2 Month Checkup and Sore Throat

Yesterday I took Layla to the pediatrician for her 2 month checkup. I had all 3 of my girls in tow since Alyssa was home sick that day from school with a sore throat and a fever. I decided since I was already going to the pediatrician, we might as well make a girls party out of the event right!?
Yeah right! Any mother of small children know that it is always painful to take them to the doctor. But I knew I needed to get her tested for strep throat before I could send her back to school. So I used this doctor appointment as an excuse to dress them in their matching sisters tee-shirts and do their hair all cute in matching bows. This is what I do when I go somewhere with all 3 girls together.
Good news of the appointment were that Alyssa tested negative for strep throat, Layla was healthy, and nobody threw up in the doctor waiting room, as happened in previous visits.
Bad news of the appointment were that Alyssa did test positive for an infected red throat, Layla had to get her 3 shots in her "fatty part of her leg" as Alyssa calls it, and Bella ran off from me in the parking lot and almost gave me a heart attack. It is not so easy to catch a fast little toddler while keeping the other 2 girls close by.
After we survived the doctor appointment, Alyssa's throat was really hurting her, and I knew it really was because she didn't even want to go play at the park. She just wanted to go home and rest. So as any good mother does, I used my daughter's sore throat as an excuse to stop by the drive thru at Braum's and we got icecream cones for everyone. Awww....don't we all feel better now!?

Layla's 2 month stats:
23 inches long -72 percentile
13.1 pounds - 93 percentile

We grow them big and strong in our home! Rob always jokes with me that my milk must be like drinking sweetened condensed milk. Hey, I take that as a compliment, that stuff is yummy!


The girls enjoying a movie evening together at home. We rented the new Tinkerbell movie. They LOVED it!

Finding her thumb and catching some ZZZ...

I loathe the mothers that say, "my baby was sleeping through the night since he/she was a month old." They say it so calm and normal like it is no biggie deal. As they say it, I actually can feel myself fighting to not roll my eyes and say something naughty.
I have been lucky to have been blessed with 3 beautiful (I know I am biase) girls, who have all been basically healthy since day one. That in and of itself is no small blessing. I know this now that I am older and more educated on the subject of having babies.
However, I have not been blessed with babies who sleep easily at night. None of my girls have slept through the night before about 6 months or more.
Alyssa had severe colic until about 9 months old. We lived on about 3 hours or less sleep for about that long. We would walk the floors of our old home with her til all hours of the day and night with her crying in pain. It was HARD!
Bella was MUCH easier on us and a much better sleeper. But she would still get up every few hours to nurse and then go back to sleep pretty quickly after. She never really slept through the night completely until 6 months old.
Layla is now 2 months old. From what I have seen so far, she is not our hardest baby, neither our easiest baby. Unlucky for us, she has her most "fussy time" in the evening hours. So I have officially been running on little to no sleep for about 3 months now. (the last month of this pregnancy I got very little sleep)
The other night I awoke to sounds of Layla starting to wake up and cry, and then she started sucking on something. I leaned over her crib and noticed that she was sucking on her thumb. Even though it was very early in the morning, I had to grab my camera and take a picture. I have never had a thumb sucker before. I know it isn't a great habit to form, but it was darn cute. She had put herself back to sleep on her own sucking her thumb, so I crawled back into my cozy bed and fell immediately back to sleep too. That night I got about 6.5 hours of sleep straight! The next morning I woke up feeling a lot less drained and cranky. Now I can see why all those moms seemed so darn proud to tell everyone that their babies were sleeping through the night.
IT IS NICE!