Time flies...

I have finally told myself to sit down and write this dang thing, already...so here I am.

Life has been crazy, to say the least. I have never encountered something so overwhelming, exhausting, and difficult in all my life as having a child. I thought the labor was hard. I'd go through labor again any day compared to what raising a child is like.

I thought by now we'd be getting the hang of things. As it turns out, our son doesn't like to have a schedule. And he's throwing me for loops left and right. No one ever believes what I go through at home, because out in public, he's a perfect angel!

He's definitely fussier than I ever thought possible. I think he should be classified as a "sensitive" baby. The nice thing about that is that he doesn't like being in a poopy diaper for very long. I like that. But he cries at the smallest thing, and sometimes at nothing at all! Jon keeps telling me that he's just a baby; it's what babies do. I know that, but having to deal with it all day is overwhelming and exhausting!

Ethan doesn't like to nap (does any kid?). His definition of napping is 15-30 minutes on average, and then waking up screaming like a banshee. And he eats every 2 hours. He's growing so fast!

I wouldn't think that those numbers are anything to worry about, but I had to go and read up and do some research to see if my kid is normal. So now, depending on the source I read or what day of the week it is, what I'm doing for my child is wrong on some level. This is extremely confusing and depressing. No matter what advice I try to follow, something's not right. I've talked with a couple other moms who have now told me that I will drive myself crazy if I keep reading all of the books. I told Jon he should threaten to burn them.

It's hard because I've never been through this before, and I'm just trying to find out the right way to do everything. But what might be right for everyone may not work for my individual situation. This is very frustrating. Even talking to other moms about a variety of issues is hard.

But I do need to focus more on the positive. Our son is beautiful. He's healthy. He started sleeping through the night May 2 (2 days before his 2 month mark!). We've had a few interruptions lately, but I think he's hit another growth spurt. And speaking of that, the doctor reports Ethan's healthy as well.

His 2 month well baby visit was May 4. He weighed in at 13 pounds (and now you know why I call him Chunk). He was in the 50th percentile for his weight, the 55th percentile for his height (23.5 inches), but alllll the way in the 75th percentile for his head circumference. I have a Fathead! He's 16" around already!

I'm tired. It's 925pm and I have the nagging feeling someone is going to wake up again at 2am and want to eat. So I'm signing off for now. Hopefully it won't be another 2 months or so before I hop on here again.

Love to all! Delaney