Moving along at 2.5 months

So we made it to 2.5 months. The boy came in at 9lbs and has grown and grown since. Unfortunately, the weight I gained during his 9 months inside has not decreased as quickly as his own weight has increased. Therefore, we have turned toward the stroller to get moving a bit more. This will hopefully serve two purposes...to provide mr. v with more diverse surroundings than our living room, and to help me to shed some of this weight.

Today, we braved the -8C temperatures and made it the 5 miles to the Agency. It was BITTER cold.

Mr. V is entertaining us everyday with new sounds. He spends most of his morning and evening talking to us with long moans and hard staccato grunts. He was lifting his head at 2 weeks, smiling at 5 weeks and is now at 11 weeks doing his form of a laugh, which includes a huge toothless grin accompanied by a loud grunt. then repeat. over and over again.

Early on he had a hard time yawning without a cry or whine and he has been toughing out 5am stomach cramps since the day he was born. But with the end of the first 3 months, he is getting easier and easier. We are able to leave him on the floor to play with his dangling toys while we eat or cook or clean. He even conquered a 20 hour trip to, and a 14 hour trip from the States for Christmas. The jet lag is getting to all three of us, however.

All in all, mr. v is pretty great. His smiles are ridiculous and I am very glad that we are slowly moving out of 'survival mode' and are moving toward being able to just enjoy each other.

I am unemployed again, which suits me just fine for now. Being ok with moving from a two person, two income family to a three person, one income family is a major turning point for me. As is being ok with being a one income family that will spend most of 2011 planning and building a house.