two months of marlow

Two whole months of you have gone in the blink of an eye. It feels like you have been part of our lives always. Your character is starting to become clear - you are oh so sassy, know exactly what you like and LOVE cuddles and being around me and your dad.

With the second month have come some difficult evenings in which you simply can't be soothed. We both have tactics to calm you down, I rock you and repeat a shushing sound in your ear or nurse you on the breast, but the most successful way to calm you often comes when you are held high on your dad’s chest, nuzzled into him while he walks around with you. My little daddy's girl. It's difficult watching you hurting as you go from carefree smiling and babbling one second to scrunching your face up in pain the next. Luckily these nights aren't every night, and vary in severity but we are focusing on staying calm to comfort you, and taking each day as it comes until it passes.

With each month that passes you become more and more a part of our lives and there is so much I would like to remember from this month:

• You are giving us the biggest smiles now and I love watching your face erupt into a grin.

• You are completely at ease in our bed and starfish in between us while you are half asleep sometimes.

• You are a morning person, and I really enjoy our happy, sleepy, relaxed mornings together.

• You are starting to fill out all your clothes, but you haven't outgrown anything yet as you are very dainty.

• You wiggle those little tootsies and have started to notice them and stare at them in bemusement.

• When you are nursing you wave your free arm around now and grasp my necklace or shirt so tight, and it melts my heart.