My growing boy!

It's been a while since my last post--forever in baby time! Eli is now 10 weeks old. It's amazing how much he changes in such a short time. His weight isn't even the most dramatic of changes, and that's saying something! At his two month appointment a week ago, he weighed in at 14.5 lbs, from a birth weight of 8.5. Wow! Even more dramatic than that, though, is the development of his personality. He's rarely quiet these days. He spends most of his time babbling and smiling at lights and tracking people's movements around the room. Derrin (oops, Daddy) has gotten him to copy noises--particularly, the word "yay". Of course, he won't do it when we try to show anyone or pull out a camera, but it does happen!

He seems to love lights for some reason. If the lights are on in a room, you can bet he's staring at them. Mom and I walked into Costco last week and his eyes almost bugged out of his head when he saw all the lights! He also enjoyed the pig face on my mom's Redskins pillow pet. We have to get him a Giants one so there's no bad influence on his team allegiance. Sierra plays with him all the time. He always grins when she giggles.

He's started wearing cloth diapers the last couple weeks, to save some money. That makes me officially "one of those" crazy babywearing, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, cloth diapering moms. Yep, I'm kind of a hippie.

Here's the dramatic change between birth and now:

Minutes after birth (10/18/11)

Christmas Day, almost 10 weeks old!

And here's a Christmas picture for good measure:

Hopefully I'll be better about posting from now on!