2 months!

kate is 2 months already! we had her first set of shots yesterday and the actual shots were not as bad as i thought they would be. bj was tied up at work and couldn't go, so i was by myself and was a little nervous because i have heard the experience can be harder for the parents than the baby. she cried pretty hard during the shots and for a minute or two after but then she was fine. the side effects have been my least favorite part of it and even those have been mild. she had a little fever yesterday and today and is more sleepy and cuddly than normal, but i'm not one to complain about extra cuddle time. i can tell she doesn't feel well but all around she is handling it like a champ.

2 month stats:
weight: 11lbs -- 48th %
head: 14 inches --- 27th%
height: 24 1/4 inches --- 94%

kate "talks" and smiles more everyday. i just die over her little coos and her smiles make my day. she is hard to get smiles out of and most of the time we have to work for it. unless you're a ceiling fan. in that case she will give them to you freely. little stinker. the lactation specialist i saw dubbed her a "lazy eater", but she is getting a lot better.. sometimes i am the only one who can get her to eat, which actually makes me feel kinda special sometimes, haha. she is such a happy, content baby. most of the time she is okay just hangin' out. she loves to be held and talked to but sometimes she will get fussy if you don't put her down and let her have her space. loud noises and strange sounds make her jump and her eyes open so wide. her eyelashes seem like they get longer everyday. she loves time with daddy and will just sit contently on his lap while he works or does whatever, it's pretty cute. she definitely has him wrapped around her finger already. case and point: i had him do tummy time with her the other day and she started fussing during it. even if she gets fussy about tummy time, since it is good for her, i usually continue with it anyway. bj put her on her tummy and she started crying after .2 seconds. bj quickly picked her up and started comforting her, which was fine. a few seconds later in a soft voice i hear him say to her "ooh i'm sorry kate, your mom made me do it. i didn't want to do that mean tummy time but she made me do it"...hahah.

she has found her hands and loves to suck on them when her binky isn't handy. she is a great sleeper and takes 3 or 4 naps during the day and sleeps from 8pm-8am. sort of. but not really. she does go down for the first time around 8pm. then i wake her up to eat at 10pm and she goes right back to sleep. she wakes me up around 5am to eat and goes back down until 8am. as long as i go to bed early it works out great.

a few other tid bits:
-"sleeping through the night" is technically (in babywise at least) sleeping from 12am-5am. UMMM that is NOT sleeping through the night. that is a long nap at an inconvenient hour. false advertisement! the whole time i was pregnant and until a few weeks ago when i heard the term "sleeping through the night", i thought they meant actually sleeping THROUGH. THE. NIGHT. don't misunderstand, i really am grateful she for how much she is sleeping right now. it is a step in the right direction...buuuuuutt. i look forward to when she actually sleeps through the night. from like 8pm-8am. the real night. with no snack breaks.
- i feel like i always smell baby pee. even right after i give kate a bath. im so paranoid of everything smelling like a wet diaper, that i actually smell it all the time. and i know its in my head. not pleasant.
-i never noticed that most of the concrete outside of shopping centers is very textured. don't the architects, engineers and contractors know that my baby is usually trying to sleep when i run errands and their textured concrete wakes her the freak up! so annoying.

and of course some pics of the little pea around 2 months