The Shots-2 Month Check-up

Well, Kinleigh had her 2 month check-up...Yep, you read that right, 2 months! She is very alert and hitting all the milestones for two months: Holding head up (she seemed to do this in the hospital but now for longer periods of times), Smiling (sometimes you'd be lucky to catch this but since the end of August smiles are everywhere), Cooing and eating enough to grow. Tuesday, Kinleigh weighed 11 lbs and 4 oz, which puts her in the 60%, she was 22.5 inches long which put her in the 50% (up two inches), and head circumference was 39 cm which was 55%. After all these test, Kinleigh had her 2 month shots: 3 shots and a drink covering 6 different things. We had a great nurse who gave the shots extremely quick and daddy was the lucky one to help hold her during this time. First shot and the crying did begin, for Kinleigh of course, and her cry was just like when she was born. As soon as she was done, we picked her up, gave her a bottle and she stopped crying. She only cried for a couple minutes and after eating for a few minutes started giving daddy some big smiles. Didn't seem to faze her too much, which made it easier for us.

On September 14, I went back to work. Everyone wants to know how it was to leave her and for me I felt very comfortable leaving her at daycare, as a friend of mine is watching her. I was really excited to go back to work as well, miss those kids too! I seem to be getting enough sleep or my body just knows this is the way it will be. I'm coaching volleyball right now as well so I don't get home until 6:30 - 7:00. Later on game days. This gives Jon his own time with Kinleigh, which we think is important. Only a couple more weeks left of volleyball and late nights.

Kinleigh gave us a nice surprise this week too. She slept through the night three nights in a row! We are very excited about that and hope this continues.

Daddy started to get some bug bite looking things that itched horribly so our first guess was that the dogs had fleas. I wasn't very convinced as I didn't have the bites and am home with the dogs all day. (This was before I went back to work.) So I gave the dogs a bath with flea shampoo and didn't see anything. Jon looked online and thought then maybe they are chigger bites. We picked up some medicine to stop the itching. Meanwhile during this time his dad also started to have the same symptoms. After about a week, they concluded that they both had poison ivy which they picked up in Genoa cleaning Grandma Roods yard. We are thankful it wasn't spread to the rest of us. This happened the end of August and it is just starting to look better.

Kinleigh went to her first football game to watch Uncle Jon. It was Homecoming and he was crowned King!


Lots of choppy stories but that is what you get for waiting so long for an update.