Easter

My favorite part about Easter is the clothes! I love an excuse for a new outfit, and this year I had a reason to get all of use something matching. As it is, in good ole Southern tradition to have new outfits and to be matching. I tried and tried to convince Brody to let me go all out, but he resisted. I did convince him to do matching bow ties.

I looked and looked, but couldn't find bow ties in our budget, so I made some. I also got bit by a sewing bug and ended up sewing a pair of shoes for Zelner (I actually made two right shoes, but for my first pair of shoe I think I did all right.) and a skirt for me (which I made a completely from scratch! It turned out all right, but was too big come the day to wear it!)

2 months

Zelner had his 2 month appointment on the

He is growing strong and he got his first shot.

I know this is a very controversial subject, but we have decided to delay most vaccines. There are a few vaccines that we will be skipping, but those are ones which if we had to start by week 15. We are doing the DtAP on schedule, because Pertussis is very prevalent in our area. We are considering delaying 6 months, but might do longer. We will have him fully immunized before going to pre-school!

2 Month Stats

11 pounds (28th percentile) 

23 inches long (47th percentile)

38 1/3 cm in head circumference (15.1 inches, 12 percentile)

Milestones

Zelner is one smiley baby!

He loves being worn, we sure love our Moby right now!

He also loves being read to, and looking at bright colors. Yellow seems to be his favorite!

Favorite toy: Metal Mason Jar Ring

Brody loves snuggling him in the wrap.

Enjoying his first baseball game!

Smiles!

Morning smiles

Growing and fitting better in his totally awesome carseat.

Post bath laughs

Favorite toy, mason jar ring.

Back to work...

I went back to work on the eighth of April. It has been bittersweet. I enjoy having something to do, and to get me out of the house. BUT I miss my alone time with Zelner. We will have to see how long it lasts.

This girls are super excited for me to be back though and the even made this little bed for Zelner to sleep in.

Eliza with Zelner, about one month.

St. Patty's

We celebrate St. Patrick's Day in our home every year. I like to celebrate the smaller holidays, just as much as the big ones.  We usually have a part of some kind, but since we had a month old, we kept it quiet. We did manage to get a picture of us in our green.

What you done see, is how Brody was wearing orange pants too.

5 Weeks

Zelner had an appointment at 5 weeks instead of at 4 because the doctor was on vacation... Weird that doctors have lives too!

We did take pictures on Wednesday, the one month mark though. We also weighed and measured him, and surprisingly our measurements were not that far from the doctor's.

Zelner is now officially 9.2 pounds (22 percentile), is 22 inches long (53 percentile) and his head circumference is 36.5 cm (14.4 inches, 11 percentile).

When we measured he was 21.5 inches long and 9.6 pounds (fully dressed).

Milestones

He is getting better at falling asleep, but not so much at STAYING asleep.

 Starting to be too long for my newborn clothes, but 0-3 month clothes don't quite fit either.

The newborn diapers, still fit, but he is liking the small gDiapers much better.

Loves to hold my head up, and hate having it covered.

Loves being in the Moby, and sometimes will scream and scream until someone puts him in it. (Holding him tight and close doesn't cut it.)

I love to put shoes on him, the jury is out on whether he likes them too.