Lyra Rose 2-Months

Little Lyra (who is not so very little) is two months old! 

She is a dream baby! I worry that talking about it too much will jinx this wonderful thing we have going right now. 

Lyra sleeps about 8-9 hours a night! I worship her for this. It is the number one thing that can make all other things either horrible or marvelous. I know that because I didn't sleep for two years with Rowan and have slept better the past few weeks than I have in my entire parenting career. I know that four month sleep regression is staring me down from over yonder, but I'm just going to enjoy the blessing of my sleeping beauty while I can. She doesn't really take long naps like she used to.her longest nap clocks in around an hour if we are in the car. Speaking of the car, she is happy as can be back there until the car stops moving. Ideal for highway driving, not so great for all those annoying stop lights and stop signs around town. 

Lyra weighed in at 14 lbs 1 oz at her appointment (93%) and 24.5 inches (98%) for height. I looked back at Row's stats and he was the same weight, but 1.5 inches longer. She packs it in to that smaller, adorably chunky package. I loooooove chubby babies. LOVE them! I remember longing for the times when I could really squish Row without fear of breaking him and not really feeling like that happened until around 5 months. I squish and snuggle Lyra as much as I possibly can. She's just so substantial! I adore her little rolls, which are everywhere. 

She is such a mellow, delightful little thing. She has really started to smile and interact with us lately. Her smile is so enchanting! Her eyes sparkle and her little tongue will quiver because she can't contain how happy she is. My only wish is that I had all day to just chat with her smiling face and squish her chunky self.

I've been giving a lot of thought to describing what it is like having two. Is it harder? Yes and no. I felt so overwhelmed and stressed and tired with Rowan. The only standard of parenting I had to measure with was what it was like to have one child. It was certainly not easy, but now having the experience and perspective I have gained over the past two months makes it seem as if it would be. Does that make sense? It's similar to how I look back at many points in my life. Being a teenager seemed really tough while living it, but if I could go back and do high school as the person I am now, it would be a whole different experience. It would seem easy, breezy beautiful and I would make amazing choices opposed to some of the really dumb ones I made. Similarly, I would parent my one with less stress and would appreciate the complete devotion I could pay my one little bambino. 

Lyra loves watching Rowan. I can hardly wait until they can really start to interact with one another. He is always trying to feed her food which is both adorable and horrible. Luckily, I've been diligent enough so far to keep him from killing her in any form. It gets really close some days though to me not succeeding at that daily task. 

She soothes so easily and is content to do whatever we really need her to do. After her shots, she cried really hard which is heartbreaking, but she completely stopped crying the second I picked her up. She also does this funny pre-cry face and noise. I'm usually able to attend to her before she really ramps up to full on cry mode, but the timed in haven't she sometimes just falls asleep within 60 seconds. I've noticed the times she gets the most fussy is when she's tired. I would start being more structured with naps, but right now we are catering to our demanding child since she seems relatively happy going along with the flow. 

Lyra seems like she will have blue eyes...but maybe green! The top hair of her head fell out and has now grown back to match the length of the hair she was born with.  I love petting her fuzzy crew cut. She also loves when I pet her head when I'm nursing her. Her eyes will roll back and she'll contentedly fall fast asleep. Every time I find myself wondering about how she will look I pretend to assign a preference when really I realize I will adore whatever she looks like simply because it will be her look. Except if she's s ginger. We will probably send her back if she try's to pull that kind of shennangins on us. I always pictured a bunch of kids will all different combinations of hair and eye color so maybe we will get the best of all worlds. Even an Asian looking baby!

Her sad face is pretty spectacular 

CHEEKS

She loves her dad

Pj Love party