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I can't believe our new little guy isn't so new anymore. Alex was 2 months old yesterday. And in typical second child fashion, I didn't find the time yesterday to blog about it. We went to the doctor yesterday for his 2 month check up and we have a healthy little boy! He weighed 13 lbs 6 oz and was 24 inches long. He is in the 75 percentile for height, weight, and head circumference. Poor little buddy got 3 shots which did not make for a happy camper. He ran his first fever as a result of the shots and became quite the fussy child yesterday. Thankfully today he is back to his sweet self.

Alex has just started to smile and it is absolutely adorable. I haven't caught it on camera yet but we're working on it. He smiles the best for his daddy!
He sat in his Bumbo for the first time today! He did great holding his little head up. It is hard for me to believe that he is already in the Bumbo. I feel like he just got here. This summer has flown by!!
He LOVES bath time. It totally calms him down and gets him nice and sleepy and ready for bed. Right now we are putting him to bed about 9 and on most nights he sleeps until 4/4:30. There are some nights where he is up around 2:30 but these are becoming fewer and farther between.

Will is still obsessed with Alex. He calls him "My Baby Ax." He has started bring books to him and says "I read to my Baby Ax." Precious. We have been so lucky, at least so far, that he doesn't seem the least bit jealous. After those first 2 weeks when everyone had to settle in and transition, he has been so great. I love when I first get Alex up...Will runs over and says "Good Moanin' Baby Ax!"

Alex made his first trip to the beach last week (another post on our beach trip coming soon). He did AWESOME. We never traveled with Will so early so I had no idea what to expect. Alex is more laid back than Will and this did not change at the beach. He was super chill, very mellow, did whatever! We would bring him down to the beach in the morning and then back again about 4 and he would just snooze on a blanket or in his little bouncy seat. I guess the ocean sounded like his sound machine and he just thought he was supposed to sleep :)

I have joked to several people that someone should write "Babywise For the Second Child." We were super strict baby-wisers with Will. It worked very well with him. He has always been a great sleeper (at home). He is very much a child that thrives off of routine-we made him that way, I know...he was the only one we had to work around. He took basically every nap in his crib. Alex is lucky to get one good nap a day in his crib. In the morning, we are usually out and about so he just has to nap in his car seat. Thankfully he does great and usually will sleep while we run errands or play with Will at the park. It is not that he won't sleep in his crib (he has slept in there from day 1 when we came home from the hospital)...it is just that he rarely gets the opportunity during the day :) I start back to work on Monday and my mom will be keeping him here so I am figuring he will get into more of a routine then. I'll let my mom figure it out-ha!

I feel like we are finally operating smoothly as a family of 4. It gets easier every day. I know chaos is about to ensue when I start back to work on Monday, but we will figure it out.