2 months old

Today we went to the doctor for Caleb's two month check up. He now weights 12 lbs 9.5 oz and is 23 1/4 inches long. That puts him in the 50th percentile for weight and the 95th percentile for height. Which is interesting since his parents were never considered tall. So does this mean the little man will be taller than his parents? We'll have to wait to find out. The poor little man had to get 4 shots today. He screamed so loud, I'm sure the whole place heard him.

The little man had a busy Christmas season, so lets recap. He attended the hanging of the greens at church, where he slept like a champ. He was the only guy at a Christmas cookie decorating party, where he slept through the whole thing until I woke him up to eat before the 30 minute drive home. He was awake for the first time at church, followed by an evening of fabulous music at our church's Christmas program. This was the first time he did not sleep through everything, not sure what that means. He attended a drop in Christmas party, which was around his bedtime so he did not enjoy having anyone but mom or dad hold him, and we left the party earlier than we would have had he not been with us. He spent the night at the Ritz. Yep we are spoiling him at an early age (actually it was my Christmas/Anniversary present, they were having a special). He spent two nights at Grandma's house. He spent the day at Grammy's house. He went out to a restraunt and hosted a Christmas party at his house. He was the only boy at at a wedding shower. And tomorrow he is going shopping with mom and Grammy.

Yep he was busy, and overall was a wonderful baby. I have to say that each week it gets better and better.

We are evidently really bad at taking pictures with our camera, so we have no pictures from any of our festivities. But we hope to have some soon. So here are some older pictures that I never got around to posting. Enjoy

Striking a pose in the sweater vest (from early December)

I promise his eyes are blue, but for some reason they look brown here.

This is from Thanksgiving, but one of only a few family pics.

I think this is from before Thanksgiving

he has a voice

Caleb has started talking, ok so it is more like gurgling/cooing but it is the first time he has made noise without crying. It's so exciting.

Friday was the first day I left Caleb with Chris for a whole night. I went to a choir and orchestra concert for school. It was nice to see some of my students but I missed the little man. I'm glad that I'm not returning to work right now. I still have 8 weeks of maternity leave. I can't imagine how big C is going to be then or what all he is going to be doing. He seems to be growing and changing weekly. I was staring at him this morning thinking about how much he has changed since Thanksgiving.

Saturday night I put the little man down for the night at 8 ish. Lately he sleeps for about 4 hours the first segment of the night, so I was expecting him to wake up between 12 and 1 am. Then after that first segment of the night we will wake up after two or three hours, until around 7 am when he is awake for the day. Well Saturday night/sunday morning I woke up at 2 not to the typical noise or the little man crying but to the painful feeling of needing to feed him. I layed there for a minute in shock that it was 2 am and he was still asleep and that I was awake without having to be. I never imagined that when he finally sleeps longer hours I would wake up before him. Oh well. The little man woke up at 3 am. I'm not convinced that this is normal behavior yet but I did appreciate it and am working towards repeating this.

The other day after my one month post baby check up, I stopped by a second hand baby store. They had tons of stuff. I was looking for a jacket for the little man. He currently has three jackets in size 3 - 6 months which are just too big, and since it has gotten colder i figured he needed a jacket. while there I also purchased two sweater vests. They were too cute to pass up. So on sunday I decided Caleb would wear his collared shirt and sweater vest to church. I got him all dressed and went down stairs to get breakfast. Chris came down and I smiled from ear to ear because they were both wearing sweater vests. I love it when Chris and I match, but he hates it. We matched once at a wedding (the Jackson wedding) and he has never let us match since then, he hated it when people noticed and commented. It didn't help that the only people who commented were guys. So of course I have been wanting Chris and Caleb to match. I had to take a few pictures because I didn't know if it would happen again.

the two guys, mathcing. Aww, check out the little man's smirk.

He's starting to get a lot more personalty.

My friend Eleanor stopped by on her one day in town between moving from LA to DC. I know a crazy move that she is making for the third time I believe. Well I couldn't resist taking a photo of the two of them looking oh so Christmasy.

Pictures

No real thoughts or reflections today, but I thought you might enjoy some more pictures.

Aunt Tonya and the little man hangin out

A close up (notice the sad zit that showed up for a few days)

check out the adorable dinosaur outfit loaned to us from a friend

the little man was exhausted on Thanksgiving, he was so excited he didn't take a nap all day and after much fussing crashed for a few hours. I was so happy he was finally sleeping I was afraid to move.

My guys. I found a cute used clothing store and bought the little man a jacket.

Adorable!