Two Months Old

This post is two weeks late, but Ethan is two months old!  He's getting big.  He weighed 13 pounds at his two month check up.  His cheeks are nice & chubby, he has a great double chin & his upper arms & legs are fattening up.  I love it!  I love roly poly babies.  Alex was always pretty lean, so I'm hoping Ethan will be my chubster.

Ethan started smiling around five to six weeks & it's not hard to get a grin out of him.  He loves when you touch his nose, cheeks or chin or dab his mouth with a burp cloth.  He's a happy baby most of the time but he can be very vocal if he's not getting what he wants. 

We've started putting him in his crib during the day for some naps with mixed results.  Sometimes he'll sleep the full hour & a half but most of the time, he only makes it for 30 or 45 minutes.  We haven't even tried putting him in the crib at night.  He's still in the bouncer chair...  He usually sleeps 8-9 hours in it (sometimes even 10!), so it's hard to want to move him to the crib.  I like sleeping too much!  I feel like I need to make the transition before I go back to work in a few weeks but I haven't been able to convince myself to just do it.  You know, it's just never a good time to miss out on sleep while your baby wakes up every 30 minutes.  It's frustrating enough during the day - much less at night when all you want to do is stay in bed!  I go back & forth between being really upset & feeling like I'm failing as a mom vs. not really caring at all & feeling like it will eventually work itself out.  It just depends on how I'm feeling at that particular moment.  I think every mom has probably felt like that at least once - at least I hope I'm not alone!

Even though he's a little picky about where he likes to sleep, he's pretty much a perfect baby in every other way.  He loves to nap in his car seat, so it's easy to run errands.  He doesn't cry much & it's usually pretty easy to figure out what he wants when he does cry.

We still think of Ethan as being a tiny newborn.  That is, until we saw him next to another newborn!  My friend came over last week with her three week old & Ethan looked so big compared to him.  I texted this picture to Michael - he said he thought Ethan was on the right at first & then couldn't get over how big Ethan has gotten.  I'm trying not to be sad that my baby isn't teeny tiny anymore.  They grow fast! 

Hard to believe that he'll be three months old soon!