Somehow Benjamin is two months old. I don't know where the time went. It sure speeds up when you've got a newborn. Benjamin is luckily a delightfully wonderful baby. He sure loves his milk (and has the chunk to prove it) but he's generally pretty easy going and allows me to put him down to get stuff done. He doesn't take consistent naps during the day (being that our comings and goings vary so much each day) but he is a great nighttime sleeper and often sleeps in long 5-7 stretches. He smiles more readily now and makes some very cute cooing noises.
My biggest challenge, really, is trying to keep his sisters from crushing him with their constant love and attention. He generally likes the attention, but they never want to leave him alone.
Three days after his birth, Benjamin had lost quite a bit of his birth weight (8 pounds 4 ounces down from a birth weight of 8 lb. 12 oz) and seemed to be struggling to add weight. I worried that he wasn't eating enough and weighed him nearly everyday.
I guess I shouldn't have worried so much because now Benjamin is a super chunk and weighs in the 90-95th percentile. At his one month check-up, he weighed 11 lb. 5 oz and was 22 inches long. But at his two month check-up, he weighed 13 lb. 12 oz (5 pounds since birth!) and was 24.5 inches long.
This little boy makes being a parent of three as easy as it can be, which is not very easy at all. But we love our little B.
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