I cannot get over how absolutely darling she looks in this two month old photo! It’s funny that I’m publishing this post now, which I plan to do with all of her other month updates – just to have them preserved here and I can also print them to put in her baby book. I know it’s weird since this was drafted LAST YEAR and I am just getting to it… but, that’s why it’s my blog and not yours! Everyday she seems to develop more of her personality and here are just a few highlights from the past month – the Ovia Parenting app and looking through my Photos definitely helped jog my memory here:

• Learned to recognize M and my face
• Repeated us saying ‘Oooh’ and ‘Ahhh’ and other vowel sounds
• She could lift her head up 45 degrees
• Responded to her rattles, bell, crinkle paper
• Open and closed her fists
• Pushed down with legs when placed against a hard surface, later on the same month she would bear weight on legs when we held her arms.
• Reached for her mobile and dangling toys if we held them above her.
• Grasped and shook hand toys
• Followed with her eyes and her head of objects moving closer and then further away. Later on she would look and focus at things in the distance (like people coming in the front door or entering a room).
• Brought both hands together
• Imitated facial expressions, sounds, movements.
• Sleeping through the night – well, over 6 hours straight
• Lifted head up 90 degrees from tummy
• Following objects (esp a favorite toy) 180 degrees
• Loves putting things in her mouth to explore them!
• We started to give her pumped breast milk by bottle around 4/17 as she kept wanting to feed for like an hour+ on each side (I had an oversupply due to my prescription medicine).
• Around May 1 we assumed she was hopefully around 8.5 pounds at that point (such a tiny girl weight-wise!)
• 9+ diapers a day of both wet and dirty ones – hadn’t started cloth diapers yet.
• On 5/23 we had her 2 months old appointment with the Pediatrician. She had MCVA’s HC at 15″/50%ile, L at 22.5″ of 56%ile, weight at 9 lbs 3.5 ounces in the 8%ile. When we had bottle feedings Ped. said 4-4.5 oz at each was fine. She gave 4 shots.
• I started pumping before going to bed at night, storing 1-2 bottles in the fridge for M to give her if she woke up overnight, so I could sleep fully and try to stay as healthy as I could mentally and emotionally – a HUGE supportive gesture from my husband!
• Her favorite toy is probably her Teddy Kompaniet rabbit rattle that was in her first Easter basket! Also sold in the USA at Baby’s First Gifts in Lexington, VA. Her Steiff bear is a close second – she talks to him a lot in her babble which is so sweet.
• She is still trying to figure out who Lily is (our dog) and she adores the ceiling fans and thinks they are people.

What fun advances did you baby’s show at this age?