Well, it's been a month and I know I haven't been very good at updating. My excuse is a C-section incision to heal from and a newborn with a yeast infection that cries and fusses and wants to be held all the time!
Here's the updates:
Jared turned 25! I am so grateful for this wonderful man in my life, even more so now that we have a daughter. Saturday I was taking a bath & reading (Jared was taking care of Kaitlyn so I could have a relaxing morning) and while I was there, I heard Jared singing to Kaitlyn. The BYU fight song, I Am a Child of God, and World of Imagination were among the soundtrack. She loves his voice. Kaitlyn has become a great football watching buddy with Dad...too bad the Cougars decided not to play on Saturday.
Anyway, Mom Brown was in town for a week, taking care of us and playing with Kaitlyn. We are so grateful for her help, meals, love, and advice. While Mom was here I took Kaitlyn to the Dr for the first and second time. She hadn't made it back up to her birth weight at 2 weeks, and by 2 1/2 she had a very groggy morning where she didn't wake up much and didn't eat hardly anything. Also, she had the beginnings of a very nasty diaper rash. The doctor suggested measuring everything she ate, which meant that I go up at 2 to pump, then feed her. Long nights. He also suggested a cream for her rash, since desitin hadn't been working. The following Monday Mom Brown had gone home and Mom Zaelit had a birthday. She wanted to spend it with her family at the zoo - Kaitlyn's first trip. I don't think she cared much. Later in the week I took Kaitlyn back to the dr to be weighed and to discuss her rash, which had started bleeding. I did some research and was pretty sure that it was a yeast infection. Her weight was up - yay!, and the dr (a different one this time) said he was pretty sure it wasn't an infection and suggested a different cream. Three days later she was crying whenever she filled her diaper and it was still bleeding, I took her back, asked specifically about a yeast infection. The dr once again said no, and suggested yet another cream. Two days later it still wasn't better, so I called and wanted to see the first dr again. They double booked him and fit us in, thank heavens. He gave us two perscriptions and a different cream (seriously, I feel like a lotion store here). Thank heavens, it's started clearing up and Kaitlyn has been back to her usual sweet and smiley self.
That's the update. Kaitlyn weighed 8 lbs 15 oz on her one month birthday and has loved all the attention she has gotten from family. Especially the visit from Great Grandma Brown. She has also started smiling at us, especially when we're singing. Her favorites: Dancing Queen, World of Imagination, and California Girls.
With Grandma Brown
Cousin Thomas came to visit
Great Grandma Brown
Grandma Zaelit
Family photo
Go Cougars
At the Zoo
Kaitlyn turned two months old last week. She's growing so much! She weighs 10 lbs 7.5 oz. and is 21.5 inches long. Kaitlyn is smiling all the time now, and we love it. She also loves to spend time talking to us, or just about anyone who will listen. She has rolled over three times; but I don't think she's figured out how to do it - so far it's just been an accident and she's looked very surprised at how she got there. She's also started paying attention to toys. Her favorite, by far, is a small mickey plush that my mom and dad bought in Disneyland. Here's Kaitlyn smiling after a diaper change: 
When I was little, my cousins and I all had cabbage patch kids. As soon as my dad found out that Kaitlyn was a girl he went out and bought Kaitlyn her very own cabbage patch kid. There are pictures of me when I was smaller than my cabbage patch. I'll try to find a picture and post it. Kaitlyn wasn't ever smaller than Starr Margie (all cabbage patch kids have funky names, mine was Adella Carrie), but you can see in the pictures how much she's grown since we brought her home from the hospital:
