Two Months

Another month has flown by.  

One thing is for sure.  Ken and I ROCK at making babies!!  Ellie is such a good baby.  I mean REALLY REALLY REALLY good.  She's so sweet.  You can just tell that she is going to be a sweet person.  She smiles around the clock.  She's so curious.  She only cried in the evenings.  Just wonderful.

We had her two month appointment on the 26th.  Everything was perfect.  She had to get a bunch of shots unfortunately.  One of them was supposed to be three-in-one combo shot but they were out of it.  My choices were to wait until they got more in, give her 5 (yes, 5! shots that day), or give her two that day and come back for the rest the following week.  We opted for that one.  As we were about to leave, the doc told me "We'll see you again at 4 months and we'll start talking about solids at that time."  My heart sank.  I know two months is a long time from now but these two months have flown by which means before I know it, my sweet little baby will be eating solids.  Slow down Father Time!

So here's the low down.  

At two months old, Ellie:

• Weighs 11 pounds 6 ounces (slightly above average and I was told that breast-fed babies chunk up in the beginning then thin out sooner)
• Is 22.5 inches tall (Average)
• Is out growing most of her newborn clothes.  .:tear:.  On to size 0-3.  She can also wear those tiny little baby shoes that Soph could never wear because her feet were/are so narrow.
• Has created a schedule for herself.  She goes to bed at about 7:30-7:45, wakes once during the night at around 3:30 (or sometimes 5:30 - never other times for some reason), she eats, smiles and coos making us not want to go back to bed but rather play with her for a little while longer than we should, then goes back to sleep.
• Eats about 4 times during the day then cluster feeds in the evenings.
• Seriously loves to be on her tummy.  If this were the 80s, she'd sleep through the night for sure.  Damn you SIDS!  
• Has started to giggle!  Mainly she laughs at Sophia.  Soph has the magic touch I guess.
• Is starting to grasp at things.
• Makes lots of little non-crying noises.
• Hold herself up on her arms really well.
• Is starting to support her weight on her legs.
• Was baptized on her two month birthday (post later)
• Is the light of all our lives.

Her list of nicknames continues to evolve and includes:  Elle, Elle Belle, Ellie Belly, Ellie-Roo, Smiley, Snort Snort, Ellies (plural Ellie?), Ellie Baby, Ellie Girl, and Ellbow.

Here are some highlights of Ellie's second month.