The Goldilocks of Squishiness

I love holding and cuddling my girls. I remember several years back worrying about when Lorelei would outgrow my lap and wouldn't want to snuggle any more. How bizarre to think that at some point the little body that I knew better than anyone else, would be hidden away in modesty. Lorelei still likes hugs and kisses, but she doesn't seem to want to sit on my lap for too long and she is more interested in waking early in the mornings to watch tv (with the volume off so that I don't know about it!!!!!!) than in coming to give me kisses and a good morning. That said, she isn't as fun to cuddle as she once was either because now she is all angles; long legs and knees and elbows, feet and heels. Too hard.

Sabrina doesn't cuddle just yet. So far it is more like molding her body to mine. I think it will be more enjoyable once she develops her back muscles and uses her spine more! Too soft (oh, but so, so soft!).

Emma is such a rough and tumble bulldozer of a child that I worried she wouldn't want to be cuddled at all.  Thankfully I was wrong. She likes to sit on my lap and touch my face. She comes in to my room in the morning to cuddle until she is fully awake. I love folding her up into myself. Her skin is so soft and squishy. She still has the little dimples at her knuckles and honestly cheeks to make a squirrel jealous. Just right!

Losing Weight

As anyone who has ever tried to lost weight can attest, it never comes off the places one would most like it to. In the first 3 weeks after Sabrina's birth, I lost nearly 20 pounds. In the 5 weeks following that, I have lost 1 pound. That is right. One single pound. And case in point, I think that my nose got skinnier. My nose ring has been spinning around and poking itself out of my nose and being a general nuisance lately. That pound must have come from there. Well, I tweaked my jewelry this past weekend and all is well. Now if I could just lose the rest of the pregnancy weight, I'd be able to comfortably wear my clothes again and all would be well there too.

2 Months Old

Dr. Finer commented that Sabrina must have a sixth sense because our normally very easy going baby started crying in the car on the way to the doctor's office and didn't stop until we left the office. Nothing that we did calmed her down for long and her first vaccination shots certainly didn't do the trick either.

In the past month Sabrina has certainly been growing. I remind the other girls just how much growing Sabrina has to do and that growing only happens while the body sleeps so - please let the baby sleep! (Actually Sabrina seems completely impervious to the antics and noise level of her sisters even when she is sleeping right in the middle of it.) Andres won the contest for Master Estimator this month coming in with an exactly correct estimated weight of 11 pounds on the dot. She grew another inch this past month as well and is now stretching out to 22 and 3/4 inches. Her head is just under 15 inches. To summarize: Her weight is now at the 36th percentile a drop from 53rd a month ago, but nothing to worry about, her height is 44th percentile down from 48th (oh no - she's shrinking!) and her head remains right at the 16th percentile.