Look who's in the bumbo seat!

Two Months

It's already been a few weeks since Elliana turned two months, but I felt the need to post the picture here and document it anyway.  Pretty soon, I'll post her 3 month picture.  At her two month appointment, she weighed in at 12lbs 3oz, 23" long, and her head was 39.5cm.  She is in the 75th percentile for everything.  Yay!

I'd say she's doing pretty well, except for the fact that she only poops once every few days.  She seems to be pretty miserable by day 2 or 3, but there really seems like there isn't much I can do about it.  I've tried giving her prune juice and an abdominal massage but I haven't seen any improvement.  During the nights when she has pooped, she tends to sleep a little better.  But if it's been more than a day, we're up soothing her several times a night, not including her feedings.  I just keep telling myself that she will outgrow this and it will get better. Meanwhile, I'm tired.

Peyton's First Goal

Those of you who keep up with us Harrells know that Peyton is playing soccer this Spring.  This is his first time playing, and he still has a lot to learn about playing soccer.  He and his daddy have been practicing in our backyard but I think he gets intimidated on the field during a game with all of the other kids. He's not real aggressive in going after the ball.  Some of the other kids have
 obviously played before and are a lot more agile and score a lot more.  Peyton usually makes it halfway through the game before he starts losing interest, in part due to his lack of attention span, and the other due to his frustration when he hasn't scored a goal.  We just kept encouraging him to go after the ball and run fast.  So yesterday morning he was out on the field for a game.  One of the more dominant players was sitting out so I knew if he was going to have any chance of kicking the ball, much less scoring, this would be it.  The opportunity arose for him to kick it in the goal and sure enough he did!  Luckily, Patrick had the video camera rolling, so you can kind of see it here.  Use your imagination and jump up and down with the camera so you can get the full effect.  While you can clearly hear me cheering for Peyton, I think Patrick was a little excited too and had a little trouble keeping the camera still.