Taylor – 2 months old!

  This little girl is super smiley, super sensitive, super snuggly, and super stunning!  She’s got a great disposition and is very easy going and laid back most of the time.  When she’s hungry, wet/poopy, tired, cold, or gassy she’s very vocal about those things; but in general, she’s a go with the flow kind of gal!  She loves to look at what’s going on and she doesn’t miss much.  She’s able to track a person as they walk around the room (even past midline for those developmental folks).  She can clasp her hands, bat at objects semi intentionally, smile, coo, hold her head and neck up for ever and doesn’t seem to mind tummy time at all.  She can roll from her belly to her back – she even did it at the doctors office at her well visit.  Taylor can mimic a few faces we make and will stick her tongue out when you stick yours out.  Her hands are open more often these days and if she’s tired or hungry and you don’t plug her with a paci or milk, she’ll suck her hand, fist, wrist, fingers, or thumb.  She has blue eyes and the sweetest voice!  If you put her feet on the ground, she’ll straighten out her legs and support her weight pretty well.  She LOVES the bath and wiggles and kicks and coos in the tub.

Sweet Taylor Grace has gained 2 pounds in the last month!!!!!  She’s 9 pounds 9 ounces (25th %)and 20.5 (<5% )inches long.  So many people mistake her for a newborn when she’s in her car seat or if I’m holding her.  She’s a petite little thing but man is she growing fast!  Last week, she grew out of 3 outfits!  Most of her NB sizes still fit her and her 0-3 month clothes just swallow her!  She still wears NB sized diapers, both in cloth and disposable.

 

Taylor likes to be moving in the car.   She doesn’t like to be buckled in her carseat.  She hates wet or poopy diapers.  She’s great at holding her head neck and shoulders upright while on her tummy.  She loves to have her little butt patted.  She has a great smile although she’s choosy about who she shares it with.  She sleeps swaddled at night, and sleeps all night long without a peep (unless I fall asleep before her 11pm feeding and forget to wake and feed her – in which case she wakes around 4 or 5am starving since she’s not eaten since 730 or 8pm).  She has long eyelashes, loves any shhhhhhh kind of sound, doesn’t like shirts put over her head, and loves soft blankies near her face.

It’s so interesting to see the differences in Taylor and Nathan’s personalities, needs, preferences, and what soothes them.  While Nathan was still drinking breast milk at 8 weeks, he was doing so via bottle at all feedings.  Taylor on the other hand, nurses for all but her very first and very last feedings.  She is a bit harder for others to comfort but is quickly comforted by me holding her or talking to her.  If she sees me walk past, her eyes lock on me like a missile on it’s target.  Chad and I have both commented on her being more of a mama’s girl at this age than Nathan was.  Now Nathan and I had/have a strong bond, no doubt, but I can tell a difference in Taylor and I bet a little of it is because I’m able to nurse her.  Now, this certainly doesn’t mean she won’t be daddy’s little girl… in fact I hope and fully expect she will be!  I’m sure we’ll have our fair share of mommy/daughter drama, but for today, she’s a mama’s girl… or at least a mama’s boob girl!  Was that inappropriate?  :)  Hee Hee!  We love you little peanut!