2 Months

You’re two months old this week. Time has flown by and you’ve already experienced your first Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, 5K charity walk, and many many episodes of The Big Bang Theory.

You are such a morning person, it just kills me. I have no idea whom you inherited that from! I love walking in to your nursery in the mornings to those bright eyes and a big gummy smile.

It’s so easy to make you smile – all you need is someone to poke your nose, tickle your feet, or sing to you and you are the happiest baby in the world. You’ve recently been making little giggle sounds, which make your daddy so happy. He would do anything – no matter how goofy – to make you smile at him.

You are growing so much. You’re over 12 pounds now and have already grown out of many of your 0-3 month outfits! You are so long that we had to cut the footies out of one of your “emergency” outfits that we kept in the diaper bag because your little toes were all curled up. You can already wear most of your 3 month outfits and before long I’ll be packing up most of your wardrobe and swapping with the 3-6 month stuff.

You have the longest eyelashes in the world. I just love them.

You’ve started to explore the world – opening your hands, grabbing things (like your mommy’s scarves, shirt sleeves, necklaces), making lots of noises to test out those vocal chords. It’s incredible to watch you interact with the world. You like ceiling lights and especially fans. Toys that have lights and music are particularly interesting to you, and you have an incredible attention span. You also love to sit up, either on someone’s lap or propped up with pillows on your boppy so you can see everything that is going on around you.

You pretty much despise bath time. And tummy time. And getting your nails trimmed. (note to self: do not make her do all three things in one night. sigh.). We started a nighttime routine with you that works really well (bathtime, lotion, pjs, warm bottle, music & snuggles with daddy) and you’re now sleeping in your crib from 8:30/9pm until 7am and only waking up once or twice.

I love when you fall asleep on my shoulder and you tuck your head under my chin. It makes me sad when you put on your pouty face (which I also think is hilariously cute) and I can’t figure out what’s wrong.

I go back to work this week. I’m sad that I will miss 9 hours of your life every day. I pray that you never think that I chose to go back to work because I didn’t want to be around you, or that I wanted anyone else to raise you. It breaks my heart to think that so many of your next milestones will be captured by someone else for the first time. But I promise you I will be a better mom because of this, and you will always be my priority. I can’t wait to watch you learn to interact with and trust other adults, and learn from the kids who will be in your daycare. Weekends will be precious to me.

Now if you could just grow up a little slower, while learning to sleep through the night, your mommy would be ever grateful.

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