Piper @ 2 Months

Piper's second month celebration was bittersweet. We spent the day in the hospital with her Grandma Stacie (Tyler's mom) while she underwent a double-mastectomy for breast cancer that was detected just a few weeks earlier. Her doctors caught it in time to reduce all risk and she doesn't need to have radiation or chemotherapy. Thank goodness... this is her second battle with cancer and she's come out kicking both times!

Piper is almost 12 pounds now and 24 inches long! That means she'd grown an average of two inches per month since her birth date. At this rate, she'll outgrow me before she's two years old! LOL! Her legs are starting to fill out and her face is rounding... her eyes are a beautiful dark blue and, according to the pediatrician, not likely to change color. Strange... Tyler and I each have an aunt with blue eyes... but that is it... we're curious to see if this eye-color sticks around or if they'll eventually turn green/hazel like our own.

Our little girl smiles ALL THE TIME... and with that new round face and those baby blues, she's beginning to look almost identical to my baby pictures. I'll have to post a comparison... its a trip! But she also waffles back and forth between looking Tyler and looking like me. We get many compliments about how she is a perfect mix of both of our traits... we're so excited to watch her grow!

She received two vaccines at the pediatricians office this month and handled it like a champ! It barely phased her and she didn't any Tylenol to ease the pain (a very proud moment for us). She still has the "fresh milk" small and her skin is so soft we can't help but snuggle her all the time.

I've started back in the office part-time and I'm working the rest of my regular hours from home. It's been wonderful to have the extra time to transition... I won't need to go back to the office full-time until January :) When I do head into the office for a few hours each week, its difficult not to obsess about Piper! I think of her constantly and miss her so much... even for just a few short hours. It helps knowing she's in wonderfully loving and capable hands with Tyler's cousin Robbie, who's offered to be our care provider since we'll both continue working. Robbie just adores her! When she's at home with me and I'm working she spends many hours asleep in her cradle swing from Grandpa Maxon. I'm grateful that she's such a good sleeper and that I'm able to get so much done from home...

Here she is smiling at 2 months. Filling out and
starting to look and act like a real baby :) She's lost a
lot of that awkward newborn-ness.