TWO Months Old

Jack turned TWO months old last week.  This past month has been great with Jack.  He has become so much more alert and finally starting waking up a bit more!  I love in the mornings when he's so alert and smiley!  He is such a happy boy.  In the past couple of weeks the smiles and coos have really picked up and we are loving it.  Pretty much if I smile or laugh in his face, he does it right back.  It's the cutest thing!

 He is loving his play mat and is kicking like crazy now.  Those little arms with the closed fist and moving all around too.  His sweets coos are just the sweetest sound in the world!  He is sleeping pretty well.  He goes down about 8:30pm, wakes up once during the night (most nights) somewhere around 2:30 or 3:00 to eat and goes right back to sleep after.  He then usually sleeps until about 7 or 7:30am.  This works well with our schedule because Champs usually gets up between 6:30 and 7:00, so I can get him up and situated before Jack wakes up!

He has found his hands and loves putting them in his mouth!  He already has the little spit bubbles on his mouth a lot.  I sure hope this doesn't mean he will be an early teether! 

 

We had his 2 month appointment this week and Dr. Willard confirmed what I had suspected these last couple of weeks...Jack does have the milk protein allergy like Champs did.  What does this mean?  It means I am eliminating dairy from my diet in hopes that he won't have the symptoms of the allergy if I give up dairy.  I am not doing a total elimination at this point but just the basic obvious ones: cheese, milk, cream, sour cream, butter, yogurt, ice cream. 

Jack also has a condition called Laryngomalacia.  Sounds scary, but it's really not too big of deal.  You can read about it here! It should correct itself by one year old, so we pray that happens!

Jack you are the perfect addition to our family and I'm so glad you're here!  I could snuggle his sweet little self all day long.  What a happy, calm, easy-going, adorable little tadpole you are!

2 Month Measurements:
Weight: 13lbs, 8oz
Length: 24.5 inches
Head: 40cm

Easter Sunday!

We had such a great Easter this year.  We hosted our families here in Columbia at our church and then to our house for lunch.  The weather certainly could have been better, as it was cloudy and overcast all day, but at least the rain held off until later in the afternoon!

We had my parents, Barrett's parents, my grandparents, Will & Ashley here with us.  Champs loved having all his family here!

I hated we never got a picture of the 4 of us, but Barrett and I did at least take some other each other with the boys before church.

Our church service was great.  I always love the service at Easter - so uplifting.  Jack sat in his car seat the whole time and didn't make a peep.  He wasn't even asleep most of the time, but was just looking and smiling at me.  He's the sweetest baby!!

Easter morning!

Easter basket time!

Easter Eggs

Champs got to dye Easter Eggs for the first time last week and loved it!  He liked dropping the eggs from one color to the next to another!  So we had some interesting looking eggs, but they were still actually pretty.  I have always loved dying eggs.  I even did another carton on my own the next day to use for decorating for Easter, but don't tell Champs!