Two Month Doctor Visit

We had James's two month checkup today. It went pretty well. He checked out healthy and Dr Newby answered all my paranoid new-mom questions. He measured 25 inches long (95-97 percentile) and 12 pounds 3 ounces (50-75 percentile), which means he got the Madren Man gene that encodes long and skinny. I'm trying to beef him up, but he apparently just keeps getting longer. :)

He also had to get vaccines. Three shots and one oral dose. He ate that rotavirus right up, but cried at the shots. He shed his first real tear. He actually calmed down fairly quickly though, otherwise I may have cried too. Those shots are so big compared to his little leg!

Two Months

The first month flew by. Time seems to be going its normal pace now. Although it's still hard to believe the little guy is two months old already.

He grows so much everyday. He's pro at holding his head up. He tries to roll over during tummy time. He talks to us a lot. He's grown to like the bath, especially when Seth holds him like Superman so we can scrub his booty. He loves playing on his playmat. He doesn't really love the carseat anymore, which we've taken the infant insert out of because he outgrew it.

James got suited up for his two month picture

Rattle

He finally held onto the rattle!

Sight

James usually enjoys car rides. In fact, in the first week home, Seth would take him for a spin at night to put him to sleep. (Something I've learned my cousins call a snooze cruise.)

Yesterday we had to go to Target and about half way there James started screaming. We were on a busy street with no place to pull off and only about three minutes from Target. We thought it was probably a wet diaper (he REALLY hates being wet) so we waited until we were in the parking lot.

Turns out his little toboggan had fallen over his eyes and he was really displeased about it. As soon as we fixed it he calmed down.

We took it off for the car ride home.

Yay

I've had an entire week of not terrible breastfeeding!

Also, after talking to some of the moms with similar aged babies at BABS today, I feel that James is a pretty laid back little dude and am really thankful he's pretty easy going. I mean, he does absolutely hate wet diapers and taking a bath (he really hates water for being an Aquarius!), but he sleeps okay and isn't too fussy. He's been sleeping in his cosleeper all night and will sit happily in his bouncer during the day. Some of them still can't put their babies down. Oy!

1 Month

James is one month old today! That has flown by. I really owe a post on how our first few weeks were, but it will be quite long. For now, let me say that breastfeeding is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life.

I had my 4-week postpartum visit with Dr. Labban today. Everything looked good; my stitches are 85% healed. Dr. Labban looked at our birth announcement and said, "I'm sorry to tell your husband, but he looks just like you!" (which I promise really wasn't him calling me ugly :D)

Nicknames

One concern with naming our baby James was the plethora of nicknames that could emerge. I'm not a big fan of nicknames and didn't want our son to be called Jim or Jimmy or Jamie. Just James. But now I sometimes find myself calling him other things. The list so far is Little or Baby Love, Jamesy, Muffin, Barracuda, and Cheese Curd.

PS Seth calls him Little Guy and Baby Bro. He can even fist bump.
PPS Now I've added Toothless. Even though it seems to make him mad.