2 months!

finley turned 8 weeks last friday and 2 months by date yesterday. what?! how is he that old? my tiny peanut baby of 5 and a half pounds is a big baby now. he's alert, smiling more and more (though only once directly at my face), and growing like crazy. his hair is most definitely reddish and his eyes are dark blue. he's got the cutest round belly and a perfect belly button. his biggest changes are the new rolls - creases in his wrists, an extra thigh meat, and two squishy chins. he's taken to breast milk like a fish to water, as baby should do, and it makes me happy to know he's getting chunky just from me.

my biggest (and really, only) complaint right now is the severe tendinitis i have from holding, carrying, and mainly, nursing finley. the way i hold him has caused some pretty bad pain that has been keeping me from getting good sleep and is basically agonizing as i try to lift and position finn. i'm working on getting some sort of treatment, because it's making me resent feedings for a whole different reason than i did before. plus, it's almost unsafe for me to carrying him certain ways and i don't want that!

aside from that pain, i am doing really well. i got sick last week but am looking forward to starting the 30 day shred as well as maintaining my (almost) daily walks as soon as it gets consistently nice out. i bought a new pair of jeans today two sizes up from pre-pregnancy and while that was difficult, i need to get out of maternity pants. still waiting for the magical breastfeeding meltaway people touted...

we started a bedtime routine and are hoping finn will adapt to it. i feed on demand, so this routine starts between 9:30 and 10:00 pm based on his last feeding. we do a bath, lotion massage, bedtime story, and rocking/nursing in the dark to lullabies from the ipod (mama doesn't sing...). last night the bath resulted in an epic crying fest, so we'll see how tonight goes. he typically loves his bath, but night time is fussy time in the h3b home. my goal is to have him down and asleep by 11:00 pm, with a feeding at 3 am and 7 am. we'll see!