July 9, 2021
Lily is two months old! Time is going by too quickly!! And we are so busy these days with packing that I feel like I’m missing her growing up even though we are with her 24/7.
A lot has happened in these two months. Lily found her hands and they are in her mouth a lot, she pushes them in as far as she possibly can hahah. She is now ok with tummy time and seems curious, she lifts her head quite high when on floor but still prefers not to. But she can hold her head up and seem very strong when we hold her or during tummy time on top of our chests. She started to smile, giggle and “talk” during her first month and now it’s even more along with tons of movements. Last week she kept rolling over from back to the right side, but then she kinda stopped doing that, she definitely knows how to though. When she is hungry she cries out what sounds like “maaamaaa” which is very cute. She discovered that one toy in her gym plays music when she hits it so we are listening to the three songs in it over and over these days:) She seems to enjoy playing at the gym by herself which is good, it gives us time to pack, cook and eat. She sleeps 5-6 hours a night but wakeup time is around 4.30am which can be tough if I don’t fall back to sleep but it’s ok. Last night she slept for 7.5 hours and was giggling when I got her up for diaper change – normally she cries for food.
This morning, Lily and I swam to the pediatrics. It was insane out here, a complete flood outside the door. But we made it. I had her in the Solly wrap. In the waiting room I took her out of the wrap and she spit up her whole breakfast over my shoulder and I of course had forgot to bring a burp cloth, good thing I had a wrap (and long hair hahah). She now weighs 11.3 lbs and she is 22 3/4 inches, which is average for girls at two months. Someone must have measured wrong though either now or last time cause she was the same. In the report from the specialist a few weeks ago it said she was taller than average and she now fits in size “3 months”, but now she is average again I guess. Clothing sizes here are kinda stupid though, some newborn clothes are still too big and some 3 M is almost too small.
Lily got her 2 month vaccines today. She was kinda sleeping through our whole visit until she got the shots in her legs at the end. But once the nurses had left, I sang her some songs while putting her clothes back on and she was back to happy and sleepy again. It’s tough to be little and everything is new, I’m very proud of her.
I currently have maybe 8 projects around the apartment. Meaning, I make a mess somewhere, I go feed Lily and when I’m done I have forgotten what I did before so I make a new mess somewhere that ends with me feeding L again and so on. So, we are living in a giant mess right now hahah. However, most of the mess is just empty boxes within boxes within boxes. A lot of our stuff is actually already packed. I have packed half of all our clothes (which somehow is a lot!) and today we want to tackle the kitchen. Jim has carried out all the stuff we are donating to the car which is now full.
One thing that I didn’t think of is that we can’t pack any food, plants and some product for like cleaning and such for the movers to take in the truck. So I have one box of food to give to our friends, one bag for Jim to take in the car and everything that we wont be able to eat this week has to sadly go into the trash. Really don’t know what to do about my plants, I want to keep them, but I don’t know if they’ll fit in the car with all the other stuff that has to be packed there.
Last Friday was my birthday. Yay! I’m officially closer to 40 than 30 hahaha. 35 sounds pretty good to me though. I have everything that want and soon even more:) Can’t complain.
I was talking to my parents for awhile before lunch which was very nice, they got to say hi to Lily too. It was supposed to rain all day but it ended up being a quite nice day, so Jim, Lily and I went out for lunch. Technically I didn’t count as ‘fully vaccinated’ until Wednesday this week (two weeks post my second shot) but we wanted to go out and enjoy a good meal. As you may know, CDC now says that everyone who is ‘fully vaccinated’ don’t have to wear masks and can go back to a normal life like it was before the pandemic, woohoo, finally! We went to Tigin for fish n’ chips. After our lunch we walked next door to a new cookie place. We got several fun cookies and they also gave us a free one since it was our first time there and I got another free one because it was my birthday, pretty sweet:)
In the evening, we watched a kids movie. Other than that, Lily was the center of our attention like every day. Very simple day and it was just perfect.
We didn’t really celebrate 4th of July this year. No hotdogs or hamburgers. We need to finish as much food as possible so I made tons of pasta bolognese. In the evening we went for a walk and then up to the building rooftop to watch the sunset.
We heard lots of fireworks outside but the city had rescheduled the big ones til the next day due to rain that never came. So on the fifth, we walked outside to watch it and it was pretty disappointing, no big finale, it was actually kinda lame to be honest. Oh well. Next year we can celebrate it for real probably in our own house:)
Speaking of the house. We are slowly coming to understand that we are homeowners hahah. I’m getting more and more nervous about flying with Lily next week. Not worried about the actual flying and stuff, I know it will work out, but L tends to have days when there is one explosion after another which ruins her clothes, so I’m not really looking forward to go on a trip with her. I also don’t have a problem with feeding in public (haven’t done it yet though so I don’t really know I guess) but I know others have opinions about it and I really don’t feel like dealing with people. But I can’t bring too much stuff so breastfeeding is way better than bringing bottles with formula. We’ll see what I end up doing.
Ok, that’s it for now. I have to go back to packing.