Scarlett Stats....

Name: Scarlett Anna Ritchie
Birth date: July 17, 2009
Birth Weight: 8lbs 10oz
Time: 2:58pm
Birth length: 21 inches (at hospital) 19 inches a few days later at her doctors LOL!!
Weight leaving hospital: 8lbs 3oz
Apgar: 9/9
Size Percentile: 50th
Hair colour: dark, full
Eye colour: blue
First smile: just over 4 weeks
First giggle: just over 7 weeks
Hair: still dark, less and less!
Eye colour now: light blue
Today's weight (Sept.14th): 13lbs 8 oz.
Size Percentile now: 98th
What is she doing today?
Scarlett is now loving to smile and giggle when we speak to her. She does not love to be held. She likes to sit in the hushamok, or sit up on someones lap and watch what's happening around her. Generally very independant. I sometimes wish she was more cuddly!
Scarlett never cries for any other reason than hunger. That's pretty much every 4 hours in the day. And when she's ready, she lets it out!! She feeds quickly and is asleep by the time the bottle in finished. She is eating about 5oz right now per feeding. She feeds 4-5 times per day.
Sleeping is Scarlett's speciality. From the beginning she slept 4-5 hours around the clock with quick feeding breaks. At about 5 weeks she went 6 hours at night without being fed. Within about a week this became 8 or 9 hours. Last night for example she went to bed at 8pm, and woke up at 7am. Dr.L has told us not to wake her up for feedings from very early on, since she was gaining weight quite quickly, and we were happy to comply!!
Towards the end of last week we noticed that we don't need to hold up her head any more, and this is really nice, since she's too heavy for me to hold otherwise. Now I can sit her up on my leg, and it's so nice for me!! I can actually hold her, without getting breathless.
Scarlett's fave time is the bath, by far. She loves it!! Below is a picture of a recent bath. Martin is the bath man. I get the chance to bathe her sometimes but it's often too much work for me, so I watch or wait for her to be finished and kiss her clean head. So cute!!

Martin likes his after work time with his daughter, so I am happy to give them that time together. It's very cute!!

Scarlett has a few favourite things. She has a lady bug that plays 'You are my sunshine' that is like baby heroin. She is totally addicted to it. When we play it, she freezes and listens and smiles to her little friend. It's super funny, may be more for us than for her. Her other fave things are her new comforter, which might explain he 11 hour nights. It's pretty comfy and she's in love, we can tell. A close 3rd, for sure, is her babcia, or the milk lady. Scarlett knows that when my mom is in sight, the milk is on it's way. And let's face it, our kid is all about the milk!! Makes me a little jealous, but whatever makes our Scarlett happy is good enough for me.

Below is a picture of Scarlett and I having some rest time together. This is from August 30th.

One of the most fun that I've had with Scarlett was when her and I took a bath together. We did so in our ensuite bath, so it's a large jet tub, which for Scarlett was like a swimming pool. She loved it, and so did I. It made her so light for me to hold, that I could really enjoy her. She swam and swam, and then got really hungry and ate up a storm. It was amazing. Below are a few classic pics from that. I only put these on my blog, not my facebook, as I am sorta in them, and would not want those just to pop up on someones wall =)

As you can see, she is one happy, and one chunky little monster in the tub!!So there you have it, more than you ever wanted to know about our Scarlett. She is such a joy, such a pleasure, and since I rarely write specifics about her, I thought I would do so in this post.