Two Months Old

It's amazing how quickly one grows in the first two months of life.  Ann Elizabeth is starting to fill out nicely getting those chubby cheeks and legs that her brother came into the world with.  She still seems so tiny and petite but certainly not so fragile.  We go to the doctor on Wednesday, so we will see how much she has grown.

She is such a sweet baby, I'm so surprised how much she is like Sterling was.  I was totally prepared for a colicky baby this time around, or at least a more difficult one.  It is definitely more difficult with two rather than just one, but she certainly is making the transition easy for us.  Which I appreciate, because as I have mentioned before, she came right in time for her brother's "terrible two's" stage of life. 

She is still doing a lot of this.  She is actually becoming quite the nighttime sleeper.  Giving her mother at least 8 hours a night of sleep.  Of course that doesn't count the times I have to slip her paci back in her mouth, but she never really wakes up and if she were in her own room she may not even need me to do that (her restlessness just wakes me up).  So, maybe we will move her to her crib soon.  She even slept 10 -11 hours two nights in a row last week, but that was with some strong coaxing from her mother.

 And she has also been doing a lot of this lately.  I finally caught some good smiles on camera.

 We've also seen lots more of these pretty blues lately.  Ann Elizabeth is getting into more of a sleep-wake pattern resulting in many more awake/playful hours.  She even enjoyed a Baby Einstein video yesterday while I got ready for church.  Alex had to be there early and I was really worried that I wouldn't be able to get ready in time with a wide awake baby.  But thank you Disney for creating a mother's best friend, it worked like a charm and she was completely fascinated.  I guess it's time to break out all of those old Baby Einstein and Praise Baby DVDs.  Maybe it will make car rides easier.  (Which she normally does perfectly on, but every once and a while of course she doesn't enjoy sitting in that car seat).  Speaking of pleasant car rides see my next post for an amazing discovery.

If you care, I finally fixed the sideways beach pics on the previous post