I love watching her grow and do new things, we are definitely blessed. She is a really good baby. She doesn't get really fussy, she's just a good baby. Although she does have her moments, don't get me wrong. We like to call 10 o'clock her "bewitching" hour, she's pretty much just a hot mess for a half an hour to an hour. There's nothing you can do for her except just love her and let her cry it out. I mean she's so good all day, sometimes I think she just needs to cry, to make some noise.
Right now she's constantly kicking her feet, always moving her hands/arms. She's starting to find her hands, and just look at them for a little while. She's getting better with her head, holds it more steady now. We try to do tummy time (when mom remembers) but she's kind of a bum. I'll put her on her tummy and she just lays there. Makes no attempts at all to raise her head, she just finds her hands and tries to eat that instead. Exhibit A:
We're trying to get on some what of a schedule, which so far is going pretty well. (And by so far, I mean the past three days.) Still a little unpredictable, but hey she's only two months old. She loves her baths and loves to attempt to eat her hands. I love that she's more awake more, she's very observant and loves to just watch. She likes to be in the kitchen with me, I'm not sure if she just likes to watch me move or likes to listen to the water when I do the dishes, but whenever I look over and talk to her she's always smiling. She absolutely loves the ceiling fan, we like to say it's her best friend. She's constantly looking at it and gets instant smiles when dad spins it for her. One of my favorite things is that she's smiling for real now. When we talk to her, she smiles and I love it!
Daddy gets the biggest smiles!
She sleeps in our room still, she hasn't slept through the night yet but really she only wakes up once to eat, so that's good for me. I'm planning on transitioning her to her room when she's three months old, hopefully I can figure out how to get her to last through the night by then. Also trying to work on getting a routine for bedtime. She takes her bath in the morning so we won't be doing that, currently she pretty much goes to bed around 10:30, which isn't good. I'd like her to "go to bed" at around 8:30. I just can't figure out how with her feeding and what now. It seems to me like she still takes a evening nap around 6, and I can't really keep her up or else she's fussy so we just go with it. Bed time will come and along with that I'm sure we will develop our routines and bed time rituals.
I have a mom confession to make. It's kind of been weighing on me and I'm actually nervous about posting this because it's been bore into my head (and everyone else's head) that it's a huge no-no. I let her sleep on her stomach. I know before I got pregnant and before I started breastfeeding I always slept on my stomach so I think she gets that from me. And like everyone else my age I was put on my stomach to sleep as a baby. She only does this during the day because she's still sleeping in the rock n play at night and she can't sleep on her stomach in that, but she does sleep on her side. She was having a tough time sleeping her in her crib ( she never stayed asleep very long at all when she was on her back) and because I was so nervous about her sleeping on her stomach I would put her on her side. One day she fell over onto her stomach, I discovered this when I went to check on her. Her face was out and she could breathe so I left her like that and she slept for a little over two and half hours! I was sold, and I did check on her probably every 20 minutes to make sure she was still alive. She's been sleeping on her stomach ever since, and I do still check on her but I am confident that she will be ok. She moves her head from side to side so I know she's going to be ok. And please if you disagree with how I put her to sleep, please refrain from being harsh or judging. Every parent is different, everyone does things differently so please just remember if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all. You can think what you want, you can think I'm a horrible mother, but I'm sticking with it. It's what works for our bean.
Her two months stats: 11 lbs. 14 oz. and 24 inches long! Growing like a weed! Ugh and she had to get shots at that appointment as well. Worst experience ever, I've never heard her scream like that! I felt horrible! But the nurse was fast so it only lasted for about a minute.
Love her peach fuzz in this picture!
Still loves to have her hands by her face.
Love that smile!
She loves to be naked!
Loves her cousin Adora!
All dressed up for cousin Liz's wedding!
Love my little family!
The last couple of weeks some days it's gotten up to 40 degrees! Which lately feels like Spring! So we took advantage of it and took some winter walks! It was lovely, and now it's back in the negatives! Wah! Well it was nice to get out of the house while we could and hopefully the nice weather be back soon!
Our little bean in growing and I am so beyond excited to able to watch it all happen. I never knew I could love someone so little, someone who spits up on me, someone who poops on me, someone who burps and farts so lour so very, very much!
