Lily & Leo

Happy 2 months old to our precious Lily!!  I cannot believe how fast time is going by, it seems like it’s on jet fuel on turbo mode or something, my baby only has 1 month left of being a newborn!  *sniff sniff*  Our little Lily pad is more alert these days, and stays awake for about 1-2 hours at a time, usually about twice a day (in the morning and in the evening).  About 2 weeks ago she started playing on the floor gym and she absolutely loves it!  She’ll lay there by herself even, and just stare at the dangly toys and wave her arms and kick her legs with joy and excitement!  She loves to look around, she’s very curious and is attracted to colorful things and bright lights!  She really like mobiles as well!  She smiles more and is cooing a lot as well!  Sometimes she even makes noises that sounds like little baby chuckles, it’s super cute!  She’s getting longer and bigger, and her eyelashes are gorgeously long!  She totally gets that from her daddy! =)  She’s also starting to fill out the crib more, still small, but almost twice as big from 2 months ago!  She sleeps on average of 4-5 hours a night, the other day she slept for 6 hours!  She eats about 4 fluid ounces at each meal time and within a week or two, she will graduate to size 2 diapers!  She moved up from newborn to size 1 diapers shortly after she hit 1 month!  So far we haven’t had to buy any new diapers yet (knock on wood) thanks to all our friends and family who bought them for us!  We are SUPER grateful for that!  Also, last week her newborn clothes started getting tight.  So we started to put her in size 3 month – 6 month clothes now.  I got really sad when this happened because that means my baby is getting bigger!  It’s bitter sweet!  I will definitely store her clothes in a box, I’m too attached!!  haha.

Lily had her 2 month check-up today!  She came into the doctor’s office sleeping as you can see and then she eventually wakes up.  She stretches 21.75 inches long (about in the 50th percentile), weighs 11.25 pounds (a little above 50%), and her head measures 15 inches in circumference (between 25-50%).  After the nurse got all her measurements, Lily was waiting happily and patiently to see the doctor!  As you can see, she eventually got bored and sleepy, very typical of Lily to be sleepy all the time haha.  Doctor Wang finally came in to examine Lily and said she’s doing really great and is developing very well!  His words were “she’s developing really really good!”  haha!  Way ta go Lily pad!!

Then, of course, what we’ve all been waiting for (except for Lily) Lily got her shots!  The first one was an oral shot that supposedly tasted sweet, she took that no problem.  I was surprised at how much there was of it, but she drank it like a champ!  Then the next 4 shots were the ones I dreaded, mostly because I feared what she would have to go through phyically and me mentally. Khoa’s mom was told to hold her arms down, and right as she did that, Lily instantly knew something was wrong.  I can imagine her thinking “why are you pinning me down and taking away my ability to flail my arms freely???”  Lily instantly started to cringe and turn red, and then BAM, the shots to her thighs began, one by one, a total of four.  I never heard her cry so much before and her scream sounded so painful it broke my heart!  Soon enough though, it was over.  Lily was still crying for a couple minutes after, but then in the end, she managed to give me a smile (picture to the right), her smile always makes me so happy.  She knocked out for the next couple hours, and when we got home, she was really happy and playful, and then went back to sleep some more!  She was only a tiny bit fussy before her dinner time, but after she had her meal, it was right back to sleep for her!  Our precious little angel!  You can see her battle wounds in the picture to the left.

Lily we love you so very much!  Happy 2 months baby, you’re constantly our ray of light, our giant ball of sunshine, and a huge aura of happiness!  Hugs and kisses to you Lily!!!  XOXO!!

Below, you can watch how her shots went, it was taken in four parts.  The beginning was how she was doing before her shots, then the oral immunizations, then the long anticipated shots, then how she was 3 hours later!  Mommy’s so proud of you Lily, you are so brave and did so great!  XOXO!!