A Post About... Ivy!

Our little Halloweeny Bee


Poor Ivy. I realized the other day that she has been rather neglected as far as blogging goes. The last post devoted to her was... her birth. Oh wait... There was also that rant about newborns...
Don't think for a second that she is forgotten outside of the blogosphere too. This is kid is either in the Baby Bjorn or held in our arms 20 hrs of the day - no joke. I guess it's just the way things go when you have your second baby. Your first child had a picture to document their every breath for the first year. Your second isn't loved any less - you just don't have the time. Ivy is also a super fussy baby and that makes it a little more challenging to get "cute" pictures. She just hit three months this past weekend, though, so I am feeling very hopeful about the future and the end of colic. Despite her colic she really is a charming little girl. She has TWO dimples when she smiles and she started laughing out loud this week! She has HUGE blue eyes that absolutely twinkle with that wonderful "just left heaven" light. She is super chatty and is always making the funniest facial expressions while she converses with you.
She is no where near the chunk of love that Lilia was/ is, but she is no slouch either. Sweet squeezable cheeks R us. We joke that my milk is mostly cream because she only nurses on one side every 3 to 4 hours during the day and she will go 6 hours at night sometimes. Speaking of which - she is a MUCH better sleeper than Lilia. That could just be our co-sleeping arrangement, though. We threw all of the books away with this kid and I am so glad that we did. They never helped much anyway.
Ivy is also very strong. She has been "army crawling" since day one. She will literally scoot herself across the floor at least a foot before she gives up just by pushing out with her feet. She started rolling over almost a week ago. No doubt she wants to keep up with her big sister. That or she wants to protect herself...

I'm sure you have noticed her strawberry hemangioma on her forehead. We are monitoring it with the pediatrician, but for now have decided to let it alone. It is very slow growing and should actually fade by the time she reaches school age. These hemangiomas are benign and are usually not treated unless they obstruct an airway or vision. Almost all of them resolve on their own. It doesn't bother me nearly as much as I thought it would. In fact I think it is rather sweet how taken Lilia is with Ivy's "birthmark." When she kisses Ivy before heading off to bed she always aims for the "birthmark."
We thought that Ivy's dark hair would fall out a few days after she was born, but it hasn't. It has lightened up a little, but it is as thick as it ever was. She looks SO completely different than Lilia, but they are both just gorgeous to me. I had such a hard time the first couple of weeks when she cried around the clock, but as the colic gets better and better each day I am completely smitten with this little girl. She is super snuggly and she always looks at me while she nurses and usually cracks a smile or two as well. This of course causes milk to spray her in the face or pool in my lap, but we have both decided it is well worth it :)