Month 2 | In Review (um late)

As aforementioned, I'm playing a lil catch up on Leo's monthly birthday posts. So looking at this picture makes me freak. In a good way (because my baby is healthy and happy and growing) and an oh-my-god kinda way too (because my baby is GROWING). 

He looks SO different from that circa 2-months-old baby up there. That baby is not the grown up baby I just put down for a nap. No siree. I can hardly believe it. But I choose to just believe it and not think too much about it for fear of my mind being blown. And I would like my mind to stay in one piece.  

Anyhoo, even though his 2 month birthday was many moons ago, I did make notes so I would remember the intricacies of mister Leo's 2nd month of being.

So here they be:

• I feel like the second month was when the fog started to lift. It wasn't all rainbows and butterflies quite yet but I feel like it's when I really started to realize "Hey Yvonne, you have a baby". There were more moments of clarity like that where I feel like I started to figure it all out. For me anyway, figure it out for me. And for Leo. We started to get our groove so to speak. Our own routine.
• Similarly, I think that's when Leo the newbie started to come out of his fog too and become more of a little person with his own little personality and temperament. His fog lifted and he started to look around and notice things and people and faces. He started cooing and making his sweet baby noises. And he started with the smiles. People will insist they were still gassy smiles but honest to goodness they were responsive real ones, my heart insists.
• We started calling him "Smiles McGee" for all his precious grins. They made us all mushy and still do. Every time.
• I also started calling him "Silly Rabbit". It's cute.
• I got peed on finally. The "Silly Rabbit" was all "Smiles McGee" at my reaction.
• Baby sneezes, is there anything cuter? No there is not. 
• His sweet milk breath makes my heart swell.
• You will never ever notice how creaky your damn hardwood floors are until you're trying to tippy toe away from a slumbering babe's crib.
• We introduced a bottle (of pumped breast milk) at 6 weeks so that I could enjoy some freedom away from the babe if need be. And the need be. Even for just an hour or two, to get a pedicure, go for a walk, dinner, whatever. Thankfully, he took it without any dramatics and this mama's life has been made that much easier without my tatahs being held prisoner. 
• He had his first long stretch of sleep (8 hours) and I started to realize that sleep was not forever lost. 
• Daily walks with Leo are my fave. Summer is THE best time to have a youngin.
• I started to get back on the workout wagon. And then I promptly got back off of it again because as I write this many moons later, there is no working out happening up in here. (Side note --> must re-instate some physical activity before my old bones crack and before my stretched out belly skin remains permanently detached from any underlying muscle).

As always, the love overfloweth for mister Leo.

PS - he looks like his Papabear in this picture fo sho.