Chapter Two: Long Past Due...

Welcome to life with a baby! Things like blogging and journal-writing and couponing and emailing and anything else that requires two hands and a computer don't happen as easily as they once did :) We have been up to lots of adventures lately - mostly the baby-related kind.

JACK

At two months old, we think Jack is about 10.5 lbs (we'll find out tomorrow).
He sleeps through the night, from about 10:30 to 7:00. Sometimes he wakes up at 6:00 and cries a few minutes. If it doesn't last long, I stay in bed and he falls asleep again. We know we're super blessed that he's sleeping through the night. We pray multiple times a day that he'll keep doing it. Being up so much in the night was messing with my sanity. For the sake of everyone around, we're very grateful Jack decided to sleep well.
Naps are a work in progress. We're working establishing a flexible routine for the day, so that maybe he'll start getting sleepy around the same times each day and nap better. But I won't complain, because of that nighttime sleep!
He smiles ALL the time! Mainly when you stick out your tongue and go "la la la la la" at him. He loves it.
He just loves his play mat. He will stare at the toys hanging from it, and has lately begun batting at them with his hands, which often makes him smile.
He turns over front to back about half the time. Often he puts his arms down by his sides and then tries to roll, resulting in his arm being awkwardly in the way, which makes him mad and he cries because he can't figure out what to do with his arm. It's cute :)
He doesn't spit up much, maybe a little drooling after eating, and diapers are mostly okay, though we've started having these awesome blow-out-the-top-back of the diapers, which makes lots of laundry for Mommy...
He still loves bath time and even doesn't mind getting lotion on, as long as we dry him well and wrap him in a warm blanket for a minute first.
He loves his swing. Naps happen in it pretty frequently.
He gets excited when Daddy comes in the room and starts talking, he'll stop eating or turn his head and look for him.

We have been amazed in a happy way at how Jack arrived and turned our lives upside down and took it over completely. We're now one of those couples that will talk your ears off about our baby for far longer than you want us to, and we enjoy playing with him and just sitting and watching him.

As far as what's going on with US - Ryan is about to finish the junior core with accounting. Just a couple weeks more. We recently decided to pursue a PhD in accounting, so that means Ryan will graduate with the master's degree in April 2016 and then be off (somewhere) to PhD school for 4-5 more years. Hooray!

I am just working from home still, hanging out with Jack, and hanging out with Jack more. Ryan and I were just released from our callings as Relief Society president and bishopric counselor, and neither of us have new callings, so I feel a little lost sometimes - but I've gotten into indexing. It's more fun than I expected.

Ryan was able to bless Jack in church yesterday (for which Jack was happy and cooperative - yay!). We had a party afterward to celebrate.

And here are pictures!