Ultrasound and more pictures!

Despite a very unhappy, wiggly baby, the ultrasound technician was able to get the required pictures.  The result?  Completely normal!  So glad that's over!

 

Paige's 4 and 5 week pictures:

 

 

 

 

Olivia at 5 weeks:

 



 

This is why Paige looks big to us!  We keep getting the "she's so small," comments, but she is much bigger than Olivia at this age.  She fit into a 0-3 month sleeper yesterday, so sad to see her already outgrowing the newborn clothes!  Only 1 hat I made her still fits.  Olivia definitely had more hair, not sure why I thought Paige has more.  I think I'm remembering Olivia at closer to 4 months, when she lost most of that hair!
Another picture of both girls and a video:

 

 A few pictures I took when Paige was a week old.  I did have professional newborn pictures made, but I don't have them back yet!

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Don't worry, I'll post the professional pictures as soon as I have them, ha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stats, month 1

This little sweetie:

 

is not a fan of doctor appointments!  She does not like to have her clothes off and she does not like anyone messing with her when she's sleeping.  She started crying so hard at one point that the doctor had to leave the room and let me nurse her, so she would calm down.  Luckily, Olivia was at school during this appointment- she is not a fan of hearing Paige cry.  She tries to help- mainly by sticking her face right in Paige's, saying "Shh, shh, sister's here."  Not usually something that calms little sister! 
Paige is doing great!  She weighed in at 8 pounds, 2 ounces and 20 inches long.  She gained 2 pounds in a month- girl likes to eat!  She is in the 20th percentile for now.  Funny, she looks so big to me, but that is the same size as many newborns!  We'll see how she grows from here. 
She has an ultrasound in the morning to check her kidneys.  She was born with a 2 vessel umbilical cord (there should be 3).  This sometimes points to kidney problems, so her doctor wanted to get an ultrasound to be on the safe side.  Should be fun, ha!

Still working with Olivia on being gentle with her sister.  Paige gets the funniest look on her face when Olivia is around.  It's like she can't decide if she's fascinated or terrified:

 

 

She still loves holding her, but isn't great about supporting her head:

 

 

Which leads to Paige crying and this:

 

 

 

 

Which leads to more crying!

 

Michael has been great about making Olivia feel special- trips to Wal- Mart and dinner with just the 2 of them.  I am not going many places (ha!), but still trying to give her attention when we're home alone.  Lately, she's mostly wanted to make cookies (I am never going to lose this baby weight!).  She loves to help mix and has been asking to break the eggs recently.  I finally let her and this is what happened:

 





Those cookies might have had a little extra crunch!

 

It was probably gas, but I did get a smile yesterday:

 

 



 

And a dimple picture:

 



I adore this baby!



 





 



 

 



 

 



1 month!

How in the world is this sweet girl already a month old?



 

 

 

She has her 1 month well visit tomorrow!  I can't wait to see how much she weighs.  She is so much bigger than Olivia at this age, yet still so small.  Cracks me up how many people comment on her size.  Look at this belly:

 



 

You know how I like comparison pictures!  Olivia at 4 weeks:

 

 

 

 

Paige's 3 and 4 week pictures:

 

 

 

Olivia still loves her baby sister.  Sometimes a little too much!  She doesn't quite understand exactly how gentle she needs to be with her.  She's definitely had some adjusting, but I think we've turned a corner (thank goodness!).

 

 

 

 

Here's a picture of Paige and Olivia wearing the same sleeper and in the same bouncer.  Can you tell them apart?

 

 



 

Hope you have a good week!



 

 



 

 





And to all a good night...

We had a nice, quiet Christmas.  Olivia ended up getting to open gifts 4 times, so she was pretty pleased, ha!  She especially liked getting to open Paige's gifts, too.  Some pictures:

 

Paige was especially excited about gifts:

 

 





Olivia really wanted to make a gingerbread house.  We ventured to Wal-Mart one night and grabbed the first box we saw that looked like a gingerbread house.  It turned out to be a chocolate house- one that you melt the chocolate, pour it in a mold, then let it harden.  It actually turned out much better than the gingerbread houses we've made in the past!

 

Paige was really excited about the chocolate house:

 

 

We got Olivia a Cinderella dress with "glass" slippers.  She was pretty excited:

 

 

She was even more excited when her cousins Maggie and Aubrey passed down more princess dresses they had outgrown! 

 

Daddy once again enjoyed putting together all the plastic toys:

 

 

We are so blessed to be close to family!  Thank you to everyone that has visited and sent gifts to our sweet girls!

 



One last Olivia funny.  We had an empty picture frame.  She asked me if she could pick out 2 pictures from the ones we developed when Paige was born.  She wanted to put them in her room.  Here are the 2 pictures she picked out:

 

 

The first one is of her and mom the first time she met Paige.  The second one is of Michael in his scrubs right before the c-section!  Silly girl.

 

Paige's 2 week picture:

 

 

 

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

 



 





 



 

 

Adjusting

I will probably regret this, but Paige is a really good baby!  She only cries if she's hungry and I can usually hear her stirring around to eat before she actually cries.  She's sleeping well at night- I had to wake her up to eat the past 2 nights.  She is jaundiced, but not enough for treatment.  She weighed 5 lbs, 12 oz. when we left the hospital (Sunday), was up to 5 lbs, 14 oz. at her appointment Tuesday and was 6 pounds even Thursday.  I am so relieved to have a baby that is gaining weight appropriately! 
Olivia is in love with her new sister.  However, we have had family visiting since we got home from the hospital.  Michael's mom is leaving today and we have a few days by ourselves before the next shift of family arrives.  She has been getting loads of attention, so not sure how she's going to handle a "normal" day.

Some pictures:

Does this look familiar?

And for fun, here's Olivia at 1 week (tiny little thing!):

 

 

Introducing...

Paige Marie Wexler
12/14/12 at 6:36 a.m.
6 pounds, 2 ounces
18 1/2 inches long
She has lots of dark brown hair and a dimple in her left cheek!  Olivia is in love with her new little sister.  We are both doing great!  More later...

 

We made it!

We will officially have a full term baby!  C-section is scheduled for Friday- hard to believe!  Here is the 9 month picture:

 

Funny fact- I gained much more with Olivia, but I look bigger with this baby.  Oh well, we'll see how much she weighs in FIVE days (can you tell I'm a little nervous- her arrival always seemed so far away and now BAM it's here!).  Dr. Brody guessed her weight at 5 1/2 pounds 2 weeks ago.  I go back tomorrow for my last appointment, hopefully we'll get another guess.

 

Here's the progression pictures:

 





 





Crazy how much your body changes! 

As for Olivia- she is more excited about Christmas than her baby sister.  Well, Christmas and all the family that are coming to visit!  "Elfis" (our elf on a shelf) reappeared last week and she loves looking for him in the morning.  I am not one of these overly creative Elf on a Shelf people.   Our elf usually goes from sitting in the Christmas tree to sitting on the t.v.  I did put him in a bag of sugar one day and she thought that was the funniest thing ever.  She's pretty easy to please right now!

 

We did manage to get our tree up AND outside lights hung. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We rag curled her hair again last week and she insisted on a picture before school:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She is currently on her second round of antibiotics for bronchitis.  Her cough sounds awful!  She's acting fine, but her doctor decided to try one more round with the baby coming.  Michael and I have been sick, too!  Hopefully everyone is back to normal by Friday.  C-section is scheduled for 5:45 a.m. (I know, how crazy is that?  I tried to get it changed, but no luck).  Next time I post we'll have a new baby!