Look at her grow... 2 month check-up

Leah took a picture of herself at the doctor's office..... We were there for the 2 month check-up.

She weighs 10 lbs, 8.5 ozs and is now 22 inches long.

The head is also growing nicely!

She talked and laughed and kicked her legs and wiggled the whole time.

Dr. D suggested that we think about getting Leah a neck for Christmas.

Leah has an entourage everywhere she goes. Even the tiny exam room at the doctor's office.

It would have been cool if I'd gotten a picture of my mom taking this picture of Julie taking a picture of Leah... but someone had to keep the little squirmer from wiggling right off the table!

Later that night she had her first dose of Tylenol... thanks to a nasty fever (another first) after her immunizations.

almost caught up!

Beware.... there are LOTS of pictures here.

This is what Leah has been doing since she turned 1 month old...

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She got a new hairdo!
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Took a few naps.

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Got to know Beans a little better.


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Went to visit Pops and Aunt Les at the office.

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Got geared up for next hunting season. So what if there's a ruffle on her bum?

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Travelled all over town with her big sister Beans.

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Celebrated Daddy's birthday!

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Took a few baths.

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Celebrated Grannie's (Nanny's?) birthday!

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Chilled with daddy on the couch.

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Spent the night at Bitty's and Pops' house while Daddy went out of town for work.

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Made her debut as a court jester.

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Drank a little too much one night...

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Had her first piece of candy.

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Partied with her cousin, Jaxon on his first birthday.

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Started learning to fly.

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Went to the movies.... now a weekly tradition.

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And just had an altogether great second month of life here with the Curleys.

Two Two Two posts in one!

There are two new ones in one day! I'm rallying!

only a month or so behind...

I feel like a total failure as a blogging mother... (that sounds kind of profane doesn't it?) But I'll try to get caught up. A few pics of Leah around her 1-month birthday.

She started smiling at us regularly around this time, but just like our other baby.... she did not hold a pose or make a face for very long, so we didn't catch many of them on film. (Film? Who uses film?)

She also went to her first restaurant (Cheesecake Factory) and her first cafeteria (she LOVES Luby's like her mama!)

She went on her first trip to the dog park and Super Target and she visited both sets of grandparent's homes.

She had her first BOTTLE! So dad finally gets to feed her once in a while.

For the first week or two everyone kept saying how much Leah looked like her daddy... but around this time it began changing... some say she looked like me, some still say Kevin, but I think she looks so much like her Aunt Leslie's baby pictures.

I called her my little Beaker because she squeaked all the time like Beaker from the Muppet's.
We also call her Granny Grunt.... what a little noise maker!

Her favorite pastime for the first month of life was streeeeeeetching. She also loved to wait until we had the diaper OFF to finish her business which gave mom extra practice at bathing a tiny newborn!

At one month old Leah began consistently sleeping a 5 hour stretch at night without waking up! So mom finally gets 4 1/2 hours of sleep at one time!!

Of course, all this is old news... she's changed so much! Every single day she is bigger and stronger and doing new things and we can't believe we love her even more!!

Who's Who?

My favorite photo of Leah so far is this one... right away it made my dad laugh saying it reminded him of some kind of cartoon animal. He couldn't remember where he'd seen the likeness, until the other day when it occurred to him... First.... Baby Leah

Then BABY SINCLAIR!

Remember the show "Dinosaurs" on TGIF in the early 90's? This baby would take a frying pan and whack the daddy dinosaur on the head and say "Not the Mama! Not the Mama!" Watch out Kevin!

Then my cousin Hayley sent me this photo of her Niece Ryan.....

Perhaps she came here from Who-ville?

I'm sending the pics into the Ellen Show...

no news....

Today Leah and I subjected ourselves to the circus that was the congressional hearing on "The AIG bonus money." I apologized to Leah already... but I get SO addicted to CSPAN and 24 hour news channels! I could make yet another long list here because I get addicted to most things, and so I work hard on limiting myself most of the time. (Its why I don't blog as much as I really want to.... I would have 10 entries a day since I pretty much always have some commentary on everything... hey, at least I know its annoying)

Just putting a few more photos out there of the little Curley-Q.


First Vaccine....

Which led immediately to first pacifier (aka "the stopper")

Girls hunt too!!

Granny Leah in her cap...

Watching a little Fox News...

Outraged at what she hears about the excessive spending in Washington!

We tried our sling that Aunt Leslie gave us.... we think we're doing it wrong...

Momma's first glass of wine in over 9 months!! YUM!! (I only got about 2 sips though... a mother's work is never done...)

The bonnet Miss Terri smocked for her.... a little big still....

These last two pics are from when she was less than 3 weeks old.... I put her down for a nap like this and went to take a shower... cute!!

And when I got out of the shower a few minutes later, this is what I found...

Oopher Pete's sake!

I love that girl. She is fun!!

I have a really LONG list of words that I love too. I LOVE words! Mainly I find medical terms that make me smile but there are some non-medical terms too…. All my favorites are really fun to say... or they look cool... or both. There are more, but these are the ones off the top of my head...

expectorate
mullet
blog
lump / lumpy
meninges
pudding
schnitzel
filibuster
fiduciary
uvula

labioplasty
megalodactyly
coitus
Adirondack
sphygmomanometer
blepharospasm
oophorectomy

Oophorectomy, one of my all time favorites, means the excision and removal of an ovary.... a surgical procedure I DID NOT have to have! Immediately following the delivery of our little bundle of Curley, my excellent surgeons moved right along to deal with Dermita. They were able to excise the tumor... show Kevin... allow him to take a photo... and save my entire ovary! I was behind the stupid curtain the whole time (well, the top half of me was) so I didn’t get to see it but Kevin got to see the whole thing and said it was pretty remarkable. He later talked to the docs in the hall and they told him that when they cut into it, it was full of hair and other gross stuff. No reported teeth, but they only made one dissecting cut in the O.R. so I guess we'll never know!

The pathology report was completed before we left the hospital and so we got to leave with Leah, both of my ovaries and the knowledge that the tumor was indeed benign.... and now completely gone! Bittersweet since my request to take her home in a jar with us was denied.

I promised I wouldn’t post icky surgical photos... but I lied! She was larger than they anticipated (Dermita, not Leah) and the photo is great... not gruesome to me at all... so I’m posting it. So if you don’t want to see a picture of my exposed uterus... don’t look down!!! (the big, white softball sized thing is the dermoid... if you look closely you can see my tiny white left ovary...)

Oh... and please let me know what you think of my favorite words...if any of them are your favorites too... and if there are any fun or funny ones on your list!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT LESLIE!!!!!