Pork chop had her 2-month check up today. She was 11 pounds, 5.5 ounces and 22.75 inches. Her stats made me check the other kids' electronic charts, and except for Coop who was 13 pounds and 2 feet long, the rest of them were within a half ounce and a half inch of Minnie.
She had vaccines-- always a bummer-- and now I am just sitting here compulsively feeling her forehead to see if she spikes a fever. Ah, postpartum anxiety.
TWO MONTHS OLD!
Sometimes I feel like this is all a dream. How can it be true that we get to be with the world's sweetest baby all day every day? And because she is not our first baby, we know that all the annoying phases like NEVER NAPPING AT ALL THE WHOLE DAY FOR EXAMPLE will pass. Or, like, she has wicked baby acne, but it's not even a little bit worrisome. This baby is the best thing that has ever happened to us, and we are so happy it is kind of gross. Don't we know there's a pandemic raging outside and a disaster of an election and a SCOTUS nominee in a kangaroo court?!?! We do, of course, but babies make you live in the moment and every moment is an absolute delight.
HER HAIR! OMG. It just goes like this and I LOVE IT.
... I was pretty sure I was dying,
But today, a nurse at my OB's office called with those magic words the mole is normal.
I will spare you the details and just use a phrase I hope I never encounter again: vulvar biopsy.
zOMG.
So! Pictures! Because there is an 8-week-old baby after all.
Minnie is 7 weeks old ALREADY?!?
I don't have much to say besides that she is THE ABSOLUTE SWEETEST.
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R.Sloan: A badly written Daisy Jones wannabe. Hated it.
Don't Turn Around by Jessica Barry A preachy thriller. Weird combo.
Stray by Stephanie Dandler: Sweetbitter was SO good I had to read this memoir which was... not quite as good.
Beauty in the Breaking by Michele Harper: This memoir by an ER doc was terrific.
You Can't Catch Me by Catherine McKenzie: Great thriller.
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin: A great thriller.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins: I DO love The Hunger Games and would for sure read 2 more early Snow books.
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle: READ this! Loved it-- a little cheesy but that's what I need right now, apparently.
The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward: Loved this one so much. I love dysfunctional family vacay books.
Followers by Megan Angelo: I love dystopian social media media, and this book is GREAT.
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi: This is a lovely and perfect book.
