Kayleigh is now 2 weeks old and had her first well-baby checkup.

Like her older sister, Kayleigh is gaining back her birth weight slowly, but because she is consistently a content and happy baby, with plenty of wet and poopy diapers, neither her pediatrician nor I are concerned about her weight.

Abby has been a real trooper through this transition. She adores her baby sister, but there are times she is struggling to share mom and dad with Kayleigh. At times, she is extremely sensitive and easily succumbs to tears or tantrums. She had also developed a twitch (eye blinking) which is just now subsiding. We talked to her pediatrician and she assures us Abby is behaving perfectly normal and that the twitch will resolve itself if we don't make a big deal of it.

We are starting to understand Kayleigh's personality a bit these days. She is extremely mellow and content. When she's fed and dry, she will stay awake and entertain herself for a long time. Sometimes, she'll even put herself to sleep after "chattering" to herself in the crib. The thing that bothers her the most is a wet or dirty diaper. Even the slightest wet diaper will cause her to scream like she's in the worst pain imaginable! Nothing else - not even hunger - causes her to cry as much.

Kayleigh has a surprisingly large vocabulary for a 2 week old. In addition to crying, she groans, grunts, snorts, smacks, moans, clicks, rattles, sighs, and squeaks. Everything corresponds to something she wants and we're starting to learn her language!

I have really been enjoying the time spent with Kayleigh. I wish there was a way to capture that newborn, baby smell forever. She smells so good right now; I know I'll really miss that when she grows up.