2 Months Old!

Time sure has flown by...2 months already!  It's really hard to remember what life was like without Caitlin (although I think I had smaller bags under my eyes)!  I think it's fair to say that Caitlin has had a rough 2 months of life.  She has what her pediatrician is calling an "abnormal" case of colic and reflux.  Basically it's "abnormal" because she cries all the time, where normal colic is usually 3 hours at the same time of day...and if you spent a day in our house, you'd understand why we'd do anything for 3 hours of crying...we are more like 8-12 hours of crying a day.  We feel terrible for her and are doing everything we can to help her.  She has seen her pediatrician so much that she actually gave us her home number so we can just call her directly!  We have tried different types of medicine, but don't seem to be finding the right combo.  The good news is the dr. doesn't think it's anything serious because Caitlin has been sleeping very good for us...she usually goes to sleep around 11 and gets up only 2-3 times during the night.  The dr said if it was more serious, she'd cry all night too!  However, in the last 2 weeks, Caitlin has not gained any weight at all (she lost 1 ounce and weights 8lbs 6 oz) so we have to figure this out soon. We are seeing a pediatric gastroentologist at Central Dupage next week and hoping he'll have some answers, or at least some suggestions to help.  The good news is colic usually disappears around 3 months (from the due date) so we technically only have 6 more weeks (maybe less) of this!

Caitlin is the sweetest baby!  She has the most beautiful big blue eyes (and yes, we think they will become brown like Abigail...but the pictures show the beauty of them) that light up our lives!  While we aren't getting smiles all the time, every once in a while, she'll give us a little mouth-open smile that makes our hearts melt...we can't wait till she feels better and the smiles come more and more!  She is our cuddle bug and loves to be close to us!  She's become my little buddy and I know I'm going to look back one day and miss the time when the only thing that made her happy was me holding her!  :)   Caitlin loves her paci, but what's so cute is if she doesn't have her paci, she sucks her middle fingers.  It's really cute, but we want to keep giving her the paci so she doesn't become a thumb sucker.  We hear it's much easier to break a kid of a paci than of sucking her thumb! But it's really cute to see her sucking her fingers!

We just love her more than anything and are so happy to have 2 amazing, sometimes loud, but wonderful months with her!

2 months

Blue Eyes

Our little snuggle bug

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Comparison Pics

Newborn in her seat

2 months in her seat

Newborn with her lamb

2 months with her lamb

We love you Caitlin!!!!!!!