2 Months

I cannot believe it- my baby is 2 months old already. When she first came home Clayton kept saying that he wanted her to get bigger so that he could play with her. He wasn't just satisfied with holding her and watching her every move and commenting on how precious it was and how sweet she was and everything that a mother is content to do when babies are so teeny tiny. In only 2 short months, however, Clayton is having more fun with her. He can't jostle her around or rough house with her yet like he wants, but she is way more interactive. She smiles and talks all the time and it is so hear melting that I would be seriously worried if Clayton wasn't more interested in interacting with her.

So in addition to her smiling and laughing and talking now, she is getting bigger. I don't notice it as much because I'm with her every day, but it's getting hard to ignore that she is growing up. Her features have changed a little bit, but I think it's just because she's more awake and aware of what is going on around her. Her face is just more awake.

Poor girl just had her 2 month appointment today where she got 3 shots and an oral dose of vacinations. It was already a rough day for her because she really wanted a nap, but things kept getting in her way so she couldn't have a full nap. Then, after being so tired and not able to sleep, mean old mommy takes her to the doctor where they shine lights in her eyes, pull on her legs, stick things in her ear and mouth, and then they poke her with needles. I can't lie when I say that I think I was in as much pain as she was with those shots though. Her pain was physical (and maybe psychological) but mine was emotional. It killed me that she was in pain and there was nothing I could do about it- that she was screaming and there was no way that I could comfort her :o(

Even though Ady is growing up and getting bigger, apparently she's not getting big enough to please the doctor. Length wise and head wise, Ady is doing really well. Her weight, however, is not growing at the same rate as the rest of her. Looking at her, I thought she was chunking up pretty well, but I guess not because she's only in the 10th percentile for weight (not that I actually know what that means, but it concerned the doctor). I promise, I am feeding my child. And I promise that she knows how to eat. Some how she's just not getting enough, so we have to go back in a couple weeks just so the doctor can check her weight again. (Oh, she's 9 lbs. 8 oz. by the way.)

I kind of have a theory about her weight though, it's also what I finally pieced together about her daytime sleep patterns as well. Most babies sleep ALL day long, but not my little Ady, she's awake and interacting with me and not sleeping more than 2-3 hours in the day time. That's with me--when Mom, Kim, and Dana were watching her, however, she slept a LOT more. I thought about that and perhaps I'm over stimulating her in the day time and I'm keeping her up. If that were the case, then Ady is burning more calories than most babies too because you use more energy when you're awake than when you're asleep. So it's not that I'm not feeding her or that she's not eating, it's that the percentile is based on sleeping babies who super chunk up because they eat then sleep all day. That's my theory. I don't know what I'm going to do with that theory (if I'm going to change how I interact with Ady all day), but there it is.