Little Man

Xander is almost 2 months old (officially 2 months on Tuesday - where did June go?). He still sleeps a lot of the time and is still very snuggly. He is still happiest being held and cuddled. He still spends most of his days wrapped in the Moby. I think he still misses his umbilical cord (he was hanging onto it when he was born and wasn't very happy when they took it away from him). He always has to be holding onto something. If he gets really fussy, I give him my finger or part of his blanket and bounce him and he calms right down.

Here he is grasping the moby.

He has excellent neck control and is very interested in looking around. He gets quite upset when I move him out of the line of sight of an object he is studying and tries to crane his head around to find it. He can roll from back to side and side to back (Eli didn't do this till after he was crawling). He seems so anxious to catch up with his brother!

He is starting to smile more often. I still haven't caught any good grinning pictures. Eli is the one who elicits the most grins out of this little man. I am relieved that Eli seems to outgrown his violent tendencies toward Xander and is now quite enamored with him. Whew!! Eli loves to hold him and kiss him and show him all his cars. He tries to soothe him when he is fussy - so cute! In the mornings, Eli always goes up to Xander and says, "Hey Xander, little Xander! Good sleep little Xander? Kisses Xander - mmuahh!"

Here is a video of him sawing logs in the Moby. I love little baby squeaks!!

There is a little grin.

He is starting to get the ultra-adorable behind the knee fat rolls!

Eli loves to wash his feet in the sink. It was awfully quiet and then I heard the water running in the bathroom. This is what I found.

Eli has been fastidiously driving his dump truck around the yard. He fills the bed of it with other cars, rocks, sprinklers, and anything and everything that looks like it needs a good ride. He fills it with water from the hose, and off he goes. That has to be some intense exercise! The dump truck gets pretty heavy with all that cargo!

With all this dump truck pushing, Eli has acquired quite a few little cuts and bruises. The other day, Eli was inspecting his feet and he came up to me saying "Monday, Mommy - Monday?" It took me a little bit to figure out that he wanted a bandaid for his owwie. Every time he sees one of his little cuts he requests a Monday.