I know...bad, bad, bad mama!!! I need to write in here more! So Marley is practically all grown up now! She can totally hold her head up. Well for long periods of time anyways. She is still smiling more than ever and she has been making cute little noises for the past couple weeks now. We had her two month check-up last week and she weighed in at 12lbs 2oz and 23 1/2 inches long. That means she has gained 5 lbs and grown 3 1/4 inches!! She had to get her first shots which was so hard to watch. She was a good girl though...cried for a minute and then was okay. Besides being in the 90th percentile for both height and weight, the doctor said that she is developing perfectly and seems to be especially alert and ACTIVE for her age!!! We clarified that the pooping once every 5 days is okay. At least shes consistent I guess right! The doctor said that just means that she is soaking up all the nutrients that she gets from me and there isn't a whole lot of waste. I guess that could be seen as a good thing :) I am trying to eat healthy for her, but sometimes it's hard to eat enough calories to make breast milk so I have to eat bad stuff that has more calories and fat! Yeah, I make it sound like hard work dont I:) It is actually. You so badly want to diet right after you have a kid, but you CAN'T! So I have been eating like a pig but working out like a dog too!!! Marley and me go for a walk everyday! Usually at least 3 miles ans sometimes 6. I have also been boxing again and doing this pretty hardcore medicine ball workout! I am so lucky that my husband stays home with Marley in the morning so that I can go to the gym....i really missed boxing and all my friends there!
I took Marley to the beach with my friend Alison and her daughter Madison who is exactly 3 months older than Marley. Amazing that we live in a place that is 80 degrees and sunny in January! Marley looked so cute!!! She is such a good baby too. I swear I can take her anywhere! Other babies cry and then there is my Marley always just chillin with a smile on her face :) We go home to Oregon in exactly one month and I am SOOOOO excited for everyone to meet her for the first time! Especially my grandma Lucy...I LOVE my grandma lucy and want so badly for Marley to meet her great grandma! I will definitely take a picture of the 4 generations and post it on my blog! I also can't wait for Marley to meet her cousins and all my friends kids that she will grow up with. I am mentally preparing myself for this trip to put lots of thoughts into my head of moving back. We have really grown to love where we live but knowing we have to fly home for Marley to be with family is hard. Especially now that I have seen just how fast she is growing...every week is a huge milestone! And yes, I will admit that the free babysitting sounds fabulous :) Funny thing about that is we have so many people offer to watch Marley so that we can go out, but we can't think of anything we can't do with her or that we would rather do anyways. We have talked about wanting to go mountain bike riding which would be nice but then we realized we could go for a hike instead and bring Marley in the backpack! I just started putting her face-forward in the baby bjorn and she loves it!!! I like it because I can water the plants, do laundry, whatever and she is totally happy! I think we are going to try to go for a hike this weekend actually since the race we were all going to run in in Laguna is sold out :(
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Love the pics!! Especially the one of you two sleeping and the one of her just sitting up on the couch kinda chilling. 90th percentile, wow! Between her and Eli, Cadence might be the older cousin, but she's going to be passed up size wise by even Marley in a few months :) Glad you are still getting time to go to the gym and get some time on your own. Very important. And that you've made it back to the beach. I was just looking at our San Diego pictures the other day and told Noah I can't wait to go back.
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