Ryker's Two Months

Ryker two months old

It's hard to believe that two months have already gone by with this cute little guy in our family. He's still the chillest baby I know and the most friendly and "social". He loves to smile. I get to wake up everyday to a happy smiling baby, so of course my day always starts off great. He always smiles when he sees one of us, which the kids love and get so excited about every time he does it, because as Elijah points out "he knows it's me and he loves me and I love him". He also is laughing already and one of my favorite moments was when he was asleep on the couch he just started laughing and he woke himself up from it, smiled and drifted back to sleep. He is always trying to "talk" with us too, which is really adorable and leads to us spending more talk time with him.

 This is the face I get to wake up to every morning

He's seriously a chunk! I love how big he is though, but it makes me a little sad that he's growing so fast. He's already in 3-6 month outfits and size 2 diapers. When the doctor first saw him for his 2 month check up he greeted Ryker as "Mr. Chunkster". At the doctor's appointment he weighed 13# 14 oz and was 22.5 inches long. He does sleep pretty well through the night though. He sleeps about a 5-6 hour stretch then wakes up between 3-4 hours and is finally up for the day between 8&9.

He got sick for the first time. I felt so bad because he got sick from me. I'm happy to say that he finally got over it but he had a cold that lasted about 2 weeks. :( He had a hard time sleeping because he was so congested so during that time he slept for 2 hour stretches until we were able to find our humidifier. It's just so sad to have a sick baby that's too young to do anything to help him get better than just use a humidifier and saline drops. He was happy through it the whole time though.

He also loves tummy time. He can get cranky sometimes but as soon as we put him on his mat and stomach, he is all smiles again. He tries so hard to scoot already and is really close to actually moving up more than a few inches. He can also roll from his back to one side and roll back...we're so close to a full roll over which means we always make sure we don't leave him somewhere he would fall off in case he decides to finally do it.

There's so many cute holiday baby photography choices, that I've decided to take advantage of as many as possible. This is for October. Here's the thing though, unlike all the other smiling babies inside pumpkins, my normally happy and smiling baby doesn't like being stuffed into a pumpkin. Actually he was okay with it until I set him on the ground. And funny story: At 7:30 a.m, 5 p.m and 9 p.m music plays on base (different songs) and at 5 they also play the national anthem and so if you're outside you have to stop, stand still and face the direction of the music during the songs and during the national anthem you have to have your hand over your heart. Well we got stuck outside when the music played at 5 during the pumpkin photo shoot, so I was standing there holding Ryker and bouncing him inside a pumpkin. I'm sure that if anyone saw us, they would have been wondering what we were doing or laughing at us.

I might be a mean mom but I love the ones of him crying