Spitter

I was taking this picture to show Mark her new boat and she decided to show her spit up too!

Lanie is a fantastic baby!  Even though she looks like her Daddy's identical twin she defiantly got her need for a schedule from her mother.  Even when Lanie was brand new to the world the nurses would bring her to me every three hours to eat.  I would ask if she was fussy and the nurses said no way she is perfect then she would eat go right back down and then like clock work 3 hours later be ready to eat.  Lanie is a Baby Wise baby through and through.  I am not a person that functions well on 4-5 hours of sleep let alone 1 or 2 hours so I read that book like my life depended on it.  Thankfully my sweet girl took to the schedule and was sleeping through the night at 5 weeks old and then sleeping 12 hours at 12 weeks old.  Lanie is for the most part a very content and happy baby I mean don't get me wrong she does get fussy and she will have her days, but she is pretty great.  So I knew she was going to get back at me some how some way.  Lanie decided well since I got this eating, playing, and sleeping thing down what can I do to mess with my Mom hey lets become the  baby that spits up ALL the time.  

I love the picture above because it really just explains Lanie in a nut shell ...super cute, but be warned she will spit up on you some how some way!  When she first started she was about 4 weeks old and she was still drinking breast milk.  I state this fact because every mom out there has said she probably does it more because you have her on formula...NOPE she did this with breast milk too.  For anyone who has seen her in action you will see that it is truly just a inconvenience she thinks is funny.  Because when Lanie eats she is not fussy and when she spits up she is not fussy in fact there have been times where she will be playing on the floor and before I can get the spit up cleaned up she has rubbed her face in it which calls for even more clean up.  When I told her doctor about the problem or what I thought was a problem she told me Lanie was just a spitter nothing is wrong with her medically she just produces a lot of laundry. 

The break down:

36 burp rags (average anywhere between three or four a day sometimes more never less)

2-3 outfit changes

Blanket she lays on needs washed once a week
2-3 bibs a day(she wears these to try to stretch the use of an outfit out longer)

Mark and I have a saying "Be alive".  It was one day when Lanie spit up and I think I was sleep deprived and I needed him to toss me a burp rag and instead of saying look alive I said be alive. Little did I know that this phrase would be the most used phrase in our household these days.  So yes Lanie produces a lot of laundry, pretty much anytime anyone holds her they need to expect some spit up on them, and we never pass our daughter off to someone that wants to hold her without giving them a weapon aka her rag.  I do have to say if that is the worst that Lanie is going to give us is a couple extra loads of laundry a week I am quite alright with that : ) WE LOVE OUR LITTLE SPITTER!!!