Two Months

Bristol had her two month check-up today, and she is 22 in. long and weighs 9 lbs. 9 oz (25th percentile for both). In the last several weeks or so, she has started smiling at us and cooing. She is also doing really well at night, sleeping for about eight hours before waking up. So she is only waking about once a night, and if I wake her and feed her right before I go to bed, she doesn't wake-up until five or six. That's really nice. Until recently, Bristol wanted to be held all the time or she would cry, and it seemed like I had to be the one holding her. Now, though, she is often content if she has her pacifier and is in her swing. If I were her, though, I would want one someone to hold me all the time so I would have some protection from Brooke and Jade. Jade really likes Bristol, but sometimes it is too much. She often bugs Bristol when she is asleep in the swing (and wakes her up), or she tries to pick her up, things like that. Jade kind of reminds us of Elmyra from Tiny Toons because she smothers Bristol the way Elmyra smothers animals.

When Bristol is tired, Trent can't get her to go to sleep and I have to do it. This time he actually did, and apparently, it made him tired. Notice that Bristol is wearing Trent's hoodie; she was pretending to be him I guess.

Christmas Fun

This year we made a gingerbread house again, but I decided that I would actually let the kids decorate it. I helped with the frosting, but they mostly did the candy decorating themselves. They each got to do one side of the roof and then whatever else they wanted on the sides. Jade decorated the right side of the roof, and Brooke did the left. After Christmas, we are going to eat it. That's what Brooke wants to do, but no thank you for me.

Brooke's school had a little Christmas program where each grade sang a Christmas song. Kindergarten did "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." This isn't a great picture, but this is what we have. We made the mistake of getting to the program about fifteen minutes before it started so all the seats were filled and we had to stand on the side in the back. Thankfully, the program was less than an hour. Brooke is the fifth child from the left in the back row.