It’s almost hard to believe at times, but Kirstin is officially two months old as of today. Oddly enough, her two-month doctor visit happened to work out just right so as to be right on.

So, officially she weighs in at 11lbs, 7.5ozs. She’s more or less tied with Felix on that one. He’s near twelve pounds. At two months, that puts her in about the 85th percentile (so she’s a big girl). Not bad. 🙂

She’s 23 1/2 inches in height (around the 95th percentile) and has a head circumference of 15 3/4 inches (again, around the 95th percentile). So there’s no shortage of growth and maintained largeness. 🙂 What can I say — she’s a very healthy baby. Her doctor checkup went pretty well; all looks good and she’s been cleared until she’s at four months now.

Once that was done, we waited for the shot nurse to come by and share her goodness. 🙂 Four shots, two in each leg. Beth got to be the comforter (at the head end), and I held down the legs. I probably had the more difficult job (because she’s a strong little girl), but I won’t try to compare. Many people say it’s pretty difficult to watch them go through that, but Kirstin was a little trooper. She cried (a lot, don’t get me wrong), but it got better as it went along. Fortunately, the nurse did two shots at the same time, so it was only two different ‘events’ and not four. Also, Kirstin was pretty tired at the time so the intense crying didn’t last very long (a minute or two).

Of course, the half-dose of infant’s tylenol before I brought her to the clinic worked to take a bit of the edge off as well. 🙂 Good advice there. 🙂

When it was bath time tonight, I took the band-aids off of her injection sites. They’re a little red, but look pretty good. They don’t seem to be tender at all to her; she was crying more about the removal of the band-aids than anything. But all is good and the event wasn’t too traumatic for anyone involved.

In other news, it was damn warm outside again today. I didn’t switch on the A/C in the house today, although the thought certainly crossed my mind. Alas, by the time about 7:30 rolled around tonight, it was cooling down quite nicely outside. So it’s supposed to be a bit below average for the next few days temperature wise…which will be nice. I like it when it’s a bit cooler; seems more palatable all around.

I went and picked more asparagus today; came in with another good haul. I took a few pictures of the cleaned results of three days’ worth of picking. They’re over on Flickr. Quite a bit, but that’s alright because I’ll give some away and keep some for here.

Anyway, with all that said, I’m sure I could think of more things about which I could write. However, the tired bug has really overtaken me right now and I think I’m heading for bed. So, until next time…

–MZ