2 months!!

Our baby girl turned two months old Friday!! I can't believe how fast the time has gone by, and how big she has grown! She is between 75-90th percentile for weight and 75th percentile for length, so it's not just our imagination when we say she has grown so big already.

This week we visited friends a couple of days, went to our baptism class, and had the dreaded two-month checkup (shots!). Baby B did well for most of it, besides an explosive diaper while eating during a quiet moment in the baptism class... which ended up leaking out onto my dress. It wasn't the first time this happened and won't be the last I'm sure- it's crazy that I don't think it's that big of a deal! If someone told me that I would feel that way a year ago, I'm not sure I'd believe it :)

The two-month shots were not horrible... I think it's true that it is worse on the mom than baby. She did cry- after turning a dark, deep red color and looking at me like she couldn't believe I let that happen to her :( Luckily I was able to nurse her immediately after, and she calmed down within a couple of minutes. After a few hours of sleep she did wake up very sore, and screamed even louder and a lot longer than when she actually got the shots, but tylenol helped and she was back to her normal, cheerful self by the morning!
We got her a new chair for doing so well :)

8 weeks old!

This week was relatively uneventful after the end of the holiday weekend, but one exciting thing Baby B did was meeting her future friend, born last weekend! It is hard to believe that she was smaller than this baby only 7 weeks ago!!
Tonight we took baby B to another party, this time earlier in the day, and she did much better than our last attempt. Everyoone loved her, and I think she had a great time!

Tomorrow we have baptism class and then baby B has plans to meet another little friend, this one about a year and a half older than her. It will be a fun weekend, but not so fun of a week with the 2 month check-up and accompanying vaccinations coming up on Tuesday... hopefully she won't even be phased by the shots, but I've heard some pretty bad stories. On the bright side, we are looking forward to seeing how much she has grown!! I really will not be surprised if she is over 12 lbs, but her weight gain did seem to plateau this week at 11.6 lbs. I've started packing up newborn clothes and even some of the smaller 0-3 month onesies, so no matter what her weight gain, there is no denying she has grown like crazy! Of course the picture above makes that pretty clear, too :)

Where did May go?!

Riley's first party... she didn't do too well there, so we got a picture at home after she stopped crying :)


I can't believe May is already over, and I can't believe my baby girl is already 7 weeks old!! I realized how much time has gone by when my friend gave birth to her baby girl Sunday... it didn't seem like that long ago when she found out she was pregnant, and I was only 7 weeks along. Now I've got a 7-week old beautiful baby girl, who is smiling and even cooing every now and then.

She is amazing at working her muscles during tummytime and has great neck strength already. She can swat at tings with her little hands and follow things with her eyes, and her stare is pretty intense when something interests her! We can't believe how fast she is changing and how much her little personality has already developed. She is growing way too fast for me- we expect her to tip the scale at 12 lbs by the end of the week!!

I really need to get my act together with posting here to keep track of everything we do and all of Baby Beaver's changes. I know she will grow so fast and these memories will fade, and I really want to be able to come back and read about these early weeks and all of her firsts! So from now on, I'm going to try to get back to posting at least every Saturday, even if it's just a quick recap of what we did that week.