2 Months

The following is more for record keeping purposes than entertainment:

Nathan is 2 months old today! To celebrate this special occasion we decided to take him out for cocktails. That's right, one slammin' mixture of Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Polio, and Hepatitis B, chased by Rotavirus, Hib and Pneumoccocal Disease. In case you aren't following my lame joke, Nathan got hit first set of vaccinations today. Fortunately one was oral, followed by three not so fortunate shots to the thigh. I'm sure most mothers dread this day and I was no exception! I read up on lots of ways to help relieve some of the pain for your baby (like giving them Tylenol before, for example) and forgot to do every single one of them! I also forgot that they have a bit of a delayed reaction so when I watched the needle go in and Nathan didn't even flinch I thought to myself "man, he's a toughy"...but that thought didn't last long, before long he was screaming his poor little head off. He let out such a long scream followed by silence without inhaling that the nurse got nervous for a second because she thought he stopped breathing. I have never seen his little face so red! For some reason this episode seemed to amuse Curtis. He couldn't help but laugh as poor little Nathan was screaming in agony. Fortunately he has a very short memory and didn't cry for more than a few seconds after. He then managed to sleep for the next 3 hours until I woke him to eat, once he finished eating he slept for the next 2 hours, however this time he wanted to be held while he slept. I tried putting him down several times and every time he screamed bloody murder. When he woke up I noticed that he was running a fever of 101.7 so I gave him some Tylenol. It lowered his temperature a bit, but I am a bit nervous about how tonight is going to go.

Nathan now weighs 9 lbs. 11 oz. He has not gained quite as much weight as we were hoping. The doctor informed us that he should be gaining at least 1 and 1/2 lbs a month. He is not too far off from that, but not as close as we would like. He is only in the 3rd percentile for his weight. Supposedly he was in the 76th percentile last month...but I am pretty sure that that was an error. Anyone who has seen his scrawny little body knows that there is no way that he could be in the 76th percentile! He has grown from 20 inches at birth to 22 and 1/2 inches! He's like a skinny little bean stalk!

Here he is at 2 months, getting a little big for this bassinet

Compared to how tiny he when he was born

Nathan at two months:

* He loves to smile! I even catch him smiling at absolutely nothing when nobody is around.
* He is awake and alert most of the day now.
* He sleeps through the night pretty consistently, from about 11pm to 7am.
* He is starting to respond to things like peek-a-boo more, but still doesn't appreciate them all the time
* He needs to have me in his line of vision almost all of the time. If I put him down and walk away he will whine until I come back, then he usually greets me with a big smile. I now put him in his rocker and drag him around the house with me wherever I go and he seems to like that.
* He is a bubble blower. This just started a few days ago but now he is never seen without lots of little bubbles forming at his mouth. I have to put a bib on him otherwise his clothes are soaking wet in no time flat.
* He is the loudest sleeper ever! He snores pretty loud for such a tiny thing. There is no way I would get any sleep if he were in the same room as me!
* He sometimes sleeps with his eyes slightly open. It is kind of creepy actually...

* He is overall just a happy, well behaved, beautiful baby!