Snuggles with Daddy

Claira's "Activities"

Yep, at a mere 2 months, there just ain't much a girl can do. But Claira loves to have a bath at night. Last night her big sister helped out.
She likes our little morning routine of having her face washed and hair combed on the changing table. As you can see she is getting kinda chubby - still just 9.9 lbs though.
She's started her Tummy Time routine. We have a TT session before her morning nap (assuming it becomes an actual nap!)
And she also likes her big sister's mobile of eye-engaging geometric shapes. She seems to like it even more than Ellia did. She smiles every time she looks at her fish mobile as she is being changed - thanks auntie Kat!

And lastly, Daddy likes to make an activity out of making little Claira just look ridiculous. (As you can see below. Poor thing.)

Pleeeezzz Nap!

Oh, another light napper (sigh) However, Claira now regularly sleeps 7+ hours straight thru the night. (So I don't want to complain too much) But, man oh man is it hard to 'knock her out' during the day! Sometimes I just slide the pillow that she laid on while feeding off my lap and set it on the couch if it means I can just get up and do something. Also, Daddy has a unique techique of swaddling + incline on the legs + jiggling the legs back and forth...gets her (almost) everytime. She's the apple of our eye and the queen of cat napping!

Snow Trip...

Don't ask.

Happy 2 Months!

Happy 2 Months baby girl! The first month is a blur - and now we can take a deep breath and enjoy our beautiful "silly face" baby. Your abundant smiles are the most precious moments to us. You are truly a sweet-natured little creature. Thank you for being so patient with us as we try to figure out what the heck we're doing with two offspring. We just can't wait to see more and more of your personality! Oh, and thanks for not being colicky (gotta say we were crossing our fingers on that one)

Special Outfits

Ellia will be experiencing SNOW for the first time this weekend! We can't wait to see her excitement and we're sure she'll boss us around up and down the snow. This is her new "cozy" snow suit from Grandma & Grandpa.

These Sesame Street PJs are vintage Timura. They were either mine or my brother Adam's. It's hard to believe it's not a knock-off of Sesame Street character Oscar the Grouch because the image of him is seriously jacked up - he looks like he just escaped a neuclular meltdown. But Ellia loved them, especially the fact that her PJs had "shoes" on them.

Let the comparisons begin...

(Ellia on top, Claira on bottom)
From the moment we met Claira we believed that we had a very different baby on our hands than we had had with Ellia. Well, upon taking this new little person home and getting to know her better - we see that we judged her too soon. So far, these two girls are much more similar than different. In comparing how the Newborn Phase of these two we see the following similarities and differences:
THE SAME:
- Hates, hates, hates car rides & carseat.
- Prefers to be held/rocked above all else; not one to sit calmly, stare off into space and let the world go by.
- Light sleeper.
- Light eater/lazy nurser.
- Not a pacifer baby.
- Never spits up.

DIFFERENT:
- Ellia was more physical (mandatory swaddling & loved to use her legs) & Claira is more visual (concentrates her sight on things far longer and more intently than Ellia).
- Claira is easier/faster to please and to smile.
- Ellia gained exactly 1 pound each month until her 1st birthday. Claira is gaining weight at a faster pace & might have a totally different body type. She already has 3 chins.