Ryder is two months.

A little bit about Ryder William in his second month of life...

- has silent reflux that transformed my sweet baby into a bit of a monster. We tried a whole slew of natural solutions before the pediatrician told us we should really start him on some meds so that his esophageal lining doesn't get damaged. Within 24 hours I had my sweet and smiley baby back. He still spits up but he isn't in pain. 

- at his 2 month appointment today he weighed 9lbs 2oz and is 21.5in long. He's in the 3% and 5% respectively and his noggin is 40cm in the 50%. Average size head on a tiny body I suppose. 

- still in newborn clothes and diapers. 

- because of the medication he's on and because he's feeling better this child is hungry all the time! I went from getting up twice at night to getting up every 2 hours. I'll take it, he's growing and he's happy! Hopefully the need to eat constantly will taper down a bit soon.

- his naps are still pretty sporadic but I think I've figured out a few trends. If he "sleeps in" until 7am he'll be up for an hour or two and then go down for a two hour nap. If he gets up at 6am he'll come eat and snuggle with me in bed (because I'm not ready to get up) and he'll usually sleep until 9am if I'm near him. He's a snuggle bug and I love it! He almost always has the same afternoon nap, from about 2-5pm but wakes up to eat half way through.

- this boy loves to be held. He would sleep all day if I would hold him. He loves skin to skin contact and he loves eye contact. He will make the sweetest noises to get your attention and once he has he just starts smiling like crazy.

- his little baby noises resemble actual words. His favorite noises are "hi" and "yeah" and when he's hungry he says "mum" I swear sometimes he is actually talking to me. Caiden loves it.

- his big brother definitely smothers him with love, to the point where I have to intervene sometimes. 

- Ryder celebrated his first 4th of July and he was pretty indifferent about it. Miles was out of town the whole week leading up to the 4th and the rest of the weekend so we were pretty low-key. No fireworks, but we did have sparklers. He didn't seem to care either way about them. 

-  he still loves to be on the move. If I can't get him down for a morning nap I either get him in the stroller or in my wrap and we go for walks. He always falls asleep. I love that I can get him to go to sleep pretty much anywhere, it's a nice change from Caiden who would only sleep in his bed.

- Ryder was blessed in church this month. We started going to church for the full 3 hour block around 5 weeks. He started out going to Young Women's. It lasted one week. After being sweetly mauled and passed around by all the girls he started going to Priesthood every week. 

- HIS HAIR STARTED GROWING BACK IN! In his first month of life he started losing the hair on top of his head. I was kind of devastated. He looked like a little old man. But it has started growing back in already. 

- we sure love this smiley, handsome boy. His big beautiful eyes light up when he sees us and it makes my heart just swell.