Bryce & Brennon

Finally, the holidays are over and you are back on a schedule!  Right before  christmas you had gotten on a very predictable schedule,  you would sleep and eat at about the same time every day.  Then Christmas hit and we were running all over the place.  Alot of your Dad's family live out of town....and even if we were in town we weren't at home at youir bedtime.  But now everything is back to the way it was!!!  I tried to do the Baby Wise method of sleeping, playing, and napping but you won't have any of that!  You nap when you want to and I can't get you to sleep otherwise and you play when you want to.  Which I decided was ok because you've only been waking up about once a night, and I feed you and you go right back to sleep...so, that's good enough for me! Love you  Mommy

Today you are 2 months old.  You are such a developed little boy!  I am so proud of you.  Here are a few of the things you've accomplished in the first 2 months of your life:

- You smile at me, your daddy, and pretty much anyone who will smile at you.  You smile more in the mornings than in the evenings.

-  You have started sucking your thumb...and contrary to what others may say...it's as cute as can be!  Though you only suck your thumb during the night.

-  Even though you suck your thumb at night you still love your passy as much as you did in the hospital nursery.

-  You love bath time.

-  You have a very healthy appetite.  You now weigh 12 lbs. 3 oz. (sorry, I can't remember how long they said you were...but I know it was over 22 in.)

-  You love to hit at your toys with your fist.

-  You always pull your pacifier out of your mouth with your hand and grab onto the handle and wave it around.  (this may not be on purpose but it sure is cute)

-  You have learned to scream very loudly when you're angry...it's definately a different cry than your "hungry cry"  and your "dirty diaper cry".  You usually scream when you don't want to go to sleep but you keep dozing off.  I think you're fighting the inevitable.

-  Your father and I call you every pet name in the book from punkin, to honey, to sweety,  and I think Brycie-poo is catching on!

You're just such a big boy, I am so proud of you!!  And I don't know how it's possible, but everyday I love you a little more!

Mommy

Today we went to see Papa at the Arkansas State Capitol.  He is State Representative #7.  He was being sworn into his third and final term.  This is the beginning of 2005 session.  You got to see most of it....the rest of the time you and I were walking around, rocking, swaying, patting, and the whole nine yards trying to get you quiet.  At least we were in the VIP room and not in the crowded area where we couldn't have done much.  But it was okay...I think you were just a little disoriented....we made you get up at 8:00...you will sleep until 10:30 if I'll let you.  You wake up to eat every now and then of course.  We had a great time and I want to thank you, Dewayne for letting us come and watch. 

Love Mommy

Today we went to get your pictures made at Sterling Images Studio.  You did great...with the exception of a few mishaps.  You were doing so well until you had a bowel movement all over the beautiful white bedding in a white bassinet.  It was funny, but terrible at the same time.  I felt so bad about it, but Randy, the photographer, just laughed and said that it happens all the time with little babies.  You took some of the most beautiful pictures EVER!!!!  You smiled in a few...looked longingly into our eyes in a few....were asleep in a few....and screamed in a few.  We took pictures of your naked behind which will probably come back to haunt you when you're older...but I thought they were so precious that I couldn't help it.  I can't wait to get the proofs in a week or so. 

Love, Mommy

Finally....Abigail Elise has arrived!!!  I am so excited that she is finally here!  I was in the delivery room with Brianne and stood with the doctor at the foot of the bed.  I watched EVERYTHING!  It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life.  Aunt Bri is a tough cookie!  She did an incredible job!  Abigail was born at 9:10 Saturday, January 22, 2005.  She weighs 6 lbs 14 oz. and is 20 1/2 inches long.  She has TONS of brown hair.  Her hair is probably an inch and a half long!  It just sticks up everywhere!  It's too cute!  And she has beautiful skin. 

You were great while we were at the hospital.  Of course you couldn't come in the room so you sat in the waiting room.  Actually you slept most of the time.  We went to the hospital at about 11:00 PM on Friday night.  But you did great.  Everyone commented on how well behaved you were.  I can't wait to see you and Abigail playing together!  You two will have some fun times! 

You are such a big boy...or as Papa Don says..a big man!  When you were born you weighed 6 lbs 5 oz.  Now you weigh around 14 lbs.  I look at Abigail who weighs 6 lbs 14 oz and I can't imagine that you were smaller than her.  She is tiny!!!  And you seem so big compared to her that it seems impossible that you were ever that small!  You are growing so much.  I love it on one hand and it makes me sad on the other.  You are getting big so fast and I know that it is true that one day I will wake up and you will be grown.  I just want you to be my baby forever....and you will be! (just preparing you)  Back to Papa Don, the two of you are big buddies.  He strolled you around the hospital while we were visiting Abigail...and he strolled you around outside their house today...the two of you goo and ahhh at each other..it's adorable!  I'm glad that he's got a boy now because the poor man had to live with us three women for so many years...he deserves it!

I also wanted to point out that you LOVE your thumb.  You started only sucking it a little bit, but now you want that thumb ALL THE TIME!  You suck it so loudly it is hillarious!  At first you would only suck your thumb at night while you were sleeping, now you suck it riding in the car, playing in your swing, laying on the floor, laying on the couch, while I'm holding you, and just about anywhere else it's accessible!  You have choaked yourself with it a couple of times!  I try to pull it out of your mouth and put in your passy, but you will have none of that, you spit that passy out and go to town on your thumb again.  I guess we'll see if I can break you of it, but I doubt it.  At least it's cute!

I Love You!    Mommy