2 Months Old!

Leah is 2 months old!

I love seeing her start to develop a little personality and transition out of the infant stage!  She is starting to do longer awake periods, she has been staying awake between 2 feedings sometimes.  At night she usually goes down anywhere between 7:30 and 9:30pm, she gets up to eat around 2:30 and 3:30am, and then up for the morning around 7am.  Obviously this varies night to night, but I think she is doing great for only being 9 weeks old!  The last couple nights I have transitioned her out of the infant bassinet attached to the pack n play, so she just now lays flat  in the pack n play.  And she has been in our bed a lot less recently!  Someday she will sleep in her crib and share a room with Briana!  I love having her in our room though, it is going so well.  It is so easy to get up and quick feed her, and Alec and I sleep no problem.  We got many warnings from people that it can be very hard to have a baby sleep in your room, but it has been great.

She eats roughly every 2 hours during the day.  Sometimes she takes long naps during the day, but I never let her go longer than 3hrs between feedings.  I don't want her to think that it is night time in the middle of the day!

Leah loves when people talk to her, she just smiles and makes her little noises back at you.  Brie is starting to sit and talk to her and make her smile.  It is SO cute seeing the two of them interact.  It is very hard to catch her cute little smiles on camera, they come and go so fast!  She has been sucking on her hands more and more, I really wonder if she is going to be a thumb sucker like Brie.  She really likes the pacifier (plug), she has that thing in all the time!

I've been trying to do more tummy time with her, she doesn't love it (what baby does?!).  She lifts her head up great and looks around.  She does best when she does her tummy time on my chest, she likes to look at her mama :)  I brought the baby toys up from the basement and we have been starting to dangle those in front of her face....mostly Brie just likes to play with them though.

The doctor said she is looking great; he had no concerns whatsoever.  Leah weighs 12lb 5oz (95th percentile) and 23in long (99th percentile).  She got all her vaccines, thankfully the nurse was very quick with the entire ordeal!  Leah cried, but I nursed her right after the nurse finished and that calmed her down right away.  I gave her a little Tylenol when we got home so that her poor thunder thighs weren't too sore later.  I told Brie that Leah had to get shots today, she kept saying "oooooooh, poor Leah!"

As another month has passed Alec and I continue to feel so blessed that Leah is a part of our family.  Two months ago I had no idea what it would be like to have 2 kids, and now I can't imagine our lives without this precious little girl.  Leah brings us so much joy!