Two month madness

Yesterday Ramona turned 2 months old. Bring out the birthday candles! We decided to do something special.....so we took her in to the doctors for her shots. She loved it. Ok, she screamed bloody murder, and turned bright red for a few seconds, but after that she seemed to do just fine. She is in the 90th percentile for weight, and the doctor said she was perfect. Of course she is perfect.

That night we had PEPS, and it was a whole lot of fun. We took some pictures of the babies hanging out together, and all the parents were wowed by Ramona's stillness (well, everybody has to have a skill). We're going on a walk around Green Lake together on Friday (at least the moms are), so I'm really looking forward to that. Having a baby has really helped me meet some cool people. Thanks for the social life Ramona!

We've recently started a "bedtime routine", which I thought was kind of a silly thing to do with a two month old, but it has been wonderful. We bring her up to bed around 8:30, change her diaper, feed her, read a short book (she just thinks we're talking to her, because she never notices the actual book), and then we sing her a song and put her to bed. We turn on the mobile, and leave the room......and she can all of a sudden put herself to sleep all by herself. It turns out she is a very independent little baby, and she spends some time talking to herself, and staring at the mobile, and eventually falls asleep. It really makes our nights easier. She has also started sleeping almost through the night, only waking up once to eat. Its happened twice......so we'll see if its a permanent thing.

Sunny baby

Yesterday was such a marvelous, sunny day! I went to Green Lake with Dana (Ramona and Max as well!), and we had a really nice walk around the lake. We stopped at a Peet's for some coffee and a snack....as well as a snack for the little one. I also changed Ramona in the bathroom....which was my first public restroom diaper change. Big step. Then, we got a call from Dana's parents who were coming down to Green Lake as well. They hadn't met Ramona yet, so we met them at the other end of the lake. It was fun to see them, and have them meet Ramona. She even woke up for a few minutes to show off her eyes. THEN.....we got a call from my friend Sabrina who was also coming down to Green Lake for a walk. So, we met up with her (and Madeline), and continued our trek around the lake. By the end of the day we had spent four hours at the lake and walked around almost three times. It was the perfect adventure for a sunny day.

Today is looking fantastic as well, so I'm planning on walking around the lake with some girls from my PEPS group. I'm really looking forward to spending as much of today outside as possible. Ramona slept amazingly well last night in her own bed....and is not obsessed with her mobile in her crib. Mama and baby are feeling great this morning!

Hangin' in her Crib

Big news! Ramona has made the big leap to her own bed, in her very own bedroom! We are all very excited about this development in the Fenton household. We started this new tradition on Friday night, because we thought we weren't going to get any sleep. However, last night we got more sleep than usual.

I can't believe she is already big enough to be in her own bed. It feels like just yesterday when we came home from the hospital. Now she is two months old, and she goes in for her first shots this week. She reacts to the games we play with her, and enjoys listening to us sing to her. In the morning I play with her and she smiles more and more. She will also "talk" with us now.....with little grunts, and coos.

Today we are watching the Husky game, and Ramona is sitting in her Husky sweat suit. She is a little crabby, probably because she knows that the Huskies will probably lose to Oregon to continue their losing streak. This season is not a good Husky fan start for her.....

hail new moms

Ok.....

I swear this will be the last new blog I start up. Sorry to anyone that enjoyed reading my PI blog, but obviously I had trouble keeping that one up. I think some of that was due to feeling pressure that people I don't know would be reading it (and possibly writing mean comments). So, I decided to start up a new blog aimed towards my friends and family and for recording Ramona's baby "steps".

On to today's blog. Yesterday I met a mom from my new PEPS group at Greenlake for a nice walk with the babies. Unfortunately, I should have paid a little more attention to the clouds since it started raining cats and dogs about halfway around the lake. There was also thunder and lightning, and then I started having horrible feelings that one of the trees around us was going to get struck by lightning. I had no idea I was going to be endangering my 8 week olds life when I walked out the door to go to Greenlake. Then, I heard a loud noise coming from the North......and all of a sudden it started hailing. This hail was like pebbles coming down on us.......it actually hurt. Luckily our babies were covered up, neither one of them woke up. Eventually we got to our car unscathed (except for red knuckles from the hail). Besides all of the obviously unpleasant weather, I had a great time with my new friend from PEPS, so we decided that we would try to do it again next week. I'm just going to do a better job checking the weather this time!