Ella - Day 5

Ella has a couple of "busy" days! Yesterday, we took Ella to her first doctor appointment and boy, was she not happy! As soon as we had to take her clothes off for the weighing and exam, she screamed like crazy. Yikes! But, Dr. Weinstein was great with her and gave her a clean bill of health. He also said she was a very pretty baby - duh! As if her parents didn't know that! She lost a bit of weight since her birth but at 7 lbs 8 oz at her appoint, the doctor said the weight loss was completely normal. Plus, she's been busy breast feeding so that weight should hop right back on. After the appointment, we took Ella to her new home in Reston to see the completed kitchen (see pictures in Ella gallery) which is turning out really great, we are very pleased with it. Afterwards (yes, there is more!), we took her for her first stroller ride with Cooper and got lunch at Booeymonger where we sat outside and enjoyed the nice afternoon. Whew! Big day!
Today, we slept in until 12:15pm! But after not really getting to bed until 3am, we needed the sleep. We've discovered Ella has a "witching hour" of 12am-3am where she's difficult to put to bed...all makes sense given that is when she was probably MOST active in the womb. We're working on changing that schedule around! Ella had her second Cooper walk today in her Kozy Carrier - highly recommended to any mom out there.....it's been just great. It keeps her all cuddled up and immediatly knocked her out on a nice long nap. It'll be great for Erika to use on walks with Cooper without Tim and also around the house, too.
We posted a permanent "Ella Gallery" to our blog - see to the right side column. Feel free to check it out whenever, we'll try to keep it as updated as much as possible. Enjoy our little one, we sure are!