2 Months

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Both equally cute. It's the chubby cheeks!


She is growing so fast. Here are a few of my favorite moments...

• She growls-at night when she wakes up to eat if I don't get her fast enough she'll start growling, then when I comment about the growling, she will smile because she already "knows."


• Elise likes to smile, she started smiling a couple of weeks ago and is especially happy in the morning when she first wakes up.


• Nights are getting better, the last 5 nights she has only woken up once during the night! Hallelujah!


• She has a happy to sad speed of about 1 second. First a warning cry and then flat out angry yelps.


• Bath time is an intense work out. This little girl creates white caps in the tub with her vicious kicking/splashing.


• Elise is an "easy" baby, most of the time. She knows what she wants and is easily soothed. The only thing is, is sometimes its hard to hold her for hours at a time and she refuses a pacifier. sigh. However, it's a perfect reason not to do my dishes. Sorry can't clean holding my precious baby. Thank you Elise.


• Elise is a great communicator. Whenever I talk to her she will reply to all of my comments. She listens to me better than anyone and always says the right thing, "coo." She also grunts at me in the morning until I get out of bed, at which point she promptly burrows into my king size bed, ALONE, and goes back to sleep. I believe it is a sibling conspiracy to get me up in the morning. And no she isn't in my bed all night, she takes over Jed's spot when he goes to work.


• Swaddling comforts her and when she is tired and only wants to go to sleep, this is the best way to calm her.


• She is oh so snugly and loves to burrow.


• She still gets hiccups at least once a day, this has been going on since she was only 26 weeks into the cooker.


• Toys are starting to fascinate her. There is a bee rattle on her bouncy chair and she will stare at it for 20 minutes, talking to it and viciously kicking in its general direction. It's a love/hate relationship. I don't think she likes that it won't talk back to her and yet is so close to her face.

Jara and Jack are doing well. Jack has never intentionally hurt her and Jara loves to hold her and sing songs to her, and make fun of Jack with her, yes it's already started.

Hooray for two months!