Dearest Auggie,

You’re two months! You’re actually almost three months but thats life! And to keep things accurate I’ll only be updating on things relative to month two and such 😉

YOU DONT SLEEP (Still accurate almost to month three…but I digress). In all fairness you did give us two consecutive nights with 5-6 hour first stretches, but those days are long gone. I’m not sure what I did to jinx it, but at any moment if you feel led to try again, I promise I’ll praise you more than I did before. I documented it with a photo (I’ll attach that below) and thought I bragged on you enough, but maybe you needed more? Who knows! I really enjoyed getting into a sleep deep enough to dream even though they revolved around breastfeeding and prison (don’t ask). Either way, any day now you can get back to it and I wouldn’t say boo.

Every morning you wind up in our bed (you’ve moved to your co sleeper daddy built) and if I keep your hands from doing their little startle reflex, you let me sleep in which is pretty amazing. You still are gassy as ever and suddenly like to spit up, but all in all I think you’re a pretty easy little nugget and I can’t tell you how much fun you are to be around. Every little “oooooh” and “gooooo” sound of excitement has us making all the baby sounds we can to convince you to give us more. Sheppard likes to try and make you giggle and while you haven’t done that yet, I’m sure he will be the one to scare one out of you first.

I worked a lot this month and you really were amazing through it all. You tagged along to several of my sessions and took bottles for Daddy while I pulled an all day shift at the Christmas Tree Farm. The highlight of this month for me was our trip to the park with your bothers. They brought their bikes and you slept on my chest in your sling and I just soaked it all in. We were surviving! I was doing it! Since then, I’ve had plenty of not surviving/not making it moments….but in that afternoon there was a breeze and your sweet little sleeping sounds and laughter from the big guys. I really do think you are what completes us and I’m so thankful for that blessing. It makes it all worth it to picture your future as brothers and friends.

As far as the boring things go, you don’t have a schedule….no bed time, feed on demand, and everything I’ve always NOT done. The thing is, there isn’t a lifestyle here for schedules just yet and we are so thankful that you just roll with it for us. Keep that up as a trade off for the no sleep for us thing okay? I’m fine with a trade whenever you’re ready. Did I mention I’d like to sleep again?

My goodness I love you. Let’s slow this growing thing down a bit and get to staying little forever. You think I’m kidding…….

Enjoy the baby candy that is you below…..