8 weeks old already

3-27-10 Jillian @ 8 weeks
Jillian sucking her thumb

Jillian really enjoys laying on her blanket so she can kick her legs. She especially likes to be talked to. Lately she has started trying to get her whole fist in her mouth. Today she also got her thumb in her mouth. She has only done this one other time that I have seen.

Jillian Noises

Jillian has started to make happy noises and does smile at us occasionally. However when I get out the camera to capture her cute noises she gets quiet. Little goober just looks at the camera.

Bear Bear

Jillian with her new care bear.

When I was a baby a good friend of my parents named Diane made me a care bear. Now the one she made me was very well loved so his color is a bit faded and is a little see through. As you can see Diane made a new care bear (the same one as I had) for little miss Jillian. So sweet of her :)!

One Month old

Here is Jillian at one month old.

Today (March 2nd) we took Jillian to her 2nd doctors appointment. She had her first at 4 days old. She weighed in today at 9 lbs 2 ozs and at 21 inches long!! She has gained a lot in her first month. She was in the 50 percentile for her head size, 42nd for length, and 44th for weight.

She was awake and happy for the visit until her shot. She didn't care for that so much. Poor little thing was just laying there all happy and she got poked by a needle. She cried for less than a minute and then she was happy again.

We are finally starting to get in to a bit of a routine around here. Jillian gets up 2 times during the night to eat. She has been eating and then going right back to sleep so that has been nice.

She is awake and happy pretty much all morning and then starts to get sleepy after lunch. She then wakes back up in the evening. We have been giving her a bath each evening because it wakes her up. The one evening recently that we didn't give her a bath she was up from 12:30 am till 3 or 4 in the morning. She took her long sleep that evening instead of during the night.

Here is Jillian at 3 weeks old.

She has been doing pretty good about sleeping. On good nights she only wakes me up twice to eat. Other nights we get up more frequently. Also sometimes she thinks it is fun to be awake between 2 am and 4 am... That is not so fun for mom & dad. We like to sleep during those hours.

Yesterday (2-23-10) Jillian ate out of a bottle for the first time. At first she was trying to spit it out (probably thinking it was just that dumb pacifier). Rick got a little milk to start to come out of the bottle and she decided it was good. She ate every drop out of the bottle.

More Jillian Videos

I had Jillian laying on the couch next to me on her tummy and she rolled over to her back. I figured it was just a fluke so I put her back on her belly and sure enough she did it again! The video of her rolling from belly to back is actually her third time in a row! I didn't think she would be able to do this yet.



This video is not nearly as exciting. It is just a video of her laying around, but she is wide awake!

Here is a picture of my belly taken yesterday (2-5-10). Just one week after Jillian was born. It feels tiny to me after what it looked like just last week.

Jillian is a good baby. She only cries if she is hungry or needs her diaper changed. She does let me get some sleep in about 2 - 3 hour sections. Sometimes only about an hour but it just depends.





Poor little thing gets hiccups. I took a video of her with a case of them. Her whole little body shakes.