Two Months Old!

Elijah hit the eight week mark on Saturday and technically turns two months old today.  Jacob always thinks it is funny to count age in weeks for so long. 

This is the first picture of a smile I was able to get.  How come their eyes always look funny in pictures where they are laying down?

By the end of the first month, I felt like I knew the little bugger, but halfway through the fifth week, I think he was switched out for a new one.  I had to re-figure him.  At four weeks I had started giving him Mylicon at each feeding and it was working beautifully, but suddenly we were having troubles again and we had to troubleshoot.  I think we are under control again.  Also, I had been trying in vain to have him nap without being swaddled, but I had to give up my denial and accept that he just does better with it.  I had wanted to avoid this so that I don’t have to wean him from it later, but I value my sleep and sanity.  I try to give him at least one nap a day without it so I don’t have to start from scratch later.  He does pretty great being put down while awake.  Good thing because Josiah doesn’t like to give me up for long when it comes time to putting Elijah down.

He does great with tummy time!

In spite of some craziness in these past four weeks, Elijah has been doing quite well.  He has made two trips to the pediatrician for “sick visits” and yesterday was his routine 2 month checkup.  His first sick visit was for dual eye infections secondary to his clogged ducts.  I can manage to put eye ointment in nearly any animal, but a 5 week old was a challenge!  Thankfully they cleared up nicely.  I’ve still been working on the clogged ducts.  The right eye is great and the left is nearly resolved.  The second sick visit was last week for a little head cold/sinus infection that I gave him.  Bad mom!  Josiah got it, too.  They’ve both managed it better than I did.

Tough guy!  We were outside enjoying my new porch furniture.

Elijah now weighs 11 lb 15 oz (50%), is 23 inches long (50%), and has a head circumference of 38.8 cm (25%), so he is growing nicely.  Good thing because he’s not much interested in eating half the time.  It drives me a bit batty, I must say.  Those percentages make me laugh just because they are so different from Josiah’s.  I wonder if anything about them will be similar?

While at the pediatrician today, Elijah got his first two shots.  He cried quite a bit.  He was nearly asleep by the time they came in to do it and he always gets a little emotional when he’s tired and tends to overreact, so he held true to that!  Poor guy!  We had a few extra tears, a mild fever, and one dose of Tylenol throughout the day.

    Josiah wanted Jacob to put Elijah on his rocking horse.  He shares well when it is his idea.

Along with this two month mark comes the big interactive smiles (which he’s been doing for awhile) and the start of cooing.  Unfortunately I don’t have all day to sit in front of him, but I do take the time to get and enjoy as many as I can!  He is trying desperately to become a thumb sucker.  He catches it every now and then for a second, but usually can’t separate it from his other five fingers!

How do you choose just one picture of such a cutie???

This two month mark is also my signal to start getting ancy about sleeping through the night :)  Since he’s been a little under the weather, things have been a bit random, but he had been in a nice pattern of waking only once around 2:30 a.m. to eat and poop and occasionally again at 4:30 or so to poop after which he could just be appeased with his pacifier.  He was slowly dropping that second waking.  He is now getting back to that point and went 6 hours the other night – which I think is technically “through the night”, but 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. just doesn’t seem like it to me!  Hopefully soon we will get back to the one waking, then none!  Though I have to say he really seems  to be hungry for that feeding, so I may have to accept it hanging around for a bit.

Gettin’ smothered with love!

Funny thing…at Josiah’s appointment at Shands last week I was telling the resident that Elijah sometimes (pre-Mylicon days) stops nursing and kicks his legs while fussing before pooping just like Josiah used to.  In order to say this I pointed over at the stroller containing Elijah.  Jacob was between me and the stroller and the resident looked at me seriously and said “HE kicks his legs when he poops?”  I didn’t catch her confusion and said yes, but Jacob realized she thought I meant him and corrected her.  We had a good laugh!