Stats Update for Leila and Ellie

I took both girls to the pediatrician for check-ups today.  Here are their stats as well as a little bit about what they are up to these days.

Ellie
Height: 20.5" (.09 percentile)
Weight: 7 lbs 11.5 oz (.02 percentile)
Head circumference: 14" (.3 percentile)
It's important to note that the percentiles do not reflect on her adjusted age, which is why they are all so small.  But she is actually on the charts this time, if only just.  That's something!

*Ellie is super smiley and I love it!
*She is currently eating 4-5 oz. every 4 hours, including at night.
*She is still on oxygen but the doctor said her lungs sound alright so we aren't sure why she keeps failing her sat tests.
*She breastfeeds well but still prefers using the nipple shield to help control flow.
*Lately she hasn't been sleeping as soundly in her bassinet and has decided she likes to be held instead.  With her tubes and cords, this can be difficult, especially with Leila running around too,

Leila
Height: 39.75" (90th percentile)
Weight: 37 lbs 7 oz (90th percentile)
BMI: 16.67 (78th percentile)
Where her sister is petite, Leila is certainly not!  She is a solid, healthy girl!

*She hasn't been sleeping great since we brought Ellie home from the hospital.  Some nights it takes us 2 hours to get her down and there's no guarantee she'll stay asleep through the night.
*She loves being a big sister and helping Mom out.
*She loves to sing songs, especially in the car.  She's even started making up some of her own.
*She is dramatic and knows how/when to play on your emotions.
*She is as active as ever and doesn't much care to sit still in one place for long.
*In conjunction with the above, her first attempt at going to Sunbeams last week was a failure.  She just wanted to go play with the toys in nursery!
*She is very observant, even when you don't think she's paying attention, and she has an excellent memory.

Love my girls!

Second Christmas

Since we weren't up for travelling to California for the holidays this year, the Ziebarths came to us this weekend and we celebrated Christmas again, complete with a surprise visit from Santa (aka Darlene)!

 

It didn't take long before Leila was ready to go play out in the snow with Darlene and Jessica even though it was absolutely FREEZING!  Good thing her aunties were taking her and not Mommy!

 

Depictions of December

December 3
Leila was watching me curl my hair while I was getting ready for Jason's team Christmas party and she kept saying, "Momma, you so pretty.  Like a ballerina!"  Not sure why ballerinas are her standard for beauty, but I'll take it!  When I finished I decided to do her hair too and she actually cooperated.  It was a mini-miracle!

December 13
With Ellie still being on monitors and oxygen, we don't get out of the house much these days.  Plus Ellie requires a lot of attention and I'm working part time from home, so I'm always trying to come up with something to entertain Leila.  Today it was coloring on random boxes and taking selfies.

December 21
We got to go see a pretty incredible miniature Christmas village tonight.  The father of a lady in my home ward has put together an entire village of miniatures that takes up an entire room.  He plays a recording of a poem that highlights different aspects of the village and opens up his home for friends and neighbors to come and get in the Christmas spirit.  Leila LOVED it!  It was truly magical watching her face light up as she soaked it all in.  I couldn't even get her to turn around long enough to snap a picture.

December 22
For the times mommy can't come up with new ideas to entertain her, Leila's pretty good at entertaining herself.  Here she is hiding in her pirate's treasure chest.

Then when Daddy came home that night, he decided to amp up the pirate fun:

December 28
One of Jason's Christmas presents was the new Super Smash Bros. that let's up to 8 people play at once.  So of course we brought our Wii U over to Mom's so that we could all play.

And it didn't take long before Leila decided she wanted in on the fun too!