One month stats:
Length: 21 3/4 inches 75%tile
Weight: 10 lbs. 9 oz. 90th %tile
Length: 21 3/4 inches 75%tile
Weight: 10 lbs. 9 oz. 90th %tile
We love our little Lauren. Sometimes I call her Lo-jo. Or Loey Joey. Or Lady. Or Ladybug. When Will says her name it sounds like Warren.
It is hard for me to describe her without comparing her to Will. When people ask if she is a good sleeper I think, she is compared to him. She's a better eater too. She's more content than he was/is. Do other parents of two or more have this problem?
Lauren is a very agreeable baby. She is very tolerant of Will as he is learning to be gentle. She likes to be held, but is content to sit in a swing or bouncer. She likes to lay on the ground too, but don't face her away from the action. She likes to see what is going on. And once she checks out what the rest of us are up to, she's back to sleep again. She seems to sleep a fair amount (at least...compared to Will).
Lauren is a loud sleeper. Poor girl inherited her mom's small nasal passages. She kicks and grunts a lot in her sleep too. So many times I have woken up in the night and thought she was awake, only to find her sound asleep in the pack and play.
Lauren has a small birthmark (strawberry hemangioma) on her back. She had some craddle cap in her eyebrows, but that seems to have resolved itself. Her dark blonde hair is thinning out. I've been wondering if her hair seems so much thinner because her head has grown so much, or if it is just due to falling out. She has big beautiful eyes that seem to get bluer by the day. I love it when I "catch" her gaze. She smiles occasionally and it makes me excited to see what kind of a kid she is going to be.
Maybe it's the pregnancy hormones or the holiday spirit getting to me, but I just cannot get over how blessed I am to have Lauren in my life.
Special thanks to my friend, Lauren for taking these awesome pictures of baby Lauren.
5 comments:
Love love love! I was noticing how pretty her eyes are in the second pic. She's going to be a b-e-a-utiful toddler pretty soon!
These pictures are so beautiful. And, yes, I remember comparing Meredith to Anthony all the time. She's more energetic (he was more calm), she's more friendly (he was more placid). They both slept and ate just fine, so I don't remember comparing that. but as Meredith has pointed out to me, with time my memories have faded into pleasantly blurry ones, so I wonder sometimes how accurately I remember back then. But I DO have pictures that show how beautiful all my babies were!
Lauren's a beauty. I see a lot of resemblance to Will but in a more feminine way. I have a hard time with comparing Clara to Evaline. It's hard not too, I think. And beautiful pictures. I always wanted some pretty newborn pictures of my babies. Maybe with the third...
She is gorgeous. She really is.
It's pretty much impossible to not compare siblings. We stepped it up a bit at our house; at the end of each day I tell the girls who I liked better that day. Since Elise started sleeping through the night she pretty much always wins.
Love the pictures! She's a lovely little lady. I catch myself comparing Jacob to Ally a lot - especially because I think he is an "easier" baby than she was. I don't know how much of it is real and how much is in my head. I know I feel much more competent this time around!
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