2 Months Old! Hooray!

Smiles.

Who can tell by looking at this happy baby here that her nice morning is going to go awful for her around 4:30pm. Yes, it is that time for the 2-month doctor visit with the dreaded immunization shots. From what I understand, her resulting behavior can go one of 2 extreme ways. She could be very sleepy and spend much of the rest of the evening sleeping (probably not our child) or she could get very crabby & fussy (sounds more like our child.) Mom is going to make sure she gets in a decent nap today to prepare herself for the latter and a long night of comforting.

I'm Ready for My Close-up!

She is very happy here sitting on her changing table. She's always happy after you remove a dirty diaper, especially poopy ones. She likes the air time her bottom half gets and takes full advantage of it to swing & kick her legs around without an restrictions from a diaper.

Her outfit today is a vintage Lullaby Club one (mom has been putting her in a lot vintage stuff this week.)

Last night, Isabel received a visit from some family friends, Roger & Joyce and Lisa & Grant. They didn't stay too long as she was kinda fussy (it was her evening fussy time) and needed to take her bath so that she could go to sleep.

Tomorrow, mommy's friend Carrie is going to come over to try to give her a bottle. Isabel flat out refuses ANYTHING related to feeding from daddy. So, mom is getting desperate and needs to call in for support from friends and family to try to make this bottle thing happen.

This Sunday is a joint birthday party for grandma & grandpa M. Isabel will get to meet her great grandma & great grandpa I. for the first time there.

I'm a Big Girl!

She really was all smiles this morning until her tiredness creeped up with her and then she needed to be swaddled right away and put down for a nap. I just got done telling Auntie Phanie last night that her shortest long period of nighttime sleep is always (guess I shouldn't have used the word always) 4 hours (but does get longer). Well, last night she divided her sleep evenly into 3-3-3. Usually it is the first stint that is longest, but I knew she wasn't going to sleep very long as she didn't nurse very well before nighttime. She was too sleepy and just wouldn't make it a long quality nursing, so she had to get up 3 hours later to refill her belly.

The nice thing though is that she is making progress on her elimination system and does most of her pooping during her awake hours and mainly only pees during sleep hours, which means I don't have to do middle of the night diaper changes as often. Which means, she stays kinda asleep when I nurse her and she can be put back down easily. Whereas, if she needed a diaper change she would wake up completely and I would spend around a half hour between feeding, changing & rocking. When she can nurse half asleep, she get what she needs and goes back to sleep in 10-15 minutes. So much nicer. It wasn't even that awful having to wake every 3 hours when she goes back down right away.