You are absolutely adorable to us. You generously share your big smiles with us, and you love to coo and talk to us.
I hate to admit it, but you are high maintenance! I want to get frustrated with you over this, but then you flash that smile at me and my frustration melts away. A few days ago, you woke up during the night at 12:30, 4:30, and woke up for good at 6:30....all this after you've proven that you can sleep 8 hours at a time if you want to. I was so exhausted and upset that you were awake at 6:30 after waking so many times that night. Then, you flashed that smile at me! I told you, "Don't look at me like that! I still want to be frustrated." But, nope. It's impossible for me to be upset when you give me those huge smiles. All in all, I'm pretty darn smitten with you.
Some fun facts for the record:
- You can still fit in a Size 1 diaper.
- You weigh 13 pounds, according to our home scale. At your 2 month doctor visit, you weighed 11 pounds, 12 ounces.
- You've outgrown most all of your 0-3 month sleepers, but you can still easily fit in the 0-3 shirt/pant sets.
- You almost never spit up or suffer from gas. What a blessing!
- You love to hold hands with us. This was something Julia never liked to do, so we enjoy holding hands with you as often as possible.
- We are in the process of training you to fall asleep on your own during the day, which involves a lot of crying. We're starting the sleep training because you have a habit of falling asleep in our arms (which sometimes can be a long process in and of itself). But what's worse is that if you fall asleep in our arms and then we go to put you down, about 1/2 the time you wake up immediately and start wailing. You like to be held, which is oh-so-sweet when one of us has the time to be solely dedicated to you. But since you have a big sister who also needs some TLC, it's just not possible for us to hold you all the time.
- You take naps either in your crib or in your swing (it's actually your car seat locked into place in the swing base). You often do well falling asleep in your car seat while we're out and about.
- Your nap schedule is all over the place. Regardless of the time of your naps or their length, you seem to consistently be going to bed lately between 8-8:30.
- You still despise tummy time. Despise, I say! Proof shown here:
- You do not like a cold or lukewarm bottle. Sometimes you don't drink your bottle when we first prepare it. If you start crying a little while later, we're convinced you're ready to eat but you still refuse it. Then we'll remember to check the bottle's temperature. Sure enough, if it was even mildly lukewarm and then we re-warm it, you'll drink it right away. Stinker!
- The most bizarre high maintenance thing to us is that occasionally you won't eat sitting down. There have been times before when I try to feed you the bottle while I'm sitting down, and you fuss the whole time. I stand up, and you start drinking. A couple minutes later after you're eating well, I sit back down and you stop drinking. Stand back up, and you start drinking again. Do you realize how long and heavy you are, and how tiring it is to stand up the whole time I'm feeding you!? And what could possibly be different about your eating experience by me standing up?
I took you to Portrait Innovations today for your first professional photo shoot. Look how cute you are!!!!
My Little Angel, you are dearly loved!
