Trash Talk

For those of you who don't know, John and I are die hard Buff fans...(I don't know how you couldn't know this). Which means with the CU vs. CSU game coming up on Sunday night, we had to get McKenna her first Buffs jersey. It's very important that there is no doubt in anyones mind that she loves the Buffaloes. She will be wearing her jersey to church on Sunday and to watch the game on Sunday night. So be prepared, McKenna's first words may be, "I hate the Rams."

Sleeping like a baby...

I can't hardly believe that McKenna's a month old, it really seems like it was yesterday that I was in the hospital waiting to bring her home. She is such a good baby, she takes good naps, still only gets up once in the night and is rarely fussy. We are blessed. She really is a representation of God's grace for us, through her we get a small taste of what God's love for us is like.

Every time I feed her(did I mention she loves to eat?) I am reminded of the verse, 1 Peter 2:1-3; "Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good." It's a great message for all of us to make sure that we are called to get rid of all of the junk in our lives, and desire what the Lord has for us. It's fun to look at McKenna and see what innocence looks like...if only it would last forever :-)

On a lighter note, John decided that McKenna needed some sunglasses while we were at the mall last week. As you can see from the picture, she loves them...

Also, I have noticed that when she naps, she has adopted Josh Pittman's newborn napping style, hands behind the head (I don't know if Josh still does this, I recall pictures of him sleeping like this when he was an infant). I have some pictures of this too:

McKenna's growing an epic double chin...

So when we had McKenna weighed at the doctor's office for the first time she was only in the 25th percentile for weight... since then she's been making up for lost time, eating like crazy and avoiding wake time like the plague. I weighed her this morning because I was curious to see if she'd gained any weight in the last three weeks. I stepped on the scale with her, then set her down to see what the difference was...I realize it's not the most scientific way I could of done it, but I can't think of a better way. She was 9lbs according to my math. I think you can see the difference if you look at a picture of her from 3 weeks ago, and a picture of her today:


I mean look at the double chin/neck roll... I think it's impressive work for three weeks.

It's my turn...

So John has passed the blogging responsibilities off to me... apparently he has to work or something during the day. So while I eat a Popsicle while the baby is sleeping I thought I would take a moment to post some of the goings on of the last two weeks, since I have heard from several people that we've been remiss in not posting any updates since we came home from the hospital.

We've had our first 'check-up' and McKenna was back up to her birth weight... 6lbs 15oz, and she met Dr. Steitz for the first time... she liked him, as you can tell from this photo we took at the doctors office (ok maybe it was gas, but still cute none the less)
Dr. Steitz confirmed our suspicion that McKenna was tongue tied (meaning the piece of skin that holds your tongue to the bottom of your mouth was connected all the way to the tip of her tongue). He referred us to an ENT surgeon for a consultation, and we went last Monday to get it taken care of. It was traumatic for both of us, I had to hold McKenna when they anesthetized the underside of her tongue, which was not fun, and then I held her while they clipped the skin under her tongue... that part was horrible. She was really fussy for the entire day, and couldn't suck on her pacifier because her mouth was numb. Finally Kassie (our friendly neighborhood pharmacist) came to the rescue, and told us we could give her baby tylenol. We went back to the ENT surgeon yesterday for a recheck, and he told us that everything has healed properly and she's back to normal.

Other than our one fussy day, we've been really blessed so far that McKenna is a very happy (and sleepy) baby. She is getting up once to eat during the night, and usually goes right back to sleep after she's full. Not too shabby for a kid that's only 2.5 weeks old. We're getting settled into a routine and working on napping at the same time.

That's it for now...