Stephens' Stories: 2 Months

On Sunday Austin turned two months old. He welcomed that milestone with his first cold and first fever. We think the fever was a side effect of his vaccinations on Thursday. It was a small fever and it went away after about 24 hours. He still has a stuffy nose today but is feeling much better. Friday and most of Saturday he spent sleeping and eating. It was obvious that he was not feeling 100% since he didn't want to play, make happy cooing noises, or really even interact with us at all. He just wanted to rest and eat. I guess that is what we want to do when we are feeling bad so I can't blame him. At least he still had an appetite. This past month has been full of changes. Austin has been sleeping like a champ for the past 2 weeks. We put him to sleep around 9:30 or 10 and he sleeps until around 7 every morning. His pattern during the day after he wakes up is eat, play for about 45 min-1 hour, take a 1 hour nap in the stroller while I run, eat again, play for about 45 min, snooze again for about 1 hour, eat again, play, nap, eat, play, nap, etc. He is currently eating 6 times a day with one bottle at the dinner time feeding. He doesn't nap between the dinner time feeding and bed time so he is awake from about 7 til 10. Yesterday his naps were shorter during the day. I guess he wants to stay awake and hang out with me more! He enjoys his activity mat with all the bright colors and toys to look at. He hasn't gotten to the point where he reaches for the toys hanging yet, but his doctor said he will soon. He likes his swing and we will start using it more now that his neck is much stronger (his head used to fall over in it). He equates "quiet time" or nap time with the little lamb bouncy chair. And he usually falls asleep when in the car seat in the stroller or in the car. Although yesterday he was awake for most of our run in the carseat. He likes the warm bath water. He doesn't usually make noises in the bath, but if he is crying when we put him in the water, he quiets down immediately when he hits the water. I tried to get a good picture of him next to the Savannah dog, but he wasn't really cooperating. Here are a few below. We did still go to Steamboat even though he was a little sick. More on our trip in the next post.