Two months old!

Well it's definitely been a long two months that's for sure. Elin is thriving and getting a bit on the chunky side. Anya was a pretty small and skinny baby but Elin..... not so much!
She has several chins and Michelin Man arms and legs. Chubby babies sure are cute though.
The reason for her "beefiness" is her constant need to feed. She LOVES to nurse and I am getting quite good at finding things on my phone to occupy my time as I sit and feed her. There has been more then one occasion when Myles has found some piece of food on Elin and quizzically asked me where it came from. Well a nursing mom has to eat too and sometimes that requires me to do it while Elin is nursing and sometimes I drop food since I can't sit up at the table. Sheesh.

Elin has been smiling for four weeks now but the really good ones are just coming out. You can see her whole set of top gums and she giggles a bit too. She likes to have conversations and coos and responds when we talk to her. She particularly likes her Ahma and Diane Sweeney; both these ladies have the gift of baby gab apparently.

Anya is doing remarkably well with the addition of Elin to our family. We had a couple of rough weeks but I think we were also ironing out some "3" year old issues coupled with new baby. She has since returned to her normal sweet self and absolutely adores Elin. She does however think Elin looks like a boy but I do too so at least we are on the same page!

Sleeping you ask- oh yes, we don't do that anymore. No, it's actually not that bad. She usually gets up around 2am and again around 5. We have bad nights and easier nights but we knew what we were in for this time around. She is still in the room with us in her bassinet. I'm feeling brave and might be able to move her out after her first feeding into her room each night. I still check to make sure she is breathing often though so I'm not sure how this is going to go.

Elin can hear good enough to be woken by very noisy garbage trucks at 6am and Myles alarm at 4:45am. I was kind of hoping that the hard of hearing thing would lead to a very hard sleeper. Not the case here.
We had Elin's final hearing test last week. We were able to get all the results (finally) and have a good idea about her hearing loss right now. She will be fitted with her hearing aids for both ears on November 13th. We are excited to see the change. We are meeting with a Family Resource Coordinator next week and can set up our next steps to connect with other families and specialists in the area.

We traveled with Elin a few weeks ago. My friend Kelly Bratton got married at Lake Tahoe and we went down to celebrate the event. Anya stayed with Ahma and Bobpop and Elin came with us. It was soooo easy travelling with an infant. After having taken many plane rides with Anya and varying ages and infant is the absolute easiest age to take on a plane. Elin was amazing and the wedding was fabulous.

Anya has started Preschool this week and will go Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. It is a coop so I work sometimes and other times I just drop her off. It's only for 2 1/2 hours but it's great for both of us. She is enjoying it and meeting some nice new friends. Anya was a flower girl in my friend Drew's wedding this past weekend. She did a fabulous job and made sure to get every last petal out of her basket.