2 Month Photos

Gotta love the hippo hat!



For those wondering, yes, Tony picked out this shirt. :)

2 month Updates-the Boy, 11 Weeks

Quinn is 11 weeks old! 2 1/2 months! He had his 2 month check up a couple weeks ago. He was 14 pounds 3 ounces and 24 inches long. He's in the 80-95% for all his measurements. Obviously, having no problem growing! He has outgrown all his 0-3 month clothes (except some pants) and is fitting well in the 3-6 and some 6-9. He eats every 2 1/2-3 1/2 hours, sometimes fitting a 4 hour stretch during the day and anywhere from 2 1/2- 5 hours at night (although the 5 hours have only happened a couple of times). He loves to lay on the floor and have 'flailing time'. He really gets going! He loves to sit up, and likes his Bumbo seat pretty well. He does OK at tummy time, but seems more interested in sucking on his fist (which he can finally get at, darn the thing for moving all the time when he's upright!) than looking around or trying to roll over. The ceiling fan is still a very interesting thing as well. He smiles all the time now, and even has a kind of half laugh, half screech when he's really excited.

Quinn got a visit from his Auntie Shawna, who greatly improved his personal library!

My smiley boy :)

Poor kid is balding, all the way around, and thinning on top with a receding hairline....hopefully it comes back soon!!


New things Quinn can do:
-Smiling all the time!
-He will stare into a mirror (that baby follows him everywhere!)
-He drools a lot lately, and blows some pretty impressive bubbles.
-He will track things really well, if they interest him. :)

Quinn quirks:
-We've been playing peek-a-boo, and he gets really excited when we 'come back'
-Every morning, without fail, he will wake himself (and us) up between 3 and 6 AM and have a large poo.
-He is ever more our Houdini baby, and gets out of any swaddle we put him in.

2 Month Updates- the Family

So, I haven't been on in a while. Primarily because we've all been adjusting to our new schedules now that we're back at work. Quinn goes to the sitter 3 1/2 days of the week. I drop him off and Tony picks him up, so that we keep his time with us as much as possible.

Going back to work has been the hardest thing I've done. I honestly never thought I would want to be a stay at home mom until I was faced with the prospect of leaving Quinn with the sitter. We both need to work to maintain the life we have and want Quinn to have, and I know he will be well socialized and love us just the same, but all I could think of was that he should have his mom with him always and I was abandoning him. It's been 2 weeks since I went back, and I have cried everyday when leaving him, but I am accepting the situation little by little. I go and feed him and visit with him at lunch time, which helps.

Warning: if you don't want to hear about breastfeeding, you should stop reading now. For some reason, this topic weirds some people out.

I am still exclusively breastfeeding the kiddo. I pump while I'm at work (so exciting) and bring the expressed milk to the sitter to feed him. Pumping is going fine, it's still weird but that's what I have to do for the kiddo, so I do it. I have no problem keeping up with him, I actually put more milk in the freezer than we take out (so we rotate the 'freezer stash') every week. We are actually going to need to buy a deep freezer to keep the milk longer and get it out of our freezer where it is taking over. :)

Tony is enjoying his new job so far. He's starting some new things next week, so we'll see how that goes.

I have officially lost 33 of 40 pounds gained during pregnancy!! Now, if only my hips would retract enough for my pre-pregnancy jeans to fit....I seem to be perpetually stuck between my pre-pregnancy and maternity wardrobes.