SJP - Month Two - Smiles, Vaccines, and major Growth.

Month Two!

How in the world are we already 10 weeks into this?! Insanity. 

This month our girl has gotten even more alert and SO vocal! Homegirl is always making noise, sleeping or awake. She grunts, coos, and mimics noises you make to her. Pretty sure she'll talk anybody's ear off one day.. like her Mama. Oops! 

She smiles and kicks and kicks. 

Those arms and legs don't stop, EVER. This was my last month home with her and I spent a lot of time snuggling her a little extra as I knew going back to work would limit those afternoon nap sleepies. When she wasn't in my arms she was on her back on a blanket looking up at the fan in our bedroom, out the window , or at the red lobster on her Baby Einstein Mobile. All the other things hanging and she would focus on that red lobster. She also loves to sit in her Baby Einstein Bouncer that vibrates and sings. This bouncer also has a red bird that she can  pull on and she focused on that constantly! Maybe it's the color red? Just a few days ago she was batting her arms back and forth and her hand caught the loop on the bottom of the bird and she pulled it herself! Totally freaked herself out, hilarious! 

She's also pulled her own hair laying on the floor - that happened more during week 6 and hasn't happened recently.. But quick story, she was laying under the mobile just watching and kicking totally content. All of a sudden Jake and I see and hear her SCREAMING, red faced, ANGRY and obviously in pain. I rush down to her to figure out what's wrong and it took me a minute but I see that she had a death grip on a handful of her hair! Poor kid! Took another minute to get her to let go and then she screamed and screamed for another few minutes. I just hugged her and rocked her, felt like the worst mom ever and I didn't even do anything! Earlier that day I did accidently smack her face on the hanging singing star on the mobile when I picked her up from under it.. same screaming incurred. Maybe she had flashbacks after the hair pulling incident! 

She loves to observe and watch. We put this bouncer on the counter often when we're cooking in the kitchen, or in the living room if we're hanging out. We talk to her, she watches and smiles. I tried to catch a few here, this was 3/6/18 right before we headed to take her Daddy lunch.   

Her sister is still obsessed with her, and Sawyer LOVES her big sissy. When Ava talks to her she smiles and smiles. I can't wait to watch their relationship progress as Sawyer gets older and more aware of just who Ava is. Ava recently discovered that her name is "Sawyer Jane" and loves to call her that. She walks around now and calls her "Soy-er Dane".

Sawyer LOVES the bath. It's part of her evening routine and again, she sits in the tub and kicks and kicks. She's almost too long for her infant tub so I've got to start looking for other options to use until she's really sitting up.

This month we had to switch formula, and she's doing SO MUCH BETTER on this new one. We're using Enfamil Gentlease, thanks to the recommendation from my sweet Hannie Sims. Sawyer was purging every night what seemed like EVERYTHING in her system on the other formula, and since being on this the last 4 weeks she hasn't done that at all. We're happier, but much more importantly she is. 

She started Day Care - and though I thought the best option was going to be finding a private sitter, this Day Care has been WONDERFUL. They all love her so and she's the newest infant so she gets a lot of attention. Another milestone we hit this month is her move into her crib in her own room! She was sleeping in the Pack N Play in our room.. and at 7.5 weeks my husband pushed that it was time.. I'm so glad he did! Both Sawyer and her parents are sleeping so much better! She has been going down for the night anywhere between 9:30 and 11pm (just depends on feedings and generally she cat naps between 6-10 at some point anyway - I know soon we'll be able to get her down sooner!) When she goes down sometimes it takes a little bit to get her completely down, but once she is she's out until 5 or 6 the next morning! The last few mornings her timing has been perfect and I can hear her wrestling around about 6:15 am, I get her up, dressed, feed her, and we head to Chobee.

Mind you.. she's not really awake.. she refuses to open her eyes as I'm getting her ready and grunts the whole time. She sleeps all the way to Chobee and usually doesn't wake up when I pass her to her teachers. This morning she did! And smiled at everyone as we came in! They loved it, as did I.

This kid changes everyday. I love seeing her personality but I'm sad at how fast time seems to be flying.

This blog was kind of long and detailed.. but journaling is slower than my typing fingers and I'd like to have this to look back on one day when she's older.

Keep an eye out for a few blogs to come about what God has been speaking to me.. He's prompted me to share but I haven't quite sat down to do it. ( I hear you Jesus, I'll do it I promise!)

Here's another phone dump of some month two pictures!