What do you call this again?.......Oh thats right....SLEEP!

Our biggest development these past two weeks have been.....drum roll please......SLEEP! Rykken is sleeping through the night! For the past week and half Rykken has slept through the night. Last week he was going to bed around 10 and waking up around 5:30 or 6am. Which is GREAT! This week.....he has been going to bed between 9:30 and 10pm and I have been getting him up at 7:30am to get him ready for day care! Please put your hands together and pray that it continues this way....who knows how long he will sleep when I don't have to go to work....8am would be a miracle! I am SO proud of him! He is a superstar...what can I say. Rykken had his two month check up last Monday and all is well. He weighed 13lbs 4oz and was 23in long. He got four immunizations...he was very unhappy....he cried, I cried. He did well, didn't seem to be uncomfortable afterwards...so thats good. He has been sick this past week...still. He is still battling the congestion which the doctor contributes to being in West Texas...so we constantly have the humidifier running...doesn't seem to help. He also developed diarehha last Sat (you think regular newborn poop is bad...) so I have been dealing with that and the diaper rash. He has horrible diaper rash from the diarehha and it is so frustrating! I have tried several diaper rash creams...the only one that I have found that seems to be making a difference is A&D ointment. I took him back to the doctor on Monday and the doctor said there is nothing they can do for him...that its viral and he will just have to ride it out. He has lost 3oz since his two month appointment, but he is not dehydrated and he is eating well and not spitting up or vomitting...his little toosh is just not happy! He is a trooper though and amazingly enough has not been anymore fussy than usual. I went through all of his clothes and already packed up a big box of newborn clothes that he can't fit into anymore...it is so amazing how fast they grow...half of what I packed he never even wore. Rykken is really starting to become vocal...he coos and grunts a whole lot....and I mentioned last time that he has found his hands and has started sucking on those more, yesterday when I got off work and I went to get his carseat out of the car, he was just sitting there with one of his hands held up in front of his face and he was staring so intently at it while he was moving his hand around. I seriously sat down in the backseat and sat there and watched him for a good five minutes. You just don't realize how amazing these little babies are and how inquistive they are until you watch them discover something new. Watching him slowly discover that his hand is his, is just...I don't know...incredible! The silliest and most simple things make you so proud and so happy!