Month 2

Geeze this was a crazy month! Just a few days after her one month birthday, we moved all our belongings, except a suitcase, to Nathan's boss' vacation home in Midway. But you know all about that by this point. Then we moved into our new place that isn't finished yet, and still isn't, so we are still partially living out of boxes and suitcases and still feeling a little unsettled. At least my baby is the cutest thing in the world.

We started getting real smiles this month and it is absolutely my favorite thing in the world. She gives them pretty freely, which I love. Sometimes she smiles at the weirdest things. My favorite thing is when Nathan dances around with her and sings his original song, "Sadie has a big butt." She thinks it's hilarious. She also makes eye contact and will stare at you for hours. I love it! It makes me feel like she actually realizes that I am there and alive, instead of just a milk machine.

Her grunting has stepped it up a notch. Only at night though. She clearly has not figured out how to work her wee little intestines yet, and so she grunts and strains when she needs to fart. She wakes me, and herself, up a couple times a night as she tries to force gas out. She usually falls right back asleep after she does. She is crazy gassy all the time though. Every morning when I unswaddle her, she lets out like 50 farts. It's like the swaddle was holding them in. She also had trouble pooping for a while. She didn't poop for nearly 6 days which is very rare for her. She usually goes a few times a day. I could tell she was getting uncomfortable. Then one day, Nathan went to pick her up from her nap and got a nice surprise. 6 days worth of poop. YAY!

She went back to church for the first time. She was an angel through my lesson in Mia Maids. She was not such an angel through Nathan's Sunday school lesson the next week. But she sure looks pretty in little dresses and headbands.

She's slowly starting to "talk" and it's so sweet. She stares at you and makes these cute little noises. Sometimes she'll just yell but really loud. I love watching her try to figure out her vocal cords. She definitely knows how to cry though. Her first month she had such a quiet cry. Everyone commented on it. It was awesome. It's not quiet anymore. She also imitates us. She thinks it's so funny when I stink my tongue in and out fast, and now she copies me. She can't do it fast though. I am much more talented.

I started pumping occasionally so that Nathan can feed her. She took the bottle pretty well at first, but now fights it pretty hard. She gives in eventually. It's nice that I can have a little more freedom. She usually wakes up twice a night. There's been several times when she only wakes up once and it's awesome. She will sleep for about 6 hours straight, waking up around 5am. By the time she wakes up again, it's time to be up for the day. I like those nights a lot. The past two nights, we are up at Grandma's house in Idaho, she has slept from around 11pm to 7am. It is amazing. It makes me not want to leave Idaho. This place is good luck.

She is definitely gaining a lot of weight and growing like crazy. She has outgrown a lot of her newborn clothes and the infant insert in her carseat. She is still in newborn diapers though. We have a big stock pile of size 1 diapers and I tried one on her and it was way too huge. It's funny to me that she is so much bigger than when she was born, but she's still really small compared to a lot of other babies. She was just such a bitty nugget at birth! We have her doctor appointment when we get back, so I can update later about how much she weighs.

She loves going on walks and LOVES drives. She like to stare out the window or take really long naps. She went on her first road trip to head up to Idaho for Thanksgiving. She did great! She slept for about 4 and a half hours and then I fed her in the parking lot of a gas station. She was awake for the last hour of the drive just staring.

She still loves bath and loooooves her bouncer chair. It can make her happy no matter how fussy she is. She loves walks. She loves music. She is sweet and content and perfect. We love her so much!