Love: Two Months

Age: 2 months

Weight:  11 pounds 4 ounces (25-50% percentile)

Length: 22 ¾ inches (25-50% percentile)

Clothing Size: 0-3 months

Likes: Connor loves to be able to look around. He gets frustrated after much time on his belly because he can’t see, when you flip him over he is content as can be. He still loves to be on daddy’s chest. He is also becoming very fond of baths.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dislikes: Can’t  really think of anything he doesn’t really like.

Sleeping: For the most part Connor is successfully sleeping in his own bed. He goes down for the night after his 8:30 feeding. We are getting into a great bedtime routine, with a bath, feeding, reading a book, and rocking for a little while. I do not have to rock him all the way to sleep, he is beginning to be able to lay him down and just fall asleep. This does not mean he can be awake and lay in his crib, he has to be sleepy. Then he will sleep until sometime between 2 and 3, to eat, then again between 6 and 6:30. During the day he will stay awake for about 2 hours from the time he starts feeding, then nap for an hour, and most days he will take a long nap in the afternoon.

Eating: We started parent directed feedings (Baby Wise) to help get us on a schedule and be able to allow him to just sleep at night. I wake him up every 3 hours starting at 8:30 am (5:30 am when I go back to work, which is just about an hour earlier than he wakes up to eat). I consider myself blessed with the breastfeeding, it has been going well, but he also takes a bottle well. It gives me a break, allows daddy to feed him some, and allows us to go out and do things without worrying about breastfeeding. I also want to continue breast feeding so we have been training him to take the bottle for when I go back to work. When he started taking the bottle it took him about 45 minutes to drink 4 ounces, now he’s down to about 30 minutes. He is still a little messy with a bottle, so a bib is a must.

Playing: He is spending more and more time on his play mat, although he doesn’t care much for being on his stomach. I think he prefers to be able to look around. He has become fascinated with a moving ceiling fan and lights. He is holding his head up very good, and I don’t think it will be long before we get out his jumper, which I think he will really enjoy. He loves to be where he can see things.

 

 

 

What we did this Month: Connor took his first trip to the mall to go shopping. He was great, very alert and looking around. We also went to church for the first time, and several more after that. We started with a Wednesday night, then our first Sunday as a family of 3. Over all he was good, a little fussy with his belly. We also made the trip home again for Easter. Thankfully daddy got off for the whole weekend and got to enjoy it with us. He also had more family in to meet him. So far he has been great in the car while we make the 3 hour drive.

Live: Frozen Lemonade Pie

A Summertime Favorite

 

We finally had some sunshine and warm weather this weekend, hopefully it is the break through to spring. With the good weather I thought it was time for one of our favorite warm weather desserts.

 

Frozen Lemonade Pie

It is delicious!

 

 

*Warning* There is no meringue in this pie.*

Ingredients:

graham cracker crust (of course you could make your own, but I just buy the pre-made one)

2 cups heavy whipping cream

8 oz sweetened condensed milk

6 oz frozen lemonade concentrate

 

Directions:

1. Whip heavy whipping cream until it forms stiff peaks.

2 . In a separate bowl mix sweetened condensed milk and frozen lemonade concentrate.

3. Fold in milk and lemonade mixture into the cream.

4. "Pour" into pie shell and freeze for at least 2 hours.

 

Variations:

Of course you could use a variety of frozen drinks such as pink lemonade, or strawberry lemonade. (I'm not sure how juices would taste.)

 

It is also wonderful topped with fresh berries. 



Live: Strawberry Fruit Pizzas

Ingredients:

Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough (I like the roll instead of the break apart because they turn out round)

1 1/2 cup powdered sugar

8 oz. cream cheese (softened)

strawberry glaze

strawberry slices

 

Directions:

1. Bake sugar cookies as directed on package. Allow time to cool.

2. Mix together cream cheese and powdered sugar (should be like an icing).

3. Spread icing onto sugar cookies. 

4. Spread strawberry glaze on top of icing (I found it works best with a heaping tablespoon of the glaze).

 



5. Top with strawberry slices.

 

*I found that these really need to be eaten the day you make them, otherwise the cookie softens so much you can hardly pick it up.*