2 month birthday!

making breakfast- eggs, bagels and bacon over the fire- yummm!
Grandpa Steve hanging out with Coranelle while we ate breakfast
making mint chocolate ice cream in the ice cream ball
hanging out in the motorhome with gammadele
our 17 mile bike ride around twin lakes on the Colorado trail. A hard ride for my first ride -post baby.
We took a dip in the lake to cool off during the bike ride. It was so fun to have Rachael to bike with! She rocks on a mtn. bike and now I have another girl that will bike with me.
The lovely engaged couple. They are so fun and we are so happy for them! Rachael is going to make an awesome sister and auntie!
Proud daddy in the am. His little girl slept well in her plastic box!
Waking up with my precious family in the tent.
Love this photo! All smiles and sporting her buff hatt!
This was Coranelle's bed- a clear plastic tupperware. She loved it. She slept great! 7 hours one night, 7 1/2 the other. We bundled her up in 3 blankets and a hat and she must have loved the mountain air and the sound of the rain. She was quite a trooper!
Auntie Rachael has a magic touch with Coranelle. So fun to hold a peaceful, sleeping baby!
Gammadele hanging with Coranelle, blocking the sun and swatting away the mosquitos. Grandma and Grandpa had a good time with their granddaughter!


So, Coranelle turned 2 months old on Sunday. She'll be 9 weeks old tomorrow! To celebrate, we went on a family camping trip. We took Coranelle up to Twin Lakes, Colorado- just past Leadville. It was gorgeous and we had a blast. We stayed at Perry Peaks campground with my mom, Steve, Rachael and Stefan. It was a great, first trip for Coranelle. It was wonderful to have lots of people there so that Coranelle could be passed off from one person to another. She was a little fussy in the evenings, but between the 6 of us, someone could always walk/bounce/cuddle her in order to soothe her. Saturday, Mom and Steve offered to take Coranelle so that we could go bike riding. It was so fun to be able to take off on our bikes and not have to worry about her. We knew she was in great hands. So, while we rode, Coranelle went hiking with her grandparents. Steve carried her in the baby bjorn and she did awesome. They also fed her a bottle of pumped breast milk. I hear she was really happy and playful! Meanwhile, I took my first bike ride since March. Whew! It was a hard one, but gorgeous. We rode down into Twin Lakes from our campground and all the way around the lakes and back up on single track (the Colorado Trail). We stopped at mile 6 and jumped in the lake to cool off. So fun! It was a beautiful and fun trail and I loved having Rachael to ride with. We both got tuckered out by about mile 13 and struggled through the end. It was great to have another girl with me so that I wasn't the only one playing catch up. Ryan and I are so glad that she and Stefan have each other! They are such a perfect match for each other and seem to be so happy.
Saturday afternoon, we took bucket baths after getting so sweaty from our ride. It was cloudy and cold, so the water from the drinking pump in the campground was extremely cold. But, it felt good to be clean. We also took the ice cream ball and made vanilla ice cream with mint dark chocolate chunks. It was a delicious treat. We then enjoyed hours of rain and hung out reading, chatting and playing games. Coranelle was enjoying all the attention and giving lots of smiles. She has been a lot of places and seen lots of people in her 2 months! She enjoyed a fire and making eggs, bacon, and toasted bagels and muffins for breakfast. Unfortunately, I-70 was like a parking lot on the way home, so we were all a little restless after a 2 1/2 hour drive took us 5 hours. We had to stop and feed her in Idaho Springs, but she did awesome!
Today, she went into the pediatrician to get her shots. Ugggg! Not fun. She was crying the whole time we were there- way before the shots. She got herself so worked up, it was hard to hear our doctor. She's doing well. She's got some eczema and craddle cap, but nothing too serious. She is gaining weight at a good rate, but is still very long and skinny. She now weighs 9 pounds 12 ounces. That puts her in the 22nd percentile. (She was born at 6 pounds, 6 ounces). She is 23 inches long, which puts her in the 75th percentile. Her head is 15, 33rd percentile. So, a thin child. Her weight to height ratio makes her underweight, but since she is gaining weight at a good rate, we have nothing to worry about. It is so funny- how could I (someone short and round/curvy) have a tall, skinny baby? It will be so interesting to see what a perfect, gorgeous girl she grows up to be! For her shots, she got HepB, HIB, Polio, DTAP, Prevnar, and Rototeq. Two shots- one in each thigh and an oral and she really screamed! Whew! That is hard to watch! But, we cuddled and she calmed down- nursed it out when we got home. Now she is sleeping soundly. I hope she doesn't break a fever or become too fussy in the next day or so. Man, it's hard to watch someone put your baby in pain. But, much better to get the shot and be a little sore and get any of those horrible diseases/ viruses.
Not much else to report. Coranelle is doing great and becoming more attentive and more fun to play with. We are enjoying her so much!