My poor little Baby Ellie has her first ear infection.
It makes me very, very sad.
She is in a lot of pain and is tugging at her ear constantly.
She will only sleep if she is laying on someone, preferably mommy, or if she is upright in her swing.
She has had 3 doses of antibiotics and is taking some Advil for the pain as well.
I hate seeing her in pain and not being able to really do anything to comfort her.
Since she hasn’t been sleeping much, neither have I.
Needless to say, my lack of sleep is causing me to snap at every one about every little thing.
Other than the ear infection, Ellie is doing great. Her umbilical hernia is almost gone and looks much better than it did a month ago. She is also getting big! According to the scale when they weighed her in the ER she is just over 11 pounds but I will have an official update on weight and height when she goes in for her 4 month check on the 17th.
She is also full of smiles and loves to talk and play.
Oh and she is totally enamored with the television and cannot take her eyes off of it!
Other than that, I’m really hoping we start to see some improvement in the next 24-48 hours because we could all use some rest before the busy holiday weekend arrives.
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Baby Bean’s First Celebrity Meeting
As I mentioned in a previous post, this past weekend, the Alex (AKA @TheSciFiDaddy), baby Ellie and I made our way to Chicago for the 2012 International Home & Housewares Show.
We had a blast!
I had received an email earlier in the week inviting us to stop by the SodaStream booth to check out their new line in addition to see their special celebrity guest, Jillian Michaels.
We had already planned on stopping by the booth because I was dying to try a SodaStream (yes, up until Saturday, we were SodaStream virgins!).
So, we made our way to the booth, learned how to make a soda using the SodaStream and some other cool stuff before taking a seat to wait for Jillian.
A few minutes later Jillian came out to face the crowd around the booth, pose for pictures and shoot some promos. We couldn’t see much of her (other than her backside which
a bit as she did more promos until the Alex said he wanted to get moving and check out more stuff. We made our way around to the front of the booth in an attempt to take a picture or two
I no more than snapped this picture, not even knowing what I had actually taken a picture of when I look at Jillian, yes, THE JILLIAN MICHAELS, and here her say I want to see the baby! of Jillian and just as I snapped this picture, everything changed!
Yes!!!
Jillian Michaels was requesting to meet see our little Baby Ellie all snug and wrapped in her Moby strapped to me.
I of course obliged and made my way over to show off our precious little girl.
I mean seriously…..Jillian Michaels!
I walked over to her, I showed off little Miss Ellie.
Thank goodness the Alex was there with me and was paying attention otherwise we wouldn’t have these awesome pictures in which you can see Jillian swoon over the cuteness that is Baby Ellie and one of her and I talking about Ellie.
She couldn’t believe that Ellie was closing in on 3 months, she thought for sure she was just 2 days old. She went on to tell me about her niece who had just had a baby who was already 10lbs which is what our 3 month old Ellie is.
Now, remember that part when I mentioned that Jillian was shooting photos and promos right before this happened?
Well, she did this in the middle of shooting a promo and they had to start over.
I thought that was pretty awesome. She didn’t care if she had to do it again, she just really wanted to see our baby and meet Ellie.
As for the Alex and I, we are still in shock that this happened and think it is pretty damn sweet!
Thank you @JillianMichaels for being awesome and for being the first celebrity our little Ellie got to meet!!
2 Months
Ellie is officially 2 months old.
She currently weighs 8lbs. 14 oz. and is 21 1/4 inches long.
Also, she’s a pro at smiling!
Herniated
Yes.
Our sweet little Baby Ellie has a herniated belly button.
Thankfully it is small enough that the doctor thinks it will close by itself.
Just to be safe, she is being re-examined by our family doctor this Friday (mommy needs the reassurance).
It doesn’t really seem to have any affect on her other than the fact she went from an innie to an outie.
Either way, she is still just as adorable.
All in all Ellie is doing very well.
When we took her into the Dr. last week to have her belly examined she weighed in at 8lbs. 13oz.
I am very happy with the weight gain and I cannot wait to have her checked out on Friday and see how tall she is.
I know she has definitely grown because she is finally moving out of her newborn clothing and into all of the cute 0-3 month stuff she has!
Fingers crossed that all goes well at tomorrow’s appointment!
Hard to believe that tomorrow she will be 2 months old already!!!!
6 Weeks Old – Time Sure Does Fly
It’s hard to believe that our Little Ellie is already 6 weeks old.
Over the weekend we put the finishing touches on her crib and then let her try it on for size.
I can’t believe just how little she looks in that big crib on her soft and warm crib sheets!
I think she will be staying in her bassinet a little longer!
In other Ellie news, she’s still doing good. She spits up A LOT so we are constantly doing laundry. Right now she has a bit of a cold so we are doing our best to get rid of it.
All in all, things are great and we are still just as smitten with her as we were the day she arrived!