My new favorite Simon photo

We have a very happy boy!

2-month appointment

While Simon will officially be 2 months old tomorrow, we had his 2-month appointment with his pediatrician yesterday. The vital stats:

10 lb. 13 oz. (25th percentile)

22 1/4 inches (25th percentile)

I said to the doctor upon hearing the percentiles, "Oh, so he is small." And the doctor said, "No, he's perfectly proportioned!" It's perhaps not surprising that Simon is a little on the smaller side, given everything he went through. (He was on IV nutrition only for ten days after birth.) But overall, the pediatrician was enormously pleased with his progress and said that Simon is doing everything a 2-month-old baby should do. Hooray!

Of course, the other part of a 2-month appointment is the first immunizations. I was nervous because I know that babies often are fussy afterward. The shots themselves went fine - of course he didn't like them, but he recovered quickly. But he was pretty unhappy for the rest of the day, sleeping on and off and absolutely needing to be held all the time. Thank goodness for infant Tylenol, and for Grandma Karen who spent nearly all afternoon and evening holding him! And today he seems to be feeling much better.

We already miss Grandma Karen, who left this morning after an absolutely wonderful week. Once again, she cooked, cleaned, folded laundry, made sure I was eating enough and drinking enough water, and spent lots and lots of fun time with Simon. Below - a photo on a walk by the Charles River on Sunday. Thanks for everything, Grandma!

New photos

We had a great weekend. Saturday it was cold and rainy, so we didn't do much. But Sunday was beautiful out and the four of us went out for a lovely walk by the Charles River in Waltham. (Photos on Mom's camera, so will post later.) Today, Troy was back at work, but Mom and Simon and I got to go for another long walk, this time around our neighborhood.

Tomorrow is Simon's 2-month well baby checkup, at which he will receive his first round of a number of immunizations. I know that babies are often pretty cranky after these shots, but I'm hoping Simon will be okay. It will be Grandma Karen's last day here, so our fingers are crossed that he'll be in a reasonably good mood.

New pictures! First, the three generations:

Next, our cute lil' sailor (note he even has a pacifier with sailboats on it!):

Simon still prefers sleeping in someone's arms to any other place:

Finally, a picture with Grandma Karen and the BEAUTIFUL blanket that Simon's great-grandmother Peggy made for him. Grandma Karen finished it by embroidering his name on it. We love it!

Give peas a chance

Simon is starting to wear more of the 0-3 month clothes now -- the onesies fit him well, but the pants are all still huge. This is one of the cutest outfits we have, so I had to take a picture of him in it! The pants say "sweet pea" all over them. :)

Most of the clothes we have are hand-me-downs that we got from Sarah and Evan (thank you! It makes me so happy to "re-use", especially when he grows out of things so fast!) There are so many cute outfits, but this became one of my favorites from the first moment I saw it. Glad we got a picture of him in it when he's smiling!

A visit from Grandma Karen

Yesterday, Grandma Karen arrived for a week-long visit! Both Grandma and Simon are having lots of fun together already!


I love the expression in the last photo. It's as if he's saying, "Check it out - I've got Grandma wrapped around my little finger already! Oh yeah."

Sleepy time

Have I mentioned that while Simon sleeps pretty well for us at night, he is a terrible napper during the day? I always thought that babies slept for long stretches during the day, and thought I'd at least have ample time to do things like dishes and laundry while he napped. Plus perhaps get in a nap myself. But Simon is definitely still very much a "cat-napper." There will be times during the day when he'll fall asleep, but then as soon as you transfer him to his crib or Pack-n-Play, he wakes up within five minutes.

Two places he seems to sleep quite well though - Daddy's chest and Mommy's shoulder. From this morning:

I should note that Troy was NOT actually asleep there - he was just posing for the photo. :) Simon, however, was out cold.

And from this afternoon:

I love this picture. Simon falls asleep like this very often when I burp him after he eats. I think he'd stay asleep like that indefinitely, but no matter how sound asleep he is, he wakes up immediately upon being moved!

Feats of neck strength

Simon has been doing pretty well during his tummy time. He's getting better at picking his head up and smoothly switching it from one side to the other. But only when he feels like it - he definitely needs to be in the right mood.

So a few nights ago we decided to prop him up on the Boppy to see how he did. Initially we were VERY impressed:

He was really propping himself up and looking all around the room!

Then he clearly started to get tired:

And then had had QUITE enough, thankyouverymuch: