2 Months

It's only taken me two weeks to finish this post :)

The Little Mister is two months old already. How time flies!

The pictures above show his usual expression: solemnly watching everything around him, silently taking everything in with his big brown eyes.

For the most part he's good natured and calm and has the sweetest smiles, though I have a hard time catching them on camera.

He's growing so fast and is adorably chubby. We can tell when he's hitting another growth spurt- he'll eat all day, then sleep the whole next day.

Speaking of sleep, The Little Mister usually sleeps 4-5 hours straight at night. Little Miss Sunshine did this too, and yes, I realize how lucky we are :) Having them start sleeping for longer periods from a young age really makes life so much easier.

He loves snuggling, just like his big sister. He'd much rather fall asleep in my arms or laying on my chest (or Mr M's) than in his bassinet. We're working on transitioning him (and are finally making good progress), but it's hard to feel super-motivated about it right now, since it is enjoyable. Only the thought that it could become a big problem in the future (we HAVE to snuggle in order for him to fall asleep) is keeping us pushing forward to help him learn to fall asleep on his own.

He HATES dirty diapers. Diapers these days have little wetness indicators- which is so cool! They didn't have those when LMS was in diapers.  The other day TLM started fussing, so I checked his diaper and a tiny bit of the wetness indicator had changed color, and he wanted that diaper off right then! Too funny. We do try to respond pretty quickly- we don't want him to get used to the feeling and not mind having a wet/dirty diaper. We'll be starting early potty training after the holidays, and an awareness of being wet/dirty helps the process. We did early potting training with LMS and while we still diapered for longer than I wanted to, there were a couple major benefits. 1- she was never afraid of pooping on the toilet. 2- I was able to recognize when the "yucky poopy" problems started when she was about 2 1/2, since I was used to seeing what her poop looked like in the toilet (it's a bit harder when it's smooshed up in a diaper). So, worth doing, even if it's not as successful as we envisioned.

He likes his thumb more than I'd like. Thumb sucking is cute on tiny babies, but is not so cute when you see a 5-year-old doing it. I prefer pacifiers because you can take away a pacifier, but you can't take away a thumb. LMS only tried sucking her thumb once as a newborn. I pulled it out, popped in a pacifier, and she never looked back.  TLM, on the other hand, doesn't really care for his pacifier, and lately has upped his efforts to suck his thumb. I caught him once or twice as a newborn, but the last few days its been a lot more frequent. This wasn't completely unexpected- we thought we saw him sucking his thumb in the ultrasound. Unfortunately for him, I have every intention of being more persistent than him :)

He has funny hair. Even though she was pretty much bald when she was born, LMS had 8 super-long hairs on the top of her head. Yes, we counted them- they were the only hairs she had for a long time. TLM has more than 8- he has a whole tuft of longer hair, which he gets from his daddy. Mr M has a thicker tuft of hair at the front as well. We're having fun playing with TLM's hair, and enjoying the fact that the hair that fell out a month ago has started regrowing already. No more male-pattern baldness here!