It’s been a month since I went back to work and Alex has had a lot of fun! He’s doing great staying with his daddy in the morning and his auntie in the afternoon, plenty of time to socialize and has a great routine now. He’s started to sleep in his crib for 6-8 hours a night in the room next to ours, although he’s still cosleeping when he’s not in the crib – he has trouble getting back to sleep after any night feedings. He can now laugh, grin, wiggle, grasp the bottle or breast and is batting at toys. He does well with tummy time, keeping his head up for long periods of time – I think he’ll be working on push ups soon! There’s a 5am party each morning with Mom and Dad when Mom is getting ready for work and Dad has to feed him, but other than that he sleeps well. He’s got great chubby cheeks and seems to be growing well – in fact, I have so much milk that I have to wear cloth diapers at night to keep from leaking, and we have nearly a hundred ounces of milk frozen – so I decided to apply to donate extra milk to a local milk bank for preemies and sick newborns to drink. Hooray! All that milk makes a lot of diapers, but not too bad – we definitely found that Gdiapers didn’t work for us, so we ordered some Bumgenius Flip diapers and will be trying them when they ship. We heard about them at the awesome Bradley reunion last Sunday, where we got to see Meisha and Henry and some of the other babies from the class and tell our birth stories – it was really great to see everyone! It seems Alex isn’t the only kid with persistent cradle cap, either – I spied a few cases while I was there. He’s into playing now, in the play gym, with his toys, in the swing, and we have a lullaby and dancing selection in his room now for his entertainment. He smiles practically anytime he sees someone smiling at him, which is really enjoyable but makes it hard to leave in the morning. We even have conversations now where we talk and babble back and forth – he’s very active and talkative, which makes it fun. On the plus side, Mom’s getting back in shape really well, almost back down to the prepregnancy weight and we just bought a Mom and Baby yoga/pilates/dancing/playing video that looks really good – we watched it last night to see! All in all, a great 2nd month and Alex will turn 3 months old on Monday.