Two Month Maia!

Our little girl is two months old today! Congratulations my Maia-bean.

Yesterday she weighed in at 10lbs 15oz, so almost 11 lbs. Still right on track. She is smiling like crazy now, big huge goofy grins, and she talks a lot, especially in the evenings. Some of her sounds have several syllables. They are so awesome to listen to. She is doing pretty well with sleeping now, usually falling asleep around the 11pm timeframe, waking once for a feeding around 3am, and then not again until 8am. I am pretty happy with this, although it really has just been going on for a few days. Before that it was a little more shaky, and Matt and I were doing "shifts" downstairs with her, while the other slept upstairs. Her feedings were falling around the same times/frequencies, but she had trouble actually sleeping during the night. I hope her current trend keeps up. That is, until she drops the 3am feeding...won't complain about that. Heh.

So, here comes the barage of pictures. Some of them are from our trip to Johnson Farm, some are from birthdays, some are from the family Reunion just passed, and so forth. There are a lot of them, but I can't help taking pictures of her and it's hard to choose which ones to leave out. I think I need to be less enthusiastic with the camera, so that it's easier to choose. Heh. And yes, all of these are since I last pasted two weeks ago.











Look at that GRIN! Just LOVE her smiles! They light up my day!



This is the start of the Oliver Reunion pictures. Here is Maia with Pappy, her paternal grandfather (Danny Miller).

And some pictures with Granny, her paternal grandmother (Darlene Miller).


A friend of the family, Candy (I think).


Mommy! (finally, some pix of me. There are a few of me holding here here, but this was the best one and there are already an overload of Maia pix).

Sherry (she is Matt's cousin, so not sure what her relationship to Maia is).


Maia with her Aunt Debbie.

Back at the hotel, poolside, with Granny.

And finally being held by her Aunt Dawn.


And let's end with yet another cute picture. Okay, okay, all of the pictures of her are cute, but I think she looks adorable in her little hoodie. Yes, it's pink. I am over my anti-pink phase, ALTHOUGH I will say that I would not have gone with this fuschia pink if I had a choice. They didn't have the white one in a size even close to fitting her, and I couldn't find any others, not even in the boys section. So...fuscia pink it is. For now.

Six Week Sweetie

Maia is now 6 weeks old (well, she was a few days ago, but close enough). I haven't posted about her in a little while, so figured I would do that, with another round of pictures, as well as updates about her.




She is smiling more, though it's still very random as she is still trying to figure it out. I can see her working her mouth, and she is either trying to get out a smile (and sometimes does), or trying to "talk", which happens sometimes as well. Her talking is so cute...just this little "ahhh" sound, though today she managed a sound with three syllables. And her smiles are adorable, as clumsy as they are. So far Liam, Daddy, a SCAdian named Ian, and myself have gotten smiles. But then, she hasn't been around anyone else enough to smile at them.




There is a cow hanging from her pack-n-play mobile (well, it's a stuffed cow from Chick-fil-A that Matt stuck up there), and she will STARE at it intently and then waggle her near arm at it in an attempt to smack it, which she often does. It's cool to watch her do it, to see her "playing" and learning.



Last time I weighed her (a few days ago) she was 9lbs 10oz. She is starting to have trouble fitting the newborn size clothing, and she has been wearing Size 1 diapers for at least a week or two now, having graduated out of the Newborn size.


Liam is still pretty happy with her, liking to be around her, trying to show her things, and giggling about her hands or feet or nose or whatever amuses him at the time. He tends to get more needy when we are giving her attention and tends to want to talk to or play with the parent that is holding her at the time. It can be trying, but we do our best.


Here I got a picture of Liam's and Maia's feet together. He found it amusing to hold his up to hers in comparison (he initiated this). So much difference in just four years.


Had to get this cute picture of Matt zonked out with Maia.


Here's Maia with her Aunt Jackie (I need to remember to take more of Maia with her other aunties...Jackie seems to have the monopoly on this)

And here is the dress that Jackie bought for her...Maia is expressing her opinion of it's 80's look.

Just kidding, she was just in a fussy mood at that point. She makes the dress look cute, and is quite content to zonk out in it.


Didn't get too many of her at our Memorial Day BBQ for some reason, even though there were lots of cute photo ops. But here is one of her chilling outside.


And here is her after her bath, all covered in towels. So cute.


And of course, since I am the one usually taking pictures, I am rarely in any of them. Here she is lying on my lap...with me taking the picture, so again you can't really see me (just my belly flab...sorry).



And finally, some pictures with Grandmom, who is as addicted to her as she was of Liam. (and Cole)




(Note: I am posting a few updates regarding my post-partum recovery as well, to have something to refer back to. Not that I ever plan to get pregnant again. But others will be pregnant and might want to know.
The night sweats have pretty much stopped. They actually petered off about two weeks ago, and definitely have been scarce the last week. The soreness from the episiotomy itself went away around the 3-week mark but there was still an area that was healing that stung a lot, and that only really started feeling better just before the 5-week mark. Now at the 6-week mark it is definitely a lot better, and I found that on days where I take it easy more, I hardly even notice it bothering me.)