While you were busy growing away inside Mama, she read a blog where the author wrote a letter to her daughter every month, talking about new things she'd learned and what she had been like during that month. We thought that was a cool idea, so we decided to try it. Since you're still pretty little, our best intentions of writing this on your two-month birthday didn't quite happen (you're 9 weeks old today). Still, better late than never!
On December 31st, you turned two months old. These past two months have seemed like the shortest and longest of our lives, all at the same time! You have made the incredible transition from growing in utero to getting your first taste of the big world around us. Our lives without you seem difficult to imagine at this point, although still not so far away. Time has taken on a different quality since your birth, probably due to the immense change in just about every part of our lives.
Your second month, especially, has been full of new and exciting things, for you and for your mommies. However, it started on kind of a tough note. A month ago, you and Mama had just been diagnosed with thrush and were just barely starting to see some improvement in how we both felt. Meanwhile, Mommy was trying to take care of the house and pretty much every other aspect of our lives while Mama rested to try to get better. Today, you're all better, Mama is pretty close, and Mommy is probably pretty relieved to have some help with everything she had taken on!
You're turning into a smiling and laughing baby right in front of our eyes. You seemed to have a particularly big week while we were down in California for Christmas. Over the course of a few days, you started smiling on purpose and interacting with your mommies and the rest of our families through the most adorable little 'conversations'. You also started sleeping longer and more soundly and going to sleep much more easily at night. We love this. Maybe you decided that once you'd had your first set of shots and your first airplane trip, that it was time to start interacting with the world!
Here you are on the airplane:
Since we've been home, you've continued to communicate with us. You particularly love to tell us things on the changing table. Maybe this is because you can see us best while you're laying on it? You seem to be a very strong baby. You love to move your limbs around and we think you will be unstoppable once you start crawling and walking. In fact, as Mama is writing this, you are playing with Mommy on a blanket and you have rolled over several times in the past few minutes. You still don't quite know when you're doing it, but you're strong enough to send yourself over while lying on your tummy. Your head control is also very good, and you love to practice standing up while we hold you around your tummy. Sometimes you even like to stand up while propped up against one of our chests. It's pretty fun!
Most of the time, you are a pretty happy baby. This has been especially true since your reflux problem got diagnosed and you started taking fabulous baby Zantac. This has made you feel much better and helped you stop fussing so much after every time you nurse. Sometimes, mostly in the late evenings, you get too tired to calm yourself down and then you get very upset. We have learned lots of different techniques to help you relax, most of which involve lots of bouncing. You really like to be bounced. You also sometimes like to have a bath and a little baby massage to help you calm down. And, sometimes you fall right asleep when we take you for a walk in your Baby Bjorn.
Mateo, we love you so much. We love you just the way you are. We even love you when you spit up all over us, just as you are doing to Mommy right now. You have added so much light to our lives in the past 9 weeks (and really, in the 41 weeks before that while you were growing). We still can't quite believe that 11-ish months ago, you were a tiny clump of dividing cells and now you are a chubby, wonderful boy. We are having a lot of fun getting to know you, and we think you are having fun getting to know us, too. We feel incredibly lucky that you came into our lives and we look forward to whatever the future has in store for all of us.
With much love,
Mama and Mommy
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