two month statistics

elenora had her two month check-up today. which meant, yes, shots. poor darling.

in the waiting room two older patients kept commenting about "isn't he such a good baby...he doesn't have much hair...look at how alert he is...he's pretty strong..." etc. when they asked me how old "he" is i finally told them "he's" a girl.

they were sweet old people.

ella weighed in at ten pounds eight ounces. and she is now twenty-four inches in length. the doctor looked her over and gave her a clean bill of health. i told him that we gave up on the cry it out method after she just kept crying for longer and longer periods of time. i asked if there was any way to help her sleep when she's tired besides the standard rock-sing-rock-swing-rock-walk-nurse-nurse-nurse. he said that's basically it.

then the nurses came with the needles. little ella had no idea what was coming so she was so calm and sweet as i sat her on my lap. then the nurses stuck her with two needles at once and added another one for good measure. ella just let out a sad little wail like "that's the worst i've been hurt in my whole life and why in the world would you do that to me?" i hugged her close and then nursed her as long as she wanted to nurse before dressing her and putting her in the car.

as i nursed her i could hear a little boy in the hall just wailing away as the nurse and his mom kept saying "no needles today!" he didn't quite believe them.

elenora fell asleep pretty quickly once she was in the car, so i went to a drive-through for a cafe latte and then she and i took a drive through the country to find byfield parish church. my mom's been pushing me to try this church for a few years now, so i thought i'd at least try to figure out where it is. it was a good drive for a rainy autumn day. ella slept soundly and i got to listen to classical music and drink my coffee.

i kind of like the rain sometimes.