10 weeks and Sucking Her Thumb!

I can't seem to figure out how to post pictures where I want them in the blog... anyone know how?

Our little one just keeps getting cuter and cuter by the day.  She is all smiles these days and happy as can be.  We finally got some of those smiles on camera, check out the latest album called "9 1/2 weeks".  Blair has enjoyed practicing his art of photography on such a worthy subject and we're so thankful for some great shots!

Latest big news: Ava has started sucking her thumb!  She never really took a pacifier so we stopped offering it and would let her suck on our pinky fingers occasionally when she needed help calming down.  About two weeks ago she "found" her tongue and started moving it around and smacking her lips.  Around the same time we'd catch her sucking on any part of her hand she could get in her mouth, most often a whole side of her fist, but never a consistent finger.  But just this week she has started consistently sucking her thumb and it is so adorable!  Of course this will cause a lot of heartache when we have to break her of it later but for now we love watching her find her thumb and also are loving that she can soothe herself so well now. This is helping her sleeping schedule during the day because she puts herself to sleep much more quickly and without much fussing, and if she wakes up early she used to cry and cry if she was still tired but now she can put herself back to sleep or entertain herself until nap time is over.  It's wonderful!  She has always been a pretty easy going baby but now she rarely fusses and is very content!  We're so blessed to have her!

Two Months Old!

Today was Ava's 2 month check-up.  Once again she passed with flying colors!  We are so thankful that she is healthy and yes, huge.  She gained another pound in the last two weeks so she's right at 13lbs and 23 inches long.

She also got her first round of shots today and did very well.  She continues to impress us and we're pretty sure we got an "easy" baby!  Last weekend we took our first trip with her and she did amazingly well, sleeping and eating just as she would have if we were home.  She is starting to smile a lot now which we love and keep trying to capture on camera!  We've gotten a couple half smiles but we're still waiting to get that first huge grin.  For now we'll just include this adorable picture that we took while she was sleeping the other day.  Thankfully she's a sound sleeper because every time I go in and see that face I just have to kiss those cheeks!

This second video was taken when we first started getting Ava on a strict feeding & sleeping schedule a couple of weeks ago.  After a few days she started sleeping through the 11pm feeding and this is us trying to wake the very unwakeable Ava Drake.

Finally we've gotten around to posting a couple videos of our adorable Ava!  First a short update... last Wednesday we saw the doctor and she's on zantac for acid reflux.  It hasn't really helped yet but we're still hoping.  We also got her weight on Wednesday... she is 12 lbs!  She's definitely not hurting for more calories, that's for sure.

This first video is of her first bath in the baby tub, taken at about three weeks.  She liked sponge baths but wasn't thrilled about actually sitting in the water.  It's very cute though, she didn't cry, she just whimpered and looked at us like, "I'm not so sure about this!"