Baby's first plane ride

When A was 9.5 weeks old we packed up and headed to Kansas City to visit my cousin/best friend/"sister equivalent" and her husband with their new baby and their 2.5 year old baby.  Our flight was really early, still kind of in the middle of the night actually, so that worked in my favor for A to sleep.  But really, who can resist sleeping on an extremely loud and bumpy sleep machine?

I tried to get a photo of his first plane ride.  This was the best I could do.  I had a really hard time even waking him to get him to eat.

We walked around the airport in the Ergo Baby carrier.  My coworker lent us the infant insert which keeps his head from flopping around too much.

We were greeted by my cousin and both of her daughters.  This one was on pacifier duty between the two infants.  She did a great job!

When we got there, he needed to do some wiggles.  This playmat was a huge hit...particularly the monkey!

I ended up putting him in his St Patrick's Day outfit before the end of the day.

My other cousin came over with his son who is 19 days older than A.  They enjoyed playmat time together.

 Triple tummy time!

We took a selfie for dad.  His cheeks look pretty enormous in this one.

My grandma and aunt came to KC for the day to visit and hold the babies.  My cousin and I got pedicures.  When we left, they were seated in these chairs.  When we came back, they were in exactly the same place.  Eventually, they switched babies.

 A's cousin was still in the very sleepy newborn phase, but he convinced her to wake up for a few squirms.

Before we knew it, we were on the plane ride home.  As you can see, it went much as the first trip.

At the end of our trip, we stopped into dad's office for a visit.  We paraded around and he met a lot of dad's coworkers.  The little man was pretty happy to see his dad after 3 days!  So was I!

Somehow my cousin and I didn't get a photo together.  We'll have to make sure to do that this summer!

Two months old!

It's been awhile since the two month mark but we've been busy.  We did manage to capture a few photos on the quilt again, this time outside on the balcony.  A seemed to be pretty distracted by the breeze and the sun so we couldn't get as many smiles as we normally could around that time.  At his 2 month appointment, he was 24 inches long and  weighed 12 lbs 3 oz.  That's 90th percentile for height and 50th for weight.  His head circumference was the 75th percentile.  At the doctor's appointment, his pediatrician commented that he was especially squirmy, and predicted (as it turns out, correctly) that he'd be rolling over by the next appointment at 4 months.  Looking back on these photos I see them as the beginning of the end for his thick, dark hair.  He's started going bald in more places than one.

Interacting with things

Just this week, A has started to interact with things.  

He loves looking at his black and white book.  He'll stare for a long time, then do a little spaz move, then go back to staring.

He also loves the items dangling from his swing.  We can't tell if he's staring at the bears or the ribbons that hang down, but he will stare, transfixed, for 20 minutes.

He has also started to reach for things that dangle over his head.  This video is long but includes a couple smiles and a giant spit up/sneeze combo.  His 2 month vaccinations included some spit up side effects that increased the amount of spit up on an already spit uppy baby by quite a bit.  He seems to be doing a lot better with it today, so hopefully we're nearing the end.

A visit from Heather

One of my good college friends flew all the way from Richmond to meet our little man.  The weather was cold and snowy while she was here, and we ended up just hanging out around here most of the time.  We took one walk downtown before B left; he had to go out of town for work the two days that she was here, which was great timing for me.  She has a great camera and took some amazing photos.  So many that I'm having a really hard time choosing and will just call this The Great Photo Dump of 2015.  Here goes.

He loves being held like this

Bottles by B

In just the last week he has really started to notice the toys hanging above him and swat at them

Getting his adventure suit on, a present from cousin Uly!

Outside our favorite cafe.  If you look closely you can see his hat!

Heather is a master swaddler.  I tried to learn her technique

I spend a good portion of my life burping this baby.

 He's so bright eyed in these photos!

Milk coma is a serious affliction

Nanaa is often just out of the frame, keeping watch

Nothing better than being smiled at!  This was the longest period of a bunch of smiles I've gotten.

Then things turned serious.

More smiles!

You'll notice he has more chins than he used to.

Giving the turtle the stink eye

This is what happens when you save the group picture until the 5 minutes before you need to leave for the airport.  The baby gets mad.