Today marks Aspen's 2 month old birthday. There has been some huge changes in the past month, many having to do with her personality and her day to day activities. Every day seems to get a little easier for both of us, but of course we still get caught off guard by the surprises a newborn supplies. For example: This past Saturday we met Jason's sisters for lunch and while Aspen was sitting in her car seat she decided to use the bathroom. The surprise--it went out her diaper and up her back. Jason got her all clean and changed and then we headed off to the supermarket. Could you believe it that we get to the supermarket and she started crying, so we check the diaper and it happened again!! I couldn't help but start cracking up. Keep in mind both times this happened we changed her in our car while it was pouring outside (just another element to deal with).
Although some of the surprises tend to be a little messy, we both take them as they come with a good sense of humor and smile on our face. Here are a few things that Aspen has been up to the past month:
She loves playing on her play mat with the rattles above her head. She just recently has been able to look at the rattle and then reach and grab onto it.
This past week she has slept through the night three times (7 to 71/2 hours is considered in my book sleeping through the night). I know that she wont do this always overnight, but it's definitely a nice step into a good direction.
Her neck control has continued to get strong. She has started to figure out that her arms can help her out when trying to lift her head.
She has naturally fallen into a better schedule. She has been able to go longer during the day for feedings and she seems to enjoy the night time routine we started last week. The routine includes a bath (not every night), getting into her pj's, read her a story, turn the lights out and have one last feeding for the night. She does really well going into her crib after eating even if she isn't fully asleep. We turn on her CD and it seems to help her put herself to sleep.
She fits into the baby carrier much easier lately. We spent some time outside while Jason planted some things in our yard.
She also has been enjoying flying around the house with Mommy and Daddy--of course always being careful.
Her personality is definitely coming out more. I just love looking at her and wondering what's going on in that beautiful mind of hers.
We are so glad to have the blog to share with everyone all of Aspen's activities. It's great to think when Aspen is older we can go back and look at old posts of her when she was just a newborn. It's our virtual scrapbook that we get to share with all of you!
Check out the difference from her 1 month birthday (on the left) and today!
**I spent Sunday afternoon playing around with photo editing while Aspen was napping. Below are a couple of photos I played around with---maybe it's the lack of sleep, but I just thought these were hilarious!
3 comments:
Wow has she changed! She is such a hip little chick in those sunglasses!
How adorable! I'm glad she is getting into a routine for you. Sleep is very important for new parents, and it's nice that Aspen is accomodating her parents. Can't wait to hold her when we come up for Jennifer's baby.
Love,
Mom
She is so cute. I think she is looking more like Jason in his baby pictures.
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