Sweatin to the oldies?

Today I discovered that the little peanut's legs are finally big enough for all the leg warmers we have for her!  Jeannie gave us her first pair... and I loved them, but believe it or not, SCHUB was the one who thought they were so cool that he registered for them. And when we didn't get them from our registry, he bought some. And when we couldn't find any brown ones, he MADE some (you heard me right) out of a pair of men's brown dress socks.

So anyway, today we tried them on her again and her legs finally have some chunk to them (she hit the big 1-0 lbs this past week). Don't you think she looks like a little Jane Fonda with her leg warmers and head band??  I love to put a headband on her, even when we're just hanging out at home b/c she is just so stinkin' cute in them!

I think she likes them... don't you?

 

Then I thought her feet might be cold so I put on these super-cool boots that Brooke gave her for Christmas.

 
Then we went downstairs and she sat in her bumbo and let me take her picture for approximately 2 minutes before she started screaming in an effort to politely inform me that she was tired and needed to be put to bed.

Santa Baby

Outfit courtesy of Gram :-)

2 months

We went in for Adelaide's 2 month check up on Monday. Here's where she stands:

22 inches long (50th percentile)
9 lbs 1 oz ("somewhere between the 10th and 25th percentile"... which probably means like the 11th, but the nurse was trying to make us feel good about our little peanut.)

We have been having a hard time feeding her for over 2 weeks now. She just all of a sudden started more or less refusing to nurse... like, she would nurse for 3 minutes and then be done and then scream and scream if I tried to put her back on. You would have thought i was poisoning her. At first we thought it was just that she was starting to like the bottle better for some reason and that we just needed to retrain her to nurse. But after 2 weeks of still not eating, i don't think that was the problem. The doctor seems to think that her reflux is so bad that she has just developed a negative association with nursing and probably her throat burning. Soooo, we now have to feed her every 3 hours - even during the night, which is awful b/c she was sleeping like 7 hrs at a time.  We have to make sure she get 4-5oz, so we either give her a bottle, or I nurse as long as I can (she'll rarely go more than 5 min) and then top her off with 2oz or so.  Considering she's probably only been getting 2oz at a time for several weeks, it is taking FOREVER to get her to drink 4oz, so it has made for a long couple of days. And we've only been doing it for 2 days!  We go back for a weight check on Monday.

Other than that this girl is happy and healthy. She is really following lots of things with her eyes, she is smiling a ton and squealing a little, she is steadying her head when I sit her up, and she sleeps like a champ. 

There you go for the baby update!  Here she is napping on the floor looking as sweet as ever this morning :-)

First time in the Bumbo

Please excuse the bedhead and the spit up in the corners of her mouth... and yes, our 7 week old baby gets bedhead. We literally have to brush it.  I think by next week I'll be braiding it.

 Once again, I couldn't pick just one. 

Can't get enough

This is a boring post. But people really just like to look at pictures anyway, right?  I mean, I know all these pictures look alike. But she is just so cute that I couldn't just pick one. Sorry. You will just have to look at all 4 absolutely, completely adorable pictures of the homegirl.

We had a happy thanksgiving

Tummy Time or Snuggle Time?

I tried to lie Adelaide down for some tummy time this afternoon.  Nacho got confused and thought it was snuggle time. 

 

Adelaide promptly fell asleep.

Polka dot elephant

Dear Broo,

I love my polka dot elephant onesie...

from my head...

 to my toes!

 

Thank you!!

stats

It seems weird to post something like this without a picture to go with it, but I just don't have that all together right now.

Adelaide turned 1 month old last Friday! Crazy. And fun.  She is adorable. Just trust me on that since I'm not posting a picture. We went to the pediatrician and here's where she stands:

• 8 lbs 4oz (25th percentile... this is right on track. At 2 weeks she was 7lbs 6oz, so she gained 14 ounces in 14 days! go girl.)
• 21 inches long (50th percentile... who knew I could have a child of average height?!)
• 14 inch head circumference (25th percentile... but who really cares about the head circumference???)

She is starting to smile and "coo" a little bit - especially in the mornings after a good night sleep and her first feeding and diaper change of the day.

She loves to watch the mobile above her swing and the look at the tissue paper pom pom thingies above the changing table.

She took her first bottle from Daddy Schub last night.  Homegirl downed like 5 ounces in less than 10 minutes.  It's good to know that she will take a bottle so that Schub can feed her if he wants or we can give a bottle to a babysitter or give her a bottle while we're out doing errands or something if we needed to.

Last night she slept 6 hours at one stretch (with assistance from the swing, which we started putting her in to sleep a couple weeks ago). It was awesome and I hope she keeps up the good work.

She still has lots and lots of hair, beautiful eyes and skin, and I love to watch her stretch, and I kind of love it when she starts to cry and her little bottom lip starts to poke out.

Sup dawg

 

brown corduroy

Thank you for my adorable outfit Aunt Fran and Kristin!

It's one of my favorites

I love it!

 

I promise... I really do love it!

Adelaide's Baptism

Sweet Adelaide got baptized this past Sunday.  She got to wear the little gown that Jason wore when he was baptized and she of course looked beautiful.  We were so so glad to have both our parents there and... Jason's aunt Meredith surprised us and came with his parents from NC so that she could see both the baptism and Jason's ordination later that evening.  It was a really special morning for our new little family!

 

Adelaide was great (homegirl slept through the whole thing). 

No more denying it

It's official. I'm a real, bonified pastor's wife. I used to just be a "seminary wife" and then I could say I was just an "intern's wife," but now I'm a real live pastor's wife.  You know, the kind that bakes bread and does crafts with children all day?  Just kidding :-)

OK... so this post isn't about me at all! It's about my incredible husband, Jason Christopher Schubert, and the fact that he is an official PASTOR.  After approximately a bajillion of hours studying, 6 written tests, several papers (ones that he had to take the time to write b/c none of his from seminary fit the criteria), several face-to-face interviews, and a day of being grilled by the elders of the presbytary (4 days after his first child was born, i might add)... Jason passed it all and was seen fit to shepherd God's people and accept his call as Associate Pastor at Grace Presbyterian Church.

My parents, Jason's parents, and his aunt Meredith were all in town to attend his installation service (and Adelaide's baptism that morning, of course). AND some of our neighbors, one of his friends from NC State who lives in DC, and some friends that we met in our birthing class (random, right?  Their baby girl was due around the same time as ours so we were in two classes with them at the hospital... turns out he is a pastor like 20 minutes away. We are all friends now) ALL came to see Schub become a pastor.

The service was really awesome.  Neither of us had ever been to an ordination service before.  There was a charge to Jason and also a charge to the congregation.  We sang hymns that Jason had picked out.  All the pastors/elders that we were there (from our church and from others in the presbytary) laid hands on him to pray for him as he enters the ministry and takes all the responsibility and joys and trials that come along with that  And then Jason got to give the benediction at the end of the service.  There was a really nice reception afterwards.

 

 

(these BEAUTIFUL flowers are now taking up residency on my dining room table!)
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We were overwhelmed by the number of people from our congregation who were there to support and encourage him. We are excited and challenged by what a lifetime of ministry is going to look like in the church.  I know that by God's grace, Jason will do a wonderful job of leading and encouraging and challenging and teaching and shepherding God's people; it is what he has been called to do!

Congratulations my love!! I am so so so proud of you!!!