Slowly, but Surely

JD had his 2 month doctor's appointment on Tuesday, which also meant he got his shots. :( However, the nurses said he did a really good job. As soon as I picked him up to hold him, he stopped crying. It looked painful. JD now weighs at 10 lbs 10 1/2 oz, and is 23 inches long! He is in the very low percentile for everything... he doesn't even reach the 20th percentile. I guess it's to be expected since I am not very tall/big myself. JD has been cooing a lot lately. Every morning (at least when I don't have anything to do early in the day), I prop him on my legs so that we're both looking at each other, and he smiles and will "talk" to me. It makes waking up early a little more... "enjoyable" (for lack of a better word).

We recently decided that it was time to have JD get use to his crib. He has been sleeping with us whenever he cries and doesn't want to sleep by himself, and since we're exhausted, we were too lazy to stay up and wait til he was finally asleep to put him back into his crib, we just kept him with us in bed (I know... not the best idea). So, we've been having him cry it out. I caved in the first few nights, but last night was the first time I didn't cave. I was very tempted, but Justin made sure I would stand my ground. He cried for about an hour until he finally went to sleep. He then woke up at 4:30 to eat, and immediately went back to sleep so it was easy to put him back into his crib. At 6, he woke up again, and kept going in and out of sleep for the next two hours, meaning he would cry every time he'd wake up, and we were pretty tired. :( I'll be excited for the day he goes to sleep in his crib and only cries for a few minutes and falls right to sleep. I'll be even more excited when he falls asleep soundly in his crib. (Will that ever happen?) Here's to the next few weeks (hopefully no longer than that), without a decent nights sleep again. Cheers!

 (ignore the girly blanket as the background :D)