Ingenue Mom

Lux (We haven't had our 9 month appointment yet, so these are from her 6 month appointment.) Height : 27.75 inches Weight : 16 lb 6 oz Mainly, she is just long!! Sleep Sleeps 12+ hours a night! She goes to bed around 7:15pm & wakes up around 7:30am.  Takes 2 naps a day - and she's pretty flexible on the 2nd nap as far as what time it starts. Sleeps in her crib for all naps and nighttime, but will sleep easily in a pack & play at other houses as well. Play Her favorites right now are an old calculator & remote, which I think is so funny. She loves playing with Isis or being around any of us where we are. She loves the pool! We've been going a couple of times a week and she loves getting in the little floats and just kicking her legs! She loves bath time and will kick and play in there for as long as we'll let her! She loves playing with other babies. She does an army crawl with her arms to get wherever she wants to go....

Weight : I've gained 35 pounds total. Each appointment now, I'm right at that point, not really gaining anymore. I was even a pound less last week and now back up to 35 pounds total this week. I'm happy with my weight gain. It's about 5 pounds more than I gained with Isis, but it's a second baby and it's warmer outside, so I've noticed more fluid retention and a little more swelling in my feet and legs than I had with Isis. I can still fit in a few non-maternity shirts, but with pants, there are 2 pairs of maternity capri jeans that I can fit in, a pair of maternity leggings and a couple of pairs of sweatpants that I fit in. That's it. So considering the temperature dropped today, I'm hoping she comes soon because I don't really have any warm weather pants that fit me right now! Aversions : None! Yay! Cravings : Ice cream - Graeter's Black Raspberry Chip or anything from Orange Leaf. I want it all the time. Not indulging myself, th...

Weight: At 30 weeks, I've gained about 25 pounds. This is more than I had gained at this point with Isis, but still not bad in my opinion! I'm on track to gain about 35 this pregnancy. I'm starting to feel heavier lately. I've reached that point where I just feel bigger in general. I can only wear maternity pants, which is different than how it was with Isis. With Isis, I could wear my regular jeans with a hair band tied around the button. I used the Bella Band a lot with that pregnancy. This time, I feel like my hips & thighs are a little bigger than they were with Isis because my regular pants just don't fit at the top of my legs as well. I've got several pairs of maternity pants and shorts, so I'm wearing those! I am mainly wearing regular shirts, not maternity shirts. Most of my clothes are pretty stretchy, so that plays in my favor right now! We'll see how it goes as I continue to get bigger these last 10 weeks. Aversions: Considering t...

General Stats: 28 lbs, 35.75 inches tall   Movement: Obviously as a 2-year old, this is becoming a less interesting update. Isis loves to run & dance & she is absolutely a little climber! She loves to climb up on Lewis' weightlifting equipment. I swear she can scale some of that stuff! I have to keep an eye on her or she'll be climbing up somewhere she shouldn't! She is starting to be able to walk up and down the stairs like normal, alternating legs. But she doesn't do this all the time. She has had a couple of tumbles down the last couple of stairs if she starts going too fast, so she's not yet going down stairs alone.   Food: For the most part, she is an excellent eater! We were told that she would start to eat less this year, but we are still amazed at how much she can put away! She usually eats well for breakfast and lunch and then dinner is hit or miss. If we're eating Mexican food or pizza, she can throw down at dinner. But if it...

So this is interesting & I don't totally understand what it all means - I need to ask Lynda - but my visits & page views went down, but people are apparently spending a little more time on my site when they do visit. My website grade , blog grade & Alexa rank are better this week. I have a lot more Twitter followers & a higher Twitter grade . I think I need to publicize my Facebook page a little more. Not sure how you can get less views & your grade & rank go up?? Oh well, I'm having fun with the 31DBBB & I feel like I'm getting a lot out of it already! How are your stats?? And please "Like" Ingenue Mom on Facebook if you haven't already!!

Jennifer at She's a Fit Chick made this great Excel Site Stat Tracker to use throughout the 31DBBB challenge if you want to keep track of your stats. I think it's great for that, but also just for keeping track of things in general. I may want to keep up with this every other week or something as I continue with my blog after the challenge. Lynda at Digital Woe wrote up a great tutorial on how to find these different stats! I got all mine for the week of July 9 - July 17, so here they are... I know they'll change anyway as we go through the challenge just from blogging, so it won't all be related to the challenge, but it can't hurt!! Also - I have no idea how to figure out my RSS subscribers because I don't use Feedburner to present it. The button isn't linked to Feedburner in any way. Oh well. I'm excited to see how things go!! Have you looked at your stats? I'm really looking forward to following along with those of you who I know read my ...