2 months: for the Upham girls

This post is dedicated to the Upham girls: Susan, Julie, Noelle, and Abby.  The last photo shoot did not contain any obnoxious hair pieces for Blakely, so this big, ridiculous, green flower that is larger than her head, is JUST for you girls!  Love you guys!
Yesterday our little booger turned 2 months old!  We don't go in for her 2 month checkup until Friday- so the measurments will come then. 

As you can see, she started smiling!  I mean, for REAL smiling.  And every single day she smiles more and more.  Her favorite person to "perform" for is Stephen.  She LOVES her daddy!  She is starting to "coo" and I think she is attempting to laugh.  It is hilarious.  I was so exhausted this morning when she woke me up at 5am to feed her, but she was in the best mood she has ever been in.  It was the sweetest thing.  I didn't have the heart to put her straight to bed, so we played a little...

Speaking of good moods, she is having more of those lately.  We are still here in OKC, and she sure has made a liar out of me and her "colic."  My parents don't believe for one second that their sweet grandbaby screams like I say she does.  Ha!  I'm ok with her turning a corner here at their house as long as the screaming doesn't return as we pull out of their driveway to go home tomorrow...
We threw out all baby advice and just decided to do our own thing, or Blakely's own thing.  She eats when she wants, sleeps when she wants, and is awake when she wants.  No schedule, just whatever makes her happy.  She still has a spell or two a day, but this seems to be working much better for us! 

We have learned a lot about Blakely this past month.  She needs alone time!  I lay her down at least once a day asleep, and come in later to find that she is wide awake just playing by herself.  But she also has a needy side.  Sometimes she will be playing on the floor in the living room and start screaming, and will be just fine when someone starts paying attention to her. 

She loves to stand up on our laps.  She can hold all of her weight up with just me balancing her.  She can also pretty much hold her head up all the time.  She has a few floppy times when she gets tired. 

She has rolled over front to back a few times.  One day she was just so sick of tummy time that she rolled herself over in anger several times, but she really hasn't done it since. 

She broke her own sleeping record a few nights ago and went 8, yes thats right, EIGHT hours in between eating!  I got a solid 6 hours of sleep, uninterupted!  It was fabulous.  But also short lived.  Baby steps. 

She is still wearing a lot of her newborn clothes, but even some 0-3month clothes are too short for her. 

Barbara- my parents dog, is just dying for a lick of Blakely.  I think she has snuck a few in when we weren't looking.  But who wouldn't want a lick of that milk-face?