Big Girls, Vomit & Road Trips

We can’t believe it but our baby girl is already 1 month old! Time is flying by! We’ve had a blast watching Kendall grow and change in the last month, but then we look at Ella and get sad because we feel like it was just yesterday when she was this age and now she seems so big! But it’s also exciting as we remember all the fun milestones and stages we have to look forward to with Kendall, and we're having a blast with Ella as she gets older and is able to do more fun thing and says things that absolutely crack us up.

So anyway, our “little” girl isn’t so little! Kendall had her 1 month checkup yesterday with Dr. Bindner. She weighed in at a whopping 10 lbs 12 oz and was 22 ½ inches long. Her weight, height and head circumference are all 90th percentile! What a big girl! Needless to say, she has no issues eating and nursing has gone very well. Considering the stomach virus she just got over (more about that to come) and her frequent spitting up, we didn’t expect her to weigh so much! Everything else went well at the checkup. We discovered at her 2 week weight check that her clavicle (collar bone) is fractured. That commonly happens to big babies during birth and is not a big deal because it usually heals fine on its own. Dr. Bindner thought it was healing well. She received one vaccination yesterday – her 2nd dose of Hep B. She received the first dose in the hospital when she was born.

The rest of us are doing well. Last weekend the girls and I made a trip to Scottsville. It was Kendall’s first trip to visit the grandparents and my first trip home since getting the Pilot. It sure made for a better ride than the Malibu! A few days before we left Ella had her first experience throwing up. She woke up really sick one night but was such a tough girl. When I heard her crying for me I went to her room and she said “sumping happened” and pointed to the middle of her crib where she had vomited. She didn’t know what was going on! It ended up being a stomach virus because shortly thereafter I caught it, then poor Kendall got it too. (By the way, Ronnie’s profession has started to come in really handy. I was really, really sick one afternoon…ready for someone to just put me down…and Ronnie was able to call in a prescription for me that thankfully helped me stop vomiting.) Kendall was still having symptoms when we went to Scottsville but everyone insisted that we come on anyway, and I was looking forward to having some help since Ronnie had been working a long string of night shifts and wasn’t around much. One of the reasons we went down that weekend was for Andy Stewart’s wedding to Amber Murley. The wedding was beautiful and we had a great time, though Kendall decided to show everyone how cute she was by projectile vomiting during the reception. Poor buddy. Unfortunately we didn’t get out of Scottsville without making someone sick – my poor mom ended up catching the virus and unfortunately was much sicker than the rest of us were. I’m still sorry, mom!

Our big 1 month old!