Category: Poppy

Poppy is 5 months old today! She…

• weighs about 16.4 pounds
• wears size 6 months clothes
• wears size 2 diapers
• isn’t sleeping through the night again yet
• is getting her first tooth
• laughs and smiles all the time
• had to stop eating cereal because it hurt her tummy
• is starting baby food- tried sweet potatoes yesterday
• is sitting up on her own a little
• likes: chewing on her hands, toys that make rustling noises, holding onto things, looking at the tv
• dislikes: getting her face wiped

During this month’s “photo shoot,” I mentioned to Chad that Poppy looked like she could just fall right out of the chair. Seconds later, she did just that- head first toward the ground. Fortunately, I caught her… by her face.

 

 

Poppy is 4 months old today! She…

• weighs about 15.5 pounds
• wears size 6 months clothes, but I’m still squeezing her into some 3 months
• wears size 2 diapers
• decided to stop sleeping through the night the day before I went back to work
• bats at objects
• laughs on occasion
• can hold her head up and sit in a bumbo
• still will not take a pacifier very much
• likes: grabbing and holding onto toys and rattles, being bounced in the air, playing peek-a-boo
• dislikes: gas, being in unfamiliar places

Poor Poppy has had to get used to being away from her mommy this past month. We put her in childcare at church for the first time, she started going to daycare at PELC, and Mimi and Pappy even watched her for a couple days while Daddy was out of town. She is in good hands, I know, but I’m sure she’d like to go back to the old days where Mommy held her all the time. Yeah, she’d like that.

 

Poppy is 3 months old today! She…

• weighs about 13.8 pounds
• wears size 3 months clothes
• wears size 2 diapers
• sleeps through the night
• has found her hands
• coos and smiles
• can hold her head up really well
• has had her first illness (RSV)
• still will not take a pacifier very much
• likes: riding in the car, being patted on the back or bottom, baths
• dislikes: saline and the nasal aspirator

 

 

Poppy is 2 months old today! She…

• weighs about 12.2 pounds
• wears size 3 months clothes
• wears size 1 diapers
• follows people with her eyes
• sucks on her hand
• likes: sitting upright, looking at Mommy, white noise, her mobile, rattles, being held
• dislikes: gas, reflux

She plans to spend the day celebrating at Piper’s birthday party.

 

Poppy is 1 month old today! She

• weighs about 11.2 pounds
• wears newborn size clothes
• wears size 1 diapers
• has a full head of hair
• has blue eyes
• still has her umbilical cord stump
• sleeps in the newborn napper in the Pack-n-Play
• likes: being warm, riding in the car, looking around, holding things
• dislikes: sponge baths, gas, getting her nose sucked

We noticed a mark on Poppy’s finger while in the hospital, and after we brought it to the attention of our pediatrician, she checked it out and assured us it was just a birthmark. Just last week, Chad noticed that it was no longer there. Poppy sucks on her fingers sometimes, so we conclude that it must have been what one of the nursery nurses thought was a sucking blister caused by her sucking her finger in utero.