2 month update

Today's been an interesting day! I got Philip to drink out of a bottle today! Yay, that's progress! Thanks to my SIL Chrissy, Philip seems to like the Dr. Brown bottles. So the taking a bottle was a first. And we had just another 1st this evening! So besides the carseat out and about and in the car, Philip has NEVER fell asleep in anything without being swaddled. Not the swing, bouncer, I mean anything. He has to be swaddled to sleep. So I took a shower this evening and put Philip in the travel swing so I could keep an eye on him (you cannot let him out of your sight with Haley around). Well when I got out of the shower Philip was sound asleep in his swing. Now that's not where I would typically like him to nap but it's exciting because it gives me some hope that he will be a tad like Haley, that girl slept anywhere and everywhere I kid you not. She's the kid who napped in the stroller at the zoo if she was tired, in my lap on Pensacola beach, and in the car so sound asleep that I could pick her up, take her inside, change her diaper and lay her down and she never blinked an eye!

Our 1st 2 months as a family of 4!

Yesterday 7/31/15 Philip turned 2 months old! Can't believe how fast that time went. Haley and I watched his birth on video and he still has that sweet newborn cry. He has found his hands so it seems because he likes to suck on them. He will not take a pacifier or a bottle. He took a pacifier around 1 month but then just stopped. Breastfeeding is thankfully going strong but I can't get this boy to take any kind of bottle yet! We will be trying to work on that again very soon.

For the past few weeks I've had him on a 3 hour schedule where he wakes up, we do a diaper change, he eats, he plays for about 30-45 mins or however long he can last then it's nap time again. Nights have been great. I put him to bed around 8:30 - 9pm and he usually wakes up around 3-5am then we start our day around 7-8:30 am. I'm very used to our 3-5am feeding and I watch TV while feeding Philip and sometimes even stay up and pump but it's the time that we start our day that I struggle with because I am so not a morning person and I know I can't go back to sleep.

Philip loves to look at everything and is full of smiles when he makes eye contact. He also coos when I talk to him. Trey has watched him a few times if I quickly ran to the store or somewhere nearby and it never fails that as soon as I walk out the door, even if he's sleeping, he will wake up screaming. Trey said it's like he just knows I left.

We've made a bad habit of letting Philip sleep in his swing for naps and bedtime. It had started off in our room and putting him to bed with the swing off. Then we started turning it on if he was fussy when we put him down. I eventually moved him to his room in the swing because Trey and I wanted our room back. 2 weeks ago I turned the swing to the lowest setting and there were some times when Philip wouldn't like it but I left it like that anyway. 2 days ago I started with nap time and decided it was time to sleep in the crib. We finally got that transition done. Yay!  Now we just have to tackle the bottle thing.

This Monday 8/3 I'll be taking Philip to his Dr appt for his 1st round of shots. Dreading it!

It has been a change for all of us adjusting to a newborn schedule and not being able to go whenever we used to but it's so worth it. It's hard to describe the amount of love I have for my children.

Until next time, here's a few pics of our first 2 months!