Emarie's 2... 2 months!!!

mom's everywhere want to bottle time, because our babies need a pause button.  i can't believe this little bug-a-boo is 2 months old today!

5.26.11: 2 months

iphone pic, kinda blurry

on this monumental day i wanted to share her growth stats so far.  i just realized i need to include her 1 month stats too.  Here we go:

E @ 1 month:
height- 20 3/4 inches
weight- 9 pounds
head circumference- 14 inches

about 1 month old

E @ 2 months:
height- 22 1/8 inches
weight- 10 pounds 12 oz.
head circumference- 14 3/4 inches

her facial expressions are hilarious

how can she sleep like this?

with this wonderful 60th day of my babe's life came an AWFUL requirement... her first set of shots!  i totally held it together in the doctors office, and cried on the way home.  to see her face as she realizes she's just been pokes with a needle was the worst thing i've ever seen.  she cried so hard for 3 minutes that she fell asleep before we even got out of the room.  i immediate called my better half and requested he take her for her 4 month shots.

as i was putting her back into her carseat i whispered that i'd cuddle her all afternoon and i didn't care if she had another restless night because i felt terrible for her getting the shots.  they use cute bandaids, but who are they kidding.  a cute bandaid won't make a baby/kid feel better after they get poked.  ya know shots are an inevitable evil, but i guarantee you moms are stronger than dads when it comes to seeing their little angels cry.  if ryan does take E for her next shots, i put money on it that he cries too {wimp :)}.

she basically slept all afternoon and each time she woke up, poor baby cried out.  i think her legs are sore.  she's so tiny and if her legs hurt like my arms do after a shot, then she has every right to sleep all day.  lately she has really started to l.o.v.e. her baths, so we let her relax in the tub longer than usual tonight.  i wanted to end this blog with this picture... i am obsessed with this little girl.  she has my heart.

haha, her face says it all- she's in heaven

tara

holy tornado warning, batman

what an eventful day-before Emarie turns 2 months old!  a tornado warning in KC.  i've lived in the midwest almost all my life (short and heavenly hiatus in college while on a student exchange to Colorado, then a year in oregon), so this isn't my first {tornado} rodeo.  i haven't experienced bad weather as a mom though.  a friend put it best yesterday on fb, she said, "tornado's aren't cool when you have kids", and this is SO true.

today started pretty much like any other day, well except that ryan woke up on the couch, due to the weather last night.  the craziness started about 11:15ish with this loud beeping in my kitchen. i realized the 30 bucks i spent on an all-weather radio yesterday (yes, just yesterday) was notifying me of a tornado watch.  i turned on the news station and didn't see anything.  soon the new station had started giving warnings and information.  i was watching all these funnel clouds forming in south KC.  and i started calling ryan at work.  he didn't think it was so bad, but he agreed it'd be a good idea to get things together just in case (smart as a whip that one is).  BUT what kind of things... i've never done this.  do you strap a baby into their carseat, maybe you grab their diaper bag, how about extra clothes, food, a paci?  i don't know, all their possessions?  if i could have, i would have taken her entire pack-n-play to the basement.  not sure why, but i would have.  in the end, i only grabbed two pillows, a blanket, the dogs, and her diaper bag.  and her, strapped to my chest with the baby bjorn.  once i was sitting under the stairs and waiting for a loud train-like noise (that's what people always say it sounds like), i realized neither E or me had shoes on.  she was in a t-shirt, pants, and no socks for gosh sakes.  OMG!  if a tornado was to come, we were to survive it, we'd be screwed afterwards.  what kind of mother am i... a brand spankin' new one, i guess.

next thing i know, i hear the sirens going off and the radio upgraded the tornado to a warning.  thunder is crashing, the dogs are nervous; am i painting a good picture?  i even heard the trash/recycle truck go down the street.  (and people say some city workers are lazy, ha, not the ones here).  i've actually never gone to a basement to take cover from a tornado.  we didn't have basements in OK, just a closet under the stairs, a bath tub, or in the hallway, if you were unlucky enough to be in Mrs. Jamison's first grade class at Peters Elementary in 1986-87.  why did mother nature brew up a tornado today, while my husband was at work.  doesn't she know i need help here.

obviously we are okay since i'm blogging about it, but there are people all over MO, KS, OK, and AR that are not as lucky as we are.  my heart goes out to the people that are rebuilding, mourning the loss of a loved one, and all the volunteers that are still looking for survivors.

with E turning 2 months tomorrow, i documented this nerve-racking event so she can appreciate chuckle at my parenting skills later on.  our family is thankful for our safety and we are thinking and praying for those people that have been affected by the devastating midwest weather these past few days. (some pics were taken on the iphone and aren't that good)

scary clouds from my back door

from my front door

closer up from my back door

here we are, taking cover

yes, i strapped my kid to my chest

under the stairs to the basement

not sure how safe we really would have been...

tara

this is a BIG DEAL!!!

so as i sit and drink my morning coffee {fully loaded :)}, listening to the dishwasher run, watch E in her swing, and see the neighbor's dog poke his head through the already broken screen door, i have to say, this is shaping up to be a GREAT DAY!  it actually started last night {mom's will know what i mean}, E went down after her now routine bath at 8:30pm and {Hallelujah} slept until 1:37am, to be exact!  for those mathematically challenged, like myself, that's 5, count them, F.I.V.E. hours!!! and if you thought it couldn't get any better, she fell right back asleep after eating until about 5:15am.  another good stretch.  figuring she'd be up for the day i braced myself to get up.  all of a sudden i realize my neck is killing me.  i've slept wrong and now with each turn of my head i'm in a lot of PAIN.  darn you temper-pedic-pillow-top-mattress-thing-that's-supposed-to-be-awesome, you stink!  but ryan loves you.  i digress, struggling through the neck pain and feeding a baby was tough.  i even lashed out at ryan...oops.  can i get a free pass, i was {still am} in pain?  after E was done eating, i thought, lets see if she will go back down.  wrapping her back in her swaddling blanket and laying her back in her pack-n-play, i tip-toed slowing back to bed... she stayed still. no squirming, grunting, or crying.  again, this perfect {so far today} baby fell back asleep.  THANK YOU JESUS!!!  {side note: thank you also for not letting today be the end of the world}.

she woke up about an hour and a half later, but that was fine with me.  now, i'm rip-roaring-and-ready-to-go.  i sincerely hope this will become a regular occurrence.  it's a happy saturday at this house.