Darrell & Sharyn

Time has just flown by. I can’t believe that he is already two months old. I can still vividly remember giving birth. He has grown a lot in the last month. He is now 25” long (off the charts for height) and 13#9oz (90th percentile). He has slowed down weight gain and is only gaining about 1.5oz per day instead of the 2oz/day he was at 1 month. He is starting to outgrow a lot of his 0-3 month clothing. Some of the 0-6 month we have are starting to fit him nicely which makes me doubtful that we will end up being able to use them when he is 6 months. I need to go through his clothes and put away the ones he outgrew and prep the next ones as I only have up to 3-6 month out right now.

He is starting to smile more and more on purpose and in reaction to us. I love it! He is getting the cooing and the giggling going to. This boy has truly wrapped me around his little finger. (I’m pretty sure Darrell is wrapped around the other one as well. :P) We love getting lots of photos of him (as I’m sure you can tell), the downside is that he doesn’t know what to think of the phone. He will be smiling and giggling but as soon as he sees the camera, the smile turns into a WTF face. We are trying to get sneakier about getting photo and video of him smiling. It is definitely hard to get a good one. Thank goodness we have digital photos with the amount of photos we take.

Edward has got a bit of a tummy, so we had to pull the cloth diapers out a snap. Makes me happy he is growing but sad that he is growing so fast. We have also found out that he sleeps much, much better on his side than on his back. Once we started putting him on his side, he started sleeping for anywhere from 5-7 hours at a time at night. It makes this momma happy that I am getting sleep! The only issue we have had lately is that he goes down for naps just fine during the day. but once it hits about 6pm until about 10:30-11, he is nursing every hour and refuses to sleep. He gets cranky and just seems like he has hit the stage where he is so tired he can’t sleep. We are definitely working on that and I hope it gets better. We are a little tired of one of us trying for half an hour, the other one trying for half an hour and then the first one goes back for another half hour before he finally goes down. Then it is easy peasy until the next night. He wakes up and gets a feeding between midnight and one and then doesn’t wake up until between 6-7. Eats and goes right back down until 9am. This is a lot like he was in the womb as he use to have his “dance party” every night around 9pm.

He loves holding his head up and ‘standing’ on us. We have also found that he likes sitting and facing forward so I usually hold him on my lap facing forward a lot and he will just sit there and look around while gnawing on his hand. Still hasn’t found the thumb reliably, but has gotten the thumb/forefinger suck down.

We are just enthralled by this little boy and are completely in love. Darrell is excited and ready for #2 already. 🙂 – not happening for another year at least.