mommy's lil' pin cushion

today was the day of hana's first round of vaccinations. i really wasn't looking forward to it. i mean, i have heard her scream over the car seat in a way that breaks my heart. one of those screams that sounds deep and gutteral... like she might throw up something big... like another small child (jon thinks it's funny when she makes those sounds - me, not so much). and in the car seat, nothing is actually poking her or causing her pain. but with the immunizations, she could have aches and pains from the injections. she could spike a fever. she could just be generally fussy... all of which would probably make me go into "ugly cry".

but actually, it wasn't that bad. although she clearly doesn't like being immunized, she apparently hates it less than her car seat because i have definatley heard her scream and carry on WAY worse over being strapped in then being given 3 shots. i'm not sure how i feel about that (the pediatrician said that a lot of parents complain that their newborns hate the car seat. apparantly, her feelings about the car seat may improve when we can turn the car seat around (when she 1 year old and 20 pounds) but that is a looong time to wait). sigh.

by the way, she now weighs 12lbs 5 ozs. (75-95th percentile). she is 24.25 inches long (95th percentile!) and her head circumference is 15.75 inches (75th percentile). she's healthy and doing very well. we are finding that she's even growing out of some of her 3-6 month clothes now even though she hasn't yet reached 3 months of age! yes, we have calls into the wnba and the avp (association of volleyball professionals? - jon loves the beach volleyball...).

anyway, the only real side effects from the shots that i have noticed thus far was some fussiness after we left the dr.'s office. it was hard to latch her on while i was trying to nurse her. we were in a restaurant and she was screaming bloody murder!!!! but i think it had to do with her laying on her side irritating the fresh injection sites. she settled down once i found a comfortable position for her. but mostly, she slept a lot this afternoon. we ran a bunch of errands in stimulating places and she slept right through it while being carried in the baby bjorn. however, the last time we loaded into the car seat to come home, she screamed her head off, spit up all OVER her clothes and created a fairly diabolical diaper. so i decided to break with tradition and give her an evening bath.

usually, we bathe her in the middle of the day because we don't want her bath to be a nighttime/bedtime ritual at this point. it's hard to find the time for that right now if she gets used to it and starts requiring it to fall asleep... but tonight, in order to wind her down from her protestations, we had a little bath. afterward, i wrapped in her lion towel. this is the first we've used this one and it's REALLY cute. (naturally, i had to take, like, 100 pictures). usually after a bath i give her a massage which she has really come to enjoy. so that really put her in a good mood. it's funny how her hair fluffs up and gets curly right after her bath. as the oils build up, it straightens out and lays flat...

our bedtime routine typically does involve us "singing" to her with the lights dim, wrapping her in a swaddle and then putting her in crib with some white noise going. and then she drifts off to sleep. so we did all of that but she was smiling so big by the time i put her down, i didn't want to leave. but i resisted because i knew she was tired. my instincts were right. she was off to sleep within 5 minutes and she didn't even cry!!!! (of course, now i'm probably going to jinx myself. )