2 Months Old!

Hard to believe 2 months has gone by since Nathan joined our family. He's interacting more every day and we love trying to make him smile! We took some pictures to mark the 2-month age this morning and they turned out wonderfully. My friend Susan made the sweater he's wearing - I think the colour works well with the colour of his hair :) In a few of the photos you can see that his hair is really getting some red in it!



In stitching news, I've been plugging away at Village Skaters. I really want to get that one finished. I just have some snow and ice in the bottom right-hand corner of the piece and I'll be done. Nathan's been doing really well sleeping this week (8 or 9 hours every night) so I'm actually getting about an hour at night to stitch after he goes to bed. Yay! Now if we can only keep him on this schedule! I've cut caffeine out of my diet and it seems to be making a dramatic difference in his attitude and sleep schedule.

We don't have too many big plans for the weekend. We are celebrating my grandfather's birthday at the cottage on Sunday afternoon, but tomorrow plans to be a relaxing day. Yippee!

More photos are on flickr, as usual. I added pictures of Nathan's crib in the "Woodworking Projects" collection and lots more photos of Nathan in the "Family" collection as well as a set of pictures from my other grandfather's birthday party a few weeks ago.

What we've been up to ...

I thought this outfit was too cute when I put it on Nathan this morning, so I just had to take a picture!

Anyway, so what have we been up to over the last week ... The weekend before last was Peter's Mom's annual family reunion, so we headed to that on Saturday. There were about 40 of Peter's aunts and uncles and cousins there (yes, a very big family - that's only on his Mom's side!) so we had a good time passing Nathan around. Sunday and Monday of the long weekend we spent at my grandparent's cottage about an hour away from home. The weather was lovely, but it wasn't quite beach weather. We got a few nice walks in, though. That Sunday night also marked the first time Nathan slept through the night! He slept from 11:30 until 7. It was amazing. He's continued doing that somewhat regularly over the past week and a half. Now my goal will be to move the bedtime back a bit each night so that he's going to sleep earlier and still sleeping until at least 6.

I've continued with my running / walking over the past week and fit into another outfit yesterday. I'm almost completely out of maternity clothes now, and I'm guessing I have about 5 to 7 pounds left to get back to my prepregnancy weight and then another 15 to get to my goal weight. The weight is definitely distributed differently than it was before pregnancy, though!

I'm very curious to know how much Nathan weighs. Everyone keeps asking and I have no clue. I'm guessing just over 10 lbs, but we will find out in another week when he has his 2 month appointment. Hard to believe it's been almost 2 months!

One of my best friends from when I was a kid is coming home from Toronto next week and I'm so excited to see her and meet her hubby! We had lost touch for several years, but recently reconnected through facebook. I'm also heading to my hometown for a day next week and Peter's work party is then as well, so it should be a fun week!

On the road again ...

Wow, long time! Nathan's awake more during the day than during his first month, so getting time to type with both hands has been tough. I don't mind typing with just one, but I'm very slow, and we have an overly sensitive touch pad on our laptop that makes it very frustrating at times.

Last week my sister was up to visit and help out. She was a huge help in taking care of Nathan and in helping me keep the house in order. She took some pictures of Nathan on our bed on Friday morning before she left. They turned out really well ...



I had my 6-week postnatal appointment yesterday and got the go-ahead to start exercising again, so I started a 12 week plan that will have me jogging for 40 minutes straight by the end of it. I haven't done much of anything in the way of exercising since I found out I was pregnant, so I'm easing into it slowly.

And now the best news of all ... Nathan has started sleeping through the night sporadically. He did it on Sunday night and again last night. Last night was the best as he went to sleep in his crib and stayed there all night from 11 until 6. I woke him at 6 to feed him before I went for my run, then put him back in his crib and he slept until after 9 this morning. Talk about refreshing! I'm taking hold of these moments of wonderful routine while they last.

Well, I should got play with Nathan for awhile as he's awake and relatively happy :)