Two Months

Our little Peanut turned two months old yesterday!  She is getting so alert and expressive, and is just so much fun!  Our most exciting news is that she has started sleeping through the night!  We had one 7 and 1/2 hour stretch four nights ago and then two nights ago she went 8 hours and 55 minutes (I have a sleep timer on my phone) and last night she went 9 hours and 18 minutes!!!!  Sooo nice!  What a good little girl! :)

It’s kind of funny that she is sleeping through the night so soon (8 weeks and 2 days) since I thought she was not doing as well as her sisters in that department.  They both started sleeping about 8 hours straight at the day before 9 weeks, and then by three months were sleeping 11 hours at a time.  Peanut went from sleeping about 5 hours at a time to 9 hours in just two days.  I guess she just wanted to prove she can keep up with those big sisters of hers. :)

Some of the fun things she is doing right now are:

*cooing and “talking” - my favorite of this is when we say hi and she responds, “ai” and when she is happy she says, “ah goo!”

*smiling – she is quite the smiley girl now! Bug and Boo love to make her smile…and we do too!

*holding her head up – she is quite the pro at this and loves to be held upright so she can see everything.

*trying to roll over – she pushes her legs so she can kind of get up on her side.  I don’t think she’ll do it for a while, but she’s practicing with those muscles.

*likes tummy time! (Bug loved it, Boo did not!)

but it always ends the same way…

“Oops, I didn’t mean to do that.”

She also:

*is a spitter! She spits up like crazy! We go through at least two burp rags per feeding and if I don’t put a bib on her she gets her clothes soaked too...and usually mine as well!

*is really pushing the three month clothes, especially jammies. I think she’s ready for me to get the 6 month jammies out already!

*is also pushing the size 1 diapers.  I’m trying to make it through the last pack we opened and then we are moving up to size 2. 

*is drooling like crazy too!  We’ve checked and don’t see anything, but she sure is drooling.

*nurses 6 times a day, anywhere from 8-20 minutes on each side.  During the day she usually does about 12 minutes and then 8, and at her night feeding (around 9:30pm) she goes 15-20 minutes on each side.  She must know she needs to eat a lot so she can sleep longer.

*is down to 3 or 4 poopy diapers a day, but has 6 to 8 wet diapers (those overlap).

*naps poorly in the mornings, but takes a longer nap in the afternoon.  I have to try to remember to put her down earlier in her schedule so that she won’t oversleep her early afternoon feeding. She still naps between every feeding, but the morning and late evening ones are usually only an hour.  Sometimes she won’t nap at all between her dinner feeding (6:30) and her bedtime feeding (9:30).

Her sisters are still doing great with her and love her to pieces!  It’s a lot easier to let them hold her now too since she has a lot better control of her head and I’m not so worried about her little neck.

We went to the doctor this morning and her stats were:

Weight: 11 lbs. 8 oz. – 50%

Height: 22 3/4 in. – 50%

Head circumference – 50%

It’s so funny…she seems to be growing so fast I would have bet money on the fact that she is bigger than her sisters were at this point but I just checked and found their stats for two months. 

Boo’s were:

Weight: 11 lbs. 9 oz. - 75%

Height: 23 1/8 inches - 80%

Head circumference - 75%

And Bug:

Weight: 11 lbs. 14 oz. – 75%

Height: 23 1/8 inches – 75%

Head circumference: – 75%

So Peanut is actually the smallest! Although maybe the charts have changed if a one ounce difference is a 25% difference between Peanut and Boo.

Peanut did great at the doctors.  She didn’t care for the oral rotovirus, or the shots, but the nurse wasn’t super fast and she actually stopped crying between the first set of shots and the second.  She calmed down pretty quickly after and fell asleep quickly because she was an hour past her nap and exhausted.

The doctor did say that he is going to order us an ultrasound just to make sure her hips are okay from being breech.  Apparently there is a much higher chance of hip dysplasia in girls.  He said her hips felt fine, but that it’s better to catch any problems early on so it’s just a preventative measure.

Other than that she is our beautiful happy and healthy girl!

Love that sweet smile! :)