Here is Mckenzie enjoying her saucer this evening! She loves it and just started this today!
All is going well here! Just been keeping busy with working and baby love! Mckenzie is still very relaxed and only gets angry when she's hungry. We just started rice cereal a little over a week ago which is going well. She gets mad sometimes if the spoon is not back in her mouth fast enough! :)
Here is a cute shot of Mckenzie on Easter :)
We're off to Oregon this weekend since I'm throwing my best friend's baby shower this weekend! So excited for it!
We took Mckenzie for her 4 month appointment today and shots.
She weighs 16lbs 10oz (95th percentile)
25 5/8" long (90th percentile)
We think she has started teething, no teeth coming through but the last few days she has been fussy, drooling, chewing on her hands and crying :( We've given her some tylenol because she was just crying and crying. We were trying all kinds of things, teething rings, frozen water in her pacifier. She needed some Tylenol to help because once it kicked in she was much more comfortable! I tried to get some teething tablets today but couldn't find any, our pedetrician said they took them off the market but thought they were back on.
She did good for her shots, it wasn't until after the 2nd shot that she started crying and we were able to calm her pretty quick. The doctor said she looks great and is nice and healthy! :)
Here is our baby love today at 4 months! Time sure has flown by! She is certainly developing her own personality! She smiles ALL the time! However, it seems that when I get the camera out she stops, put the camera away, smiles again! Today I caught a smile on camera! I am LOVING my new DSLR camera I got for my birthday! Mckenzie and I are headed to Oregon on Tuesday, works out nice that my office is in Portland so they pay for me to come out. I'm staying with my mom and Dan when I go. My mom is going to watch her Wednesday and Friday and then our friend Lisa will watch her Thursday!
Mckenzie I think is around 16 pounds, I tried weighing her in my arms and then just me, not sure how accurate it is with me holding her. We were supposed to do the 4 month appt and shots this week but with my work trip and us flying Tuesday it would have been too hectic so we go later this month.
Overall, Mckenzie is doing really well, she is still sleeping really good. I'm hoping to get her sleeping in her crib here soon! All is going well, she likes to hold stuff in her hands and doesn't mind tummy time at all! :)
Bentley is doing really well, he does wonderful around Mckenzie! Very gentle! We started him in a group puppy class here in town and is doing well with it. He didn't really like other dogs at first but is doing much better. We took him to the dog park today and he barked briefly and then ran and frolicked with all the other dogs :)
Here is a video of Mckenzie talking to me the other night! She has been discovering her voice lately. She just woke up from a nap a bit ago and was talking to herself in her crib :) She is such a happy baby!! She smiles all the time, "talks,"tummy time is usually me getting her from rolling over back onto her tummy. She really enjoys it! She also has a play mat that she is really good at kicking the toys that dangle down. We obviously put her to sleep on her back but lately she will immediately turn and lay on her side. She can be in a deep sleep and we can put her on her back and she turns to her side, several times. Most often then not I wake up to her on her side! What can you do? She is an amazing sleeper! She is sleeping a good 8 hours a night! Sometimes she wakes up and wants her pacifier and goes right back to sleep, she loves sucking on a paci!
I've been back to work since last Friday, returning has been much easier with Mckenzie here with the nanny. The nanny was sick 1 day this week which I assumed I'd have to take vacation, but my boss knew I wasn't super busy so it worked out and she was asleep a good half anyways. Mckenzie is doing well taking a bottle since she was pretty much exclusively breast fed, we would give her a bottle about once a week since I have friends that their baby wouldn't take the bottle upon returning to work. She does great, even if I feed her one. The nanny does great with Mckenzie, our plan was to do it for a few months and then slowly transition her into daycare. If we stay under $1,700 for cash wages for the nanny then we don't have to deal with a bunch of taxes since they are considered a household employee. If we consider doing it long term then we have to pay a few different type of taxes. The tax place doing our taxes can handle it all and the W2 we'd have to produce at the end of the year. I'm not sure if we'll do it long term or not because we'll be paying more in daycare expenses if we do the nanny since there are tax regulations and pay regulations. We'll see, we just started so we can see how it goes and then decide.
We went to the breastfeeding bunch which St. Luke's has once a week. It's a group where new moms, moms with 3, 6, 8, etc month olds get together and chat, feed their babies, weigh them and there is a lactation specialist that puts it on. Last Thursday she was 14 pounds 11 ounces!
I have to go to Oregon once in March and April for work and am staying the weekend too! I'm throwing my best friend's baby shower at the end of April, she just found out she's having a girl today! I've been saving all of Mckenzie's clothes in case we have another girl, so Julie's baby can get some use out of her clothes too.
We're in the process of finishing our taxes, we decided to hire someone this year with the baby and relocation expenses wanted to do it right. Thankfully they caught that my W2 was wrong, my company didn't switch me over to working IN Idaho until 8/18 when it was 8/2 so it messed with my state taxes.
All and all everything is going well, the transition back to work went much smoother then I expected.
Bentley is doing great! He does wonderful with Mckenzie, he is very gentle with her and often will stop her swing from swinging to give her a kiss on her hand. If he can reach her he will always give her a little kiss, she usually shoots him a look like what are you doing?1 LOL He is starting a puppy class next week, we did one with Dixie and was totally worth it! He is really a smart Pup! My mom & Dan got Tank from Bernadette (who we got Bentley from) who is a 4 year old show Aussie. Bernadette has been competing him with agility and what not but he is on the smaller side for a male so he wasn't really placing, she decided to keep Mojo (Bentley's brother) when she heard my mom would be interested in taking Tank since she only wanted him to go to a loving family and not just anyone. Bentley's brother Mojo is 35 pounds! Big boy! Bentley is only about 20 pounds!
We did Mckenzie's 3 month photos last weekend. Dani who did the newborn ones did a wonderful job
This rocking chair was Jeremy's when he was little. His grandma refinished it a few years back :)
I made Mckenzie a tutu, they are so expensive to buy already made, but I found out that it was way easier to make and only cost me about $7 to make!
I returned to work on Friday and our nanny did great with Mckenzie. I even heard Mckenzie laughing at one point and went to check on her, the nanny was making noises and got her laughing it was so cute! Going back to work with Mckenzie being watched in the house was a breeze since I work from home, made going back to work much easier! :)
Daddy bought Mckenzie a Valentine's card, she's been getting good at holding stuff and held onto this for a few minutes. We just went to dinner at Red Robin last night, which was yummy :)
We had professional pictures done here at the house, Dani did her newborn pictures and did a great job that I can't wait to see them. Our friend Shalane made her some more hats and a diaper cover :)
Can you tell I love my new camera? I LOVE it!
Mckenzie weighs 14 pounds now. The hospital has a breastfeeding bunch where you can go and weigh and feed your baby to see how much they're eating. She has definitely filled out. I love the rolls on her thighs and arms :)
She is still a very relaxed baby, and is sleeping great! She's now doing 7-8 hour stretches! We are trying to transition her into her crib and have been having her nap in there. She is smiling all the time now, every morning when she wakes up with a ton of smiles! She usually eats around 7am ish and sleeps until 10am regularly, eats and is up for a bit and then naps for a good hour or two. I've been noticing that around 3pm she usually crashes for a good 2-3 hour nap.
I return to work on Friday, I'm think I'm ready to go back. I absolutely have enjoyed every moment being home with her these last 13 weeks! We're going to have a nanny watching her here at the house so that'll be nice and then late spring/early summer. We'll slowly transition her into a in-home daycare that we found that was recommended by someone who takes their little boy there. So that makes going back to work a bit easier.
My family came into town this weekend and we had a wonderful visit with them :)
