Logan is 2 months old!

(I tried inserting pictures, but then Blogger would lump all words into one paragraph. Let me know if you know what I'm doing wrong-to keep the spaces between paragraphs and my list at the bottom.)

Logan is doing well. He is totally over the virus and back to his old self. We are praising God for his recovery; the whole experience was scary and made us feel like first time parents again because we have never experienced a sick infant before. He is starting to smile! He doesn’t do it all the time, but when he does he throws out a bunch of them. They are very cute I must say!

He also is sleeping through the night some of the time. The last 4 nights he has slept until either 5 or 6am 3 times and the other night woke up an additional time around 2. I am pleased with that! We also started putting him in his crib in his room instead of the bassinet in our room. I decided it was time even though that means my baby is already growing up!

Napping has been harder. He doesn’t like to sleep during the day without being in one of our arms. We had one really good nap day when we swaddled him for the first time. He slept for over 2 hours in his crib. The 2nd try with swaddling didn’t go well, but the next couple of tries weren’t as good as the first time, but he did sleep swaddled in his crib for 30-45 minutes. He is a much fussier baby than Shaun ever was.

Here are his 2 months stats from his appointment today:

Weight: 13 pounds 2 ounces, 80 percentile. He gained 3 pounds 11 oz since his last well checkup at 13 days, and it is up from the 74 percentile.

Height: 24 inches, 84 percentile. He grew 1.75 inches, and is down from the 95 percentile.

Head: 40.5cm, 61 percentile. His head grew 2.7cm, down from the 69 percentile.

He also got his first round of shots. I hate my babies getting poked, but it is necessary.

Here is how Logan compares to Shaun at 2 months:
Shaun was 11 pounds 11 oz, 46 percentile.
Shaun was 23 inches, 50 percentile
Shaun’s head was 40.7cm, 66 percentile

Other news:
Shaun started preschool level swim lessons this month. He goes Monday & Wednesday mornings for half an hour. He is having a blast. The first 10 minutes of the first class he didn’t like it. He had to get used to getting and being in the water without mom or dad, but after the 10 minutes he was doing great. I love taking him!

Bill is currently in the middle of his 2 week yearly Navy duty. This year he had to go to the base on Whidbey Island, so he is staying there during the week since it is an hour and a half drive. So, I get to experience having the boys by myself during the week; so far so good! He is doing it a bit earlier in the year while I’m still home, so we can give Auntie a year off this summer.

As I mentioned last fall, there is a baby boom going on at our church in 2011. Logan was the first. Logan’s first friend, Madelyn was just born on 3/20. They have yet to meet because we didn’t want to chance passing on any lingering germs we may have still had, but it will be fun when they do. Both of my boys have girlfriends named Madelyn!

I have about 1 month left on my maternity leave. I will be going back to work, probably on May 4. I am trying to make the most of my time left and telling myself that I can do it again! I have gotten a lot of things accomplished so far along with spending time with all my boys!

Here are some of the things I have checked off my ‘To Do List’:
*Printed 2010 pictures and got them in the album (yes, I was that behind)
*Printed January & February 2011 pictures
*Started Logan’s photo album
*Started Logan’s baby book by filling things in and picking out pictures to include
*Updated Shaun’s baby book and picked out all pictures to include (I hadn’t put any pictures in his book yet besides the ultrasounds)
*Updated/finished Shaun’s little photo album from Grandpa
*Started Logan’s little photo album from Grandpa
*Started Logan’s 1st year picture frame (includes 1 small picture for each month in the first year)

Things still remaining on the ‘To Do List’ (& it grows):
*Take a good up and down picture of Logan to go in the frame from Grandpa
*Pick out pictures and order a collage of 2010 for my work wall
*Get the professional pictures in frames and organized in groupings on the walls
*Keep up with printing pictures monthly in 2011and beyond
*Do Logan’s 3 month pictures at the end of April
*Clean out Shaun’s too small clothes
*Go consignment store shopping for clothes for Shaun (we have been blessed with a lot of hand me downs, so I haven’t had to do this yet!)
*Get rid of baby clothes & equipment soon after Logan is done with them. We have already given 1 bassinet to a friend-we had 2, some clothes to a friend expecting their first boy (yes, he is outgrowing clothes already), and my maternity clothes I gave to someone at church who knew someone in need. It feels so good to get rid of stuff instead of it cluttering up the house (and help someone else out at the same time)!
*Clean out the garage (Bill’s job mainly:)
*Clean out the basement/family room
*Convert the basement into a playroom by getting rid of the loveseat and chairs and organizing toys, etc.
*Get the carpets and ducts cleaned
*Go to the zoo!