Two Months Old

My little Phaedra was two months old on Sunday, which is when I started this post. Ah well, such is life.

Here are some pictures from the past month:

Sometimes, I rock "two ones" in the chair before Eleanor's nap. When it's time to put Eleanor in her bed, I set Phaedra down on the chair for a minute while I take Eleanor to her room and give her loves and kisses. Phaedra was awake when I put her down, but when I returned, this is what I found.

Bathing beauty. Look how her hair curls up when wet.

Watching Daddy sleep.

"Play with me, Daddy!"

My matching little girls.

• Phaedra is smiling and interacting more each day.

• She has just about mastered getting her hands to her mouth to suck on a fist. It's so fun to watch her concentrate as she stretches out her arm, raising it above her her head and touching it to her face as she slowly lowers it to her mouth. Other times, it goes straight there, but she still has to think about it every now and then.

• After some debate on the issue, we tried offering her a binky. She's either not interested or has no clue how to keep it in her mouth. Either way, it makes her mad most times. I guess she made that decision for us. Car rides will be more difficult, but it will save us headaches later on.

• She finally stopped pooping in small installments, so we aren't going through 100 diapers a day. (I know everyone is interested in her pooping habits.) Now we're in the blow-out stage. She lets out so much at a time with so much force, I don't know if there's a diaper in the world that could hold it all in, but I'm still looking for one. I'm going to try size 2 diapers as soon as we finish the pack we have.

• She seems to be growing faster than Eleanor did, but I'll know for sure when we go to her doctor appointment. I swear she's as big as Eleanor was at 3 months. Side note: You notice how everyone asks you how much your baby weighs? I never have an answer for that. Our scale at home isn't that accurate, and I don't take her to the doctor's office every day just to weigh her. I could tell people how much she weighed at the last appointment, but babies grow so fast that it's irrelevant within a week or two and you're back to not knowing how much they weigh. I wish I had a better answer for that question besides, "Um, I don't know right now." It doesn't annoy me that people ask; it just annoys me not to have an answer.

• She is a pretty good sleeper. She has some trouble going down at the beginning of the night, often going to sleep, getting put in her bed, and waking within a few minutes. But once she quits that pattern and actually stays asleep, she sleeps for a good several hours before waking to eat. She falls asleep eating or being burped and goes right back into her bed. Then, she sleeps in most mornings (something that never happened with Eleanor, at least not as a pattern).


• Her favorite way to fall asleep is swaddled in a blanket --arms out, thankyouverymuch-- being held facing out, basically drooping over your arm.


• She's really pleasant when she finally gets up in the morning, smiling and cooing at me while she's on the changing table and being surprisingly patient in relation to being fed.
• She is fascinated with her older sister, and will track her around the room as she jumps, runs, or carries on whatever shenanigans she's up to at the time.