Introducing Eleanor Kay!

Eleanor was born at 7:45 PM on Thursday May 8th, 2008. She was 7 lbs 8 oz and 21 and 1/4" long- 90 percentile for length. She developed collic around 2 and a half weeks and I had to cut dairy completely from my diet. That helped some but she had gassy periods between 8 and 11 at night every day and often in the mornings. She really started getting better between weeks 8 and 9 but has had some difficult days in the last week or so. Even so, she has started going about 8 hours between meals at night now pretty regularly- what a difference that makes!


She has started smiling and cooing a lot in the last week and is such a sweet little thing. She doesn't sleep as well as Peter did (he used to be able to sleep anywhere) and wakes up with too much noise (or moving around in her carrier).

Peter just loves his little sister and tries to give her kisses all day long. When he sees her and when he hears her crying he signs "baby." He hasn't acted jealous yet and is always gentle with her (accept for when he tries to give her a toy and isn't coordinated enough to be gentle).

Overall, we are doing great and in love with our little family.