Silas has just recently started really laughing, and this afternoon, Shannon got him going good!

Shannon tried tossing Silas up in the air the other day, and he loved it! You can hear his laugh, too, which he’s just started recently.

We got a plot in the nearby community garden, so were quite excited to start planting some things in it. We’re trying green onions, garlic, carrots, purple carrots, broccoli, red peppers, green peppers, spinach, and mini tomatoes. We were supposed to start the tomatoes and peppers indoors a few weeks ago and then transplant them, but we were a little late starting and decided to just plant the seeds outside anyway and see what happens!

Silas is starting to make all sorts of fun noises, like cooing, screeching, squawking, etc. It’s great fun to watch, and to try talking to him and seeing him respond! When he’s in a good mood (especially after feeding, and often while lying on his change table, as he is here), he can be quite talkative.

Silas is a pretty active little boy, so we decided to try putting him in the jolly jumper when he was only 2 1/2 months old. He’s still working on the head support, and you can see he’s a little wobbly in the video (we made sure to be close by so we could catch him!), but he’s not too bad! It’ll be fun to watch him start to get the hang of it.

In the first few weeks after Silas was born, I put together a few video clips we had taken. Welcome to our family, Silas!

This week Jason goes away for 4 days for a work conference. WHAT WILL I DO? Oh boy. Makes me think a lot about single parents. How do they do it? It’s so nice to have someone else around to hold Silas for a bit so I can get things done, or just give my shoulder a break.

So what does a two month old DO?

I’m smiling a lot today. Something about a starbucks coffee in hand, a bit of freedom, and some beautiful cherry blossom trees….

I knew there was a lot to adjust to in new motherhood- however, the WAYS I have had to adjust I never expected. Dealing with insomnia night after night has been sooo frustrating, and I never expected to have issues with it. Since week three I have struggled with getting to sleep or getting back to sleep after feeding Silas. He’s been sleeping well- sometimes even for 4 hours straight! But then I’m lying there in bed, staring at the ceiling. This has been a huge trial and hurdle. I have done everything in the book to help me get to sleep- wine, gravol, other sleeping pills, baths, walks, massages, etc etc etc. I feel so helpless and frustrated, and that I’m somehow not ‘cutting it’ as a mother. I’m supposed to be the one up all night feeding and taking care of Silas so that Jason can get a good nights’ rest and go to work the next day and he’s often needing to stay up to put him back to sleep or feed him a bottle of expressed milk just so I can somehow manage to get a minimum amount of sleep. When will this end????? I can’t nap (have never been able to…) I just pray and hope that this doesn’t go on forever and that Silas somehow manages to start sleeping longer in the night cause I’m not sure how long I can manage like this.