Our Little Princess is TWO MONTHS OLD

I've been terrible about blogging lately.  Granted, I've had some pretty good excuses:

- I have two kids under two.
- A summer cold has swept through our house, and then swept through our house again.
- I started back at work this week.
- Oh...and we bought the home of our dreams.  :)  (This point deserves some elaboration, and I will definitely do that once I've managed to check some tasks off of my ever-increasing to-do list.  For now, let me just say how blessed we feel to have found such a beautiful place to raise our family.  We can't wait to plant some roots and move forward with this next phase of our lives.)

This post is about our gorgeous girl, though.  She's two months old today, which is altogether unbelievable to me.  We've had a big month in terms of her development!  More often than not, she only wakes up once a night, usually after 6 or 7 hours, and then goes back down for another 2 or 3.  She's a bit of an early riser, starting to stir around 6:30 am, so that's something we'll have to work on -- but all in all, she's a much better sleeper at two months old than Gavin was at ten months old.  (And we finally got her sleeping in her own room!)  She's still wearing 0-3 month clothes, but she seems to be filling out a bit and looking more like a "baby" than a "newborn".  She smiles all the time, giggles in her sleep, and loves to be swaddled and held tightly.  Everyone loves her so much, including her big brother.  As for me -- well, I'm borderline obsessed.  Here are some photos I took to commemorate this exciting month:

And some of the budding friendship between brother and sister:

Gavin is a fantastic big brother and is always wanting to help me with Baylor's day-to-day care.  He loves bringing me her diaper caddy and gets upset when she doesn't want to play on her playmat or sit in her swing.  I can't wait to see their relationship bloom as his language skills continue to grow and she gets more animated and mobile!  Having two kids is definitely A LOT more work, but seeing them together makes the extra struggle absolutely worthwhile.

Happy two month birthday, beautiful girl!