Party Time!

For starters, Abigail did great at her 2 month appointment. She didn't care for the shots, but the nurses made sure they went quickly and she only cried for a few minutes. The good news is that she is growing very well and the doctor is happy with where she is at. At her 2 week appointment, she was 5lbs 6oz and 18in long which put her in the 3rd percentile for babies her age for both measurements. At 2 months, she was up to 8lbs 13oz and 20 1/2in long, bumping her up to the 10th percentile in both. Also, previously her head circumference wasn't even on the chart, but she is now in the 3rd percentile.

I guess that turning 2 months old made Abigail decide to start acting more grown up. In the past 8 days, the shortest amount of time she slept at night was 6 1/2 hrs and all of the other nights have been at least 8 hours, including 1 night that was 9 hours. Even taking a trip to Grandma and Grandpa O'Connell's house for the weekend didn't seem to break her sleeping pattern. She has also been doing a great job of holding her head up. At times she can be a bit of a bobble head and gets lazy and rests it on our hand after awhile, but that doesn't seem to matter to her as she now likes to be held upright in a sitting position and only tolerates being held down when she is tired or sleeping.

Her smiles are starting to shine through more and more each day and over the weekend she increased her vocabulary of noises (along with length and volume of those noises). One time last night she even let out a high pitched squeak while I was wrapping her back up to go to bed. Her eyes are starting to wander more (and often times her head follows) making feeding her a bottle more of a chore then it had been.

This past weekend was spent at my parent's house in Evansdale. My parents threw and open house for Abigail and my new niece. It was a great time and Abigail did very well all weekend. She loved being held by so many different people (as long as they were holding her upright so she could look around) and it was a great opportunity for her to meet and spend time with so many family and friends. She got a lot of cool new things like books to read, a travel stroller and clothes for when she is a little bigger. I think we are going to use the gift cards that she got to buy a baby carrier so that we can go on some new adventures. I continue to be amazed at how easy going babies can be. Abigail experienced being and sleeping in a new environment, seeing a lot of new faces and being passed around and held by dozens of people, being in a large crowd that was loud at times, and being outside in the heat for several hours and was not bothered by any of it.

It was really good for me to get away from home and see friends and family this weekend too. It is a lot of work to travel with an infant, but it was really worth it in the end.