Noah is 8 Weeks!

I always struggled with these "monthly posts" with Lincoln...Noah was born on Feb. 6th, so it's not April 6th yet, but today was exactly 2 months ago. So do I wait until the sixth of go by the fact that it was now been exactly 8 weeks? Hmmm...I'm obviously going with the latter on this one.

The major milestone met in the past week has been SMILES!!!! And oh my goodness how yummy he is when he lights up! Usually there's about a 20-minute window when he's full of smiles right after he eats. Then he gets fussy trying to move the milk through his belly and then he falls asleep.

Speaking of milk, I've kind of gotten away from feeding schedules (or at least not as neurotic with them as I was with Lincoln) and let me tell you - it is liberating!!!! Go figure...he eats when he wants to. :) This has worked for us because Noah likes to take monster naps throughout the day. Typically, he wakes up when Lincoln does, I feed him while Lincoln runs around the living room, then we all move into the kitchen together, turn on the ipod and dance while I make breakfast. Noah is wake this whole time watching how crazy we can be (though this is when he has smiled the most!), but soon crashes (usually in his swing but sometimes i put him in his bassinet) sometime during Lincoln's bathtime. Then Lincoln goes to bed and they both sleep for about 3 hours - it's pretty phenomenal actually.

At night, I usually feed him around 1, and then Jason will give him a bottle around midnight. T=He wakes up once around 3:30-4:00 to eat and then usually doesn't wake up again until 7-something. So the routine works out pretty nice, but after we get the okay from the doc in a week, we're probably going to start working to get rid of that early morning feeding (which means lots of screaming for a few nights in our house!).

Also pleased to say that Noah has resulted to the fact that we are going to work out in the jogger every day and he has finally started to not cry hardly at all (he might actually like it now!). He is also getting tons better about this in the car.

He has gone from pooping 20 times a day to only once which works for me!

He still has some tummy troubles (these never resided for Lincoln until he was 4 months), but we have become experts on helping him with this so it doesn't seem as bad as it did with Lincoln.

Lincoln is at such a fun playful age right now (we're loving it!) and everyday I watch him play and discover, I get more and more excited for the upcoming days of watching him and his baby brother do it together. How precious will that be...

BTW, I'm SUPER excited about their Easter outfits tomorrow!