this City, it ain’t cheap.
We’ve had a lot of family visitors, including Grandma Vivian, Papa Al, and Cousins Alex, Krissy, Sue Ann, Ashley, and Andrew. Needless to say, Lucy charmed the socks off of all of them!