Made It. Two Months.

Owen is two months old!

It's June 1, which means that Owen is two months old! That's the good news. The bad news is that since he's two months old he had to go to the doctor's office today and get his first round of immunizations. Wow, that's a lot of shots. Four shots, two in each leg, and one vaccine taken orally. He actually handled it really well. He cried, but Bridget and I are pretty sure that he cried because we put him down and he wanted to be held and not because of the shots themselves. With myself being someone who avoids doctors mainly because of the risk of getting shots, I think he did fantastic.

In other news, Owen has undergone quite a transformation in just the last week and a half. For the first 7 weeks, Owen was unhappy unless he was being held to our chests, being fed, or if he was asleep. About 10 days ago, however, he decided it was OK to just hang out and soak in the world. He still can't take too much stimulation at one time, but he's usually good for anywhere between 30 and 90 minutes after each feeding of the day. Of course, this change had all of our visitors over the last two weeks thinking we were crazy for saying Owen was such a handful (if only they had visited a week earlier!)

Owen sitting in his Bumbo seat for the first time

As far as sleep is concerned, he is getting better and better at sleeping in his crib at night. He's now going for 6-8 hours at a time after being put down at night, which is super since Bridget is heading back to work in 2 weeks and neither of us were looking forward to getting up every night for nighttime feedings. During his daytime naps we haven't pushed him too hard to sleep in his crib so he struggles with that. We'll see what happens when he starts going to daycare part-time this week. Something tells me they'll be better at training him to nap in his crib that we are. (As long as they don't just let him cry it out. Just one of my many fears about sending him off to daycare.)

It's amazing to think back on the first two months and see not only how far he has come but how far we have come as parents. Those first couple weeks were brutal and while things are not exactly sailing right along yet we have a much better handle on the situation. Now it's on to the next set of challenges. Monitoring for complications from vaccines, waiting for him to get sick at daycare, the beginning of toothing, etc. As long as I get a smile from him each day I think I'll be OK.

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