2 months

I can't believe Elizabeth is 2 months old already!  Time really is going so much more quickly this time.  I really am sometimes still surprised to notice that I'm not pregnant anymore.

Some of the things Elizabeth is doing at 2 months old are:

• Smiling.  She has smiley phases, where she smiles a ton for 5 or 10 minutes, especially right after eating or when seeing a new person.  And after that spell is over, she is done smiling for awhile, even if you do the same things that made her smile a few minutes earlier.
• Making lots of different sounds with many different intonations.  She is doing some adorable and complex ones right now while on the playmat.  I wish I knew what she was saying, but she clearly is happy.
• Batting at toys.  Her aim is pretty good and she hits them with some force, but usually with either her forearm or a closed fist, so not thinking about grabbing.  She clearly gets satisfaction from being able to make them move, however.
• Kicking to make the bouncy seat move and get her toys to make noise.
• Recognizing her own arms and feet.  She discovered her feet yesterday and it was hilarious watching her expression as she figured out the correlation between her motions and the movement of her socks.
• Controlling her head.  She still occasionally headbutts my collar bone when she loses control for a minute and her head falls forward, but for the most part she looks all around with ease.
• Staying up until 11pm.  That is what she has designated as bedtime and she is very consistent with it.  We really need to get her to bed earlier but she has resisted our efforts so far.
• Crying.  She definitely cries a lot more than Nicholas did.  Not enough to be colic, but enough to be grating.  And sometimes I fear she is going to hurt herself with how wound up she gets.

She is still not a good sleeper at night.  She has now figured out nighttime and so goes back to sleep after eating at night, with no alert spells, but she virtually never sleeps for more than 3 hours in a row at night and quite frequently she is up every 2 hours or so and on bad nights spends one of those 2 hour spells fussing and needing a pacifier or to be rocked to stay asleep.  It is frustrating because she will do 3-4 hour stretches during the day, but there seems to be no correlation between how much she sleeps in a day and the kind of night she has, so I let her sleep when she wants to.  We'll see how daycare affects this.

And here is our sweatheart:

From 2014 January

From 2014 January