Tiny as a peanut

Can you tell it's Christmas and I don't have to work? Catching up on some long overdue blogging.

So, baby girl is still just a tiny little thing! She was 6lb 7oz at birth, got down to 5lb 8oz and has been growing steadily since. The only thing is that she's not gaining weight as fast as we'd expect. She was 11lb 4oz when she had her 4 month well baby visit. That's the 2percentile for weight! At first it made us pretty worried because she'd fallen at little from her growth curve (previously 10th), but once our pediatric provider examined her and saw how strong she is, she was a lot less worried. She's still on her curve for height (10th) and head (50th!!), so that's a good thing. She's doing all the things a healthy happy 4 month old should do: rolling over both ways, starting to sit on her own with little support, sleeps great all night and is alert awake an happy during the day. It's odd because she's such a good eater! At her visit the pediatric provider commented that she eat as much as a six month old. She doesn't spit up or have reflux. I think she's just gonna be one of those girls with a great metabolism that makes all the other girls jealous when she's bigger but makes mom and dad a tiny bit anxious today :)
Fortunately, we have a trusted pediatrician in the family who helped us come up with a plan to fortify breast milk with calories to give her more calories. By her sweet kissable cheeks and shrinking pjs, I think it's working. We will weigh her again in a few weeks and see how we are doing.

In the meantime, I think Zane said it best the very first time he met her. She is, indeed, "little as a peanut!"

Mornings with Molly

Today is Christmas Eve and I'm sitting in a comfy chair in my moms room feeding my sweet girl and feeling blessed.

I absolutely love my morning time with sweet girl! She wakes up so happy (almost) everyday around 6 and will just sweetly curl up to me and eat. We hold hands or she sweetly plays with my pajama top and it just feels so wonderful. It's the absolute best way to start my day! It's especially nice because she is so distracted and wiggly for all the rest of her feeds throughout the day. Ben was feeding her a bottle at the mall 2 days ago while we shopped and waited to see Santa. She had to watch every single person walk by and it took like 40 minutes to eat one six ounce bottle and milk was all over her face and chest. She's so attentive and curious and wants to be exploring and moving all the time, making it hard to keep her focused on eating sometimes. That being said, she is such a good eater!! She has been eating five six ounce bottles per day since a little before 4 months of age. I have no idea how she stays so tiny. All I know for sure is I absolutely adore this sweet little girl and treasure these mornings together!