Our little man has been busy growing--at his 2 month doc's appt he was 13lbs 9oz! He also got his first set of vaccinations...not a pleasant experience for either of us. He's been smiling a lot more, now in response to us smiling which is really cute. He's super happy first thing in the morning, so one of these days I need to have the video camera ready to capture that cuteness. His sleeping is pretty varied. Some nights he goes for around 3 hour stretches (which is wonderful for him, he's not one of those kids that can go 4-5 hours yet). Other nights he gets fussy and will go for a 2-3 hour stretch once and then wants to wake up just about every hour after that. I'm assuming it has to do with a lot of things--growing (and being hungry more often during those times), development, etc. Doesn't make it easier, but we're getting the hang of night waking and soothing.
He currently has a bedtime of around 10:30pm or so, since we all go to bed at the same time in the same room. We're thinking about beginning to try putting him down ahead of us and gradually moving his bedtime back to an earlier hour. We have a video monitor so that we can keep an eye on him from downstairs. We tried this at around 9pm recently, and while he did wake and require soothing twice before we finally went to bed, it seemed to work OK (and I'm assuming will get easier as he gets used to going to bed without us in the room). We also need to come up with a good bedtime routine as he gets older. It's strange to think about my own childhood bedtime routine and how concretely I can remember it. Joey and I essentially get to choose how he'll remember this time, which seems odd but also cool. I'm sure a part of this will be a bath, since he LOVES it. I'm throwing some photos from a recent bathtime here, showing Joey holding a naked Oscar right before going into the tub. Seriously cute stuff, people.
Other than all of that we're just trying our best to survive Joey's interviews and also trying not to think about/stress over all of the stuff that will go along with him getting a job (such as moving). Oscar is doing some other sweet stuff now--discovering his hands and doing a lot more grabbing, holding his head up really well, looking around constantly and examining his surroundings, etc. I'm really loving getting to see every little development...so cool!
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