The Butlers in Words and Pictures: Two Months

I cannot believe William is two months old today! Time with this little man is just whipping by (and so is my maternity leave for that matter... only three weeks left!)

This past month has been so wonderful and also such a blur. William is starting to kind of sort of get on a sleeping schedule. Daytime naps are still pretty variable, but most nights William will go to bed around 9:30p and not wake up until.... somewhere between 4 and 5:30am!!!! I feel like I'm jinxing myself by even typing such a thing. It's so amazing though, especially after weeks and weeks of waking up every two hours like clock work. I can actually get up at a decent time in the am now, too! When I go back to work William will be a nice little alarm clock, too, since that is about the time I'll have to get up (barf...)

In addition to technically sleeping through the night, William is also tracking objects, smiling like crazy, beginning to grasp objects, bringing his hands together, holding up his head for short stints of time and pushing up on his forearms when I can convince him that tummy time is a fun thing to do. I know this is all perfectly normal for a baby his age to be doing... but I have to brag about my little man :) It's also just absolutely amazing to me that 8 short weeks ago he was just a teeny tiny person that just ate, slept and cried, and now he's getting such a personality and learning so many new things!

It hasn't been all roses though, he is going through a major fussy period and some days I feel like the whole time he's awake he just cries. It makes me nervous for when I go back to work, but hopefully in a few weeks he'll get over this little stage.

I'm also not quite sure how his hip is doing. I'm constantly worried that we don't have his harness on in the correct position and he's going to end up in a terrible Spica cast. The pavlik harness has proved not to be as terrible as I thought it would be, but I just have a feeling that a Spica cast is going to live up to my worst fears. (knocking on wood, keeping my fingers crossed and saying a million prayers we don't go down that road!) William also spits up all the darn time and every once in a while has explosive poopy diapers, I try to spot clean the harness, but we end up actually having to wash it more often than I'd like, which results in him being out of the harness for around 10 hours while it dries, which of course again leaves me feeling like he's doomed for surgery. The other day I was scrubbing poop out of his harness (again) and I thought, maybe there are suggestions online on how to avoid this type of situation. Here is literally what one site suggested:

Until your baby is able to come out of the harness, try to protect the harness from being soiled or spat upon. Wipe any soiled spots clean with a damp cloth and blot dry.

Hmm... thanks for that stellar advice. I'll be sure to keep that in mind.

Now for some two month old pictures of Will! I just love this baby more than I can express :)