Talkative Baby and the 2 month Well Visit

Brooke has found her voice. She has been cooing here and there, but tonight we had a little chat. I've been trying to catch it on video, but it took a two man team to get it done. When it's just one of us with the camera, she gets distracted and just stares at the camera. With Daddy videoing from the side, she and I carried on a nice conversation. She talks a bit in the first half and then gets sleepy toward the end.

We had her two month check up on Friday. She is 13 lbs. 9 oz. and 22 3/4 inches tall. She's in the 95% for weight and 85% for height. It just cracks us up how big she is because Lainey has always been so small. Lainey was 10% for weight and 50% for height all along until her 2 year check up when she graduated to the 11% for weight. Haha!

Both girls got shots on Friday and neither one cried. We have some brave kiddos. We are getting caught up on Lainey's missed shots. We got behind a long time ago with baseball travel and then some illness that made us miss appointments that never got rescheduled. Brooke got her first DTaP vaccine today (very important as Pertussis is running rampant around here right now). We're following Dr. Sears' alternative schedule for the most part. There's a few tweaks that I made to it, like not doing the rotavirus vaccine. As a breastfed baby she's not at as much risk and the vaccine is too new in my opinion to know that it's totally safe. The first version of it caused some life-threatening side effects so I just don't trust it fully. I know that there isn't any scientific connection to autism from vaccines, but that's not why I'm spacing them out. There's two reasons why I prefer to space out the vaccines. #1: I just can't comprehend injecting my child with so many vaccines all at once. If we'd been on a normal schedule, Brooke would have received shots that cover 8 different diseases. That just seems like a huge strain on an immature, undeveloped immune system. #2: If there were an adverse reaction to a vaccine, how would we know which one was the trouble vaccine? With our selective schedule, if there is a problem, we will be able to discern the culprit more easily. This schedule does mean more visits and every visit will likely mean we get shots. It also means that she'll be older when she gets some of them and so she may show some fear and displeasure. But I think those things are worth it in the cost/benefit analysis of the whole thing. Lainey wasn't excited about her shot today, but she got a Tweety Bird band-aid and Dum-Dum sucker and it was all good. :)

Blogger on my phone!

I just got a blog app for my phone. Maybe we'll actually make this almost daily! And just to make this interesting... here's Brooke's serious eyebrows. :)

Video update!

Life is plugging along here. We've been hit with some kind of cold virus and today I feel myself slowly being taken down. Lainey has been sick on and off for over a week. She seems to get better for a day or two and then the fever or green boogers start all over again. It makes for a tough day for us when she is sick and cranky. Brooke is a bit congested as well and that makes it tough for her to get sleep. But we are getting through it. Summer is coming fast so we need to get healthy so that we can get outside and play before it gets too hot! I took a few videos yesterday. They are kind of cute. Brooke is starting to coo and babble a little bit. She likes to talk to Lainey and Lainey thinks it's great that Brooke will talk to her. The last video is one of the things John and Brooke do almost every night. She likes to sing and dance when Daddy plays his guitar. So without further ado... here's Brooke and Lainey.

Brooke Smiles!

We are starting to get some smiles here and there! It's so fun and I'm excited to get that first giggle. She's not as much of a talker as Lainey was, but it'll be hard to keep up with that chatter box. :)