Brody at 2 months

Lets start out of a few sweet pictures of me soothing my boy. We do lots of this on the "not so good nights". I'm pretty sure he couldn't be any cuter

Brody Parade:

5 days

1 month
2 months

Some diddies about the little man of the house:

• coo's & ah-goo's after bath time, when you say "hi", and when you make a kissing noise at him



• laughed out loud for the first time on Monday



• loves to sleep everywhere except for his own bed



• hasn't had an "episode" in a month (hooray!). He's on Axid for reflux & got another Rx today for bowel spasms that is "as needed". We try it for the first time tomorrow, so we'll see if that eases him any. He's really not that crabby, just 3-4 nights a week we can't get him to sleep for 5+ hours because he's too uncomfortable and then he gets all overstimulated from being up for so long.



• is "lazy" at tummy-time according to our pediatrician (apparently the "lazy" gross motor gene has struck again. you may recall Syd being a little delayed in this department & having months of therapy. I'm not as freaked out about it this time)



• fits well into his 3-6 months clothes. some 0-3 month clothes still fit, but none of the sleepers or onsies do, and none of the little socks we have fit his feet anymore (bet you can't guess who he inherited the big feet from!)



• is still fussy in the evenings & waking up 1 or 2 times at night to eat. Syd was sleeping through the night at this point, but we had also implemented a strict sleep schedule on her & were letting her cry-it-out to go to sleep. because of the earlier drama with Brody, we've decided not to do sleep training until after our Florida vacation



• loves to be outside. this is one of the cures for fussiness, we take walks when it cools off late in the evening



• He's a big boy! Stats: weight = 13 lbs 3.6oz @90%, length = 24 1/2" @ 90%, head = 16" @ 60%

• still takes a pacifier (binkie) when he's tired, with some encouragement usually. I said if he liked them past 2 months I'd switch from the green soothie kind the hospital gives you to the more fashionable mums. He seemed not to mind the switch.

• makes goat noises when he plays, poops, or is unhappy

• has blue/gray eyes. sydney's were much darker than his at this point, so I'm wondering if he'll end up with my hazel eyes instead of Jeff's brown