Jacob at 2 months
Our littlest O'Neal turned two months old on Wednesday. To say he's gigantic is an understatement. A lady at the grocery store two weeks ago mistook him for a four-month-old. On Thursday I took him to playgroup in some hand-me-down overalls from Ella, ones that Ella wore when she was about 10 months old. Now, Ella is a petite young lass, but still. Jacob is a b-r-u-i-s-e-r. I can't wait to see how he tips the scales at his two-month appointment, which for scheduling reasons won't be happening until May 1.
It's funny, when they're this little, what a difference even a week can make. About two weeks ago, Jacob officially stopped being a total goo-ball. He can turn his head at will to watch whatever captures his interest. When something does catch his eye, he gets really excited and waves his little arms and stomps his little legs like a crazy person, coos or ah-goos, or even smiles. His smile is truly something to behold, and I desperately wish I could catch it on film. When he smiles, he does it with his mouth wide open to show off his pink toothless gums, and his eyes get narrow and crinkled. He looks slightly like a benevolent Jabba the Hut. Unfortunately, when he's in his blissful smiley state he's usually moving around, making it rough to get a good shot. This is the closest I've come yet, and it's embarrassingly blurry and at the fading end of smile:
I did a little better on this movie. He didn't quite make it to full-smile, but you can bask in a hint of the joyous rapture that is the full-smile, and the video also nicely illustrates how excited he gets to hear his mommy babble on at him like a loon:
The other person who really fires him up is his big brother. If he is sitting and fussing and Isaac comes to sit next to him, Jacob will stop whatever fit he was throwing to openly ogle Big Brother. And Big Brother has done wonderfully with him, which deserves its own extended blog post. Isaac likes to give Jacob hugs and kisses, and then likes to praise himself, saying "That's so nice" or "That's so cute" as he has heard the elder O'Neals praise him in these acts before. Here is a video of me watching Jacob watching Isaac, who is playing with his ride-on Thomas. When the song ends, Isaac notices that I am taking a movie of Jacob and comes over to help. In my forceful I'm-filming-this-now-do-your-baby-tricks way, I suggest he should kiss Jacob. Of course, Isaac kisses the Jacob he sees on my camera. As the movie ends, he goes over to kiss the real Jacob, which of course my stupid camera didn't catch. Can you tell I'm in the mood to camera-shop lately?
I am also impressed at how well Jacob tolerates me reading to him. Dada likes to infer that Jacob will be an even bigger genius than his older brother, if that is possible, because of how much he was read to in the womb. Naturally, when I combine his two loves of books and Isaac by reading to the two of them together, he sits so quietly and peacefully for shocking periods of time. He is also starting to be interested in touching and looking at toys, and gets excited when he accidentally swings his Kong-sized arm into something dangling over his bouncy seat.
Right now he is taking 3 naps a day and sleeping pretty well at night. Wednesday night he slept for 6 hours, something Isaac didn't do, ever, until he was 9 or 10 months old. Jacob and I are cosleeping now so as to keep his food supply at the ready when he does wake up, but Dada is going to reclaim his post as the cosleeper with the mommy sometime this weekend when he gets around to reassembling the crib. I must say that, while Dada is nice and all, he doesn't always smell as nice as Jacob. And he definitely hogs a lot more of the bed.
It's funny, when they're this little, what a difference even a week can make. About two weeks ago, Jacob officially stopped being a total goo-ball. He can turn his head at will to watch whatever captures his interest. When something does catch his eye, he gets really excited and waves his little arms and stomps his little legs like a crazy person, coos or ah-goos, or even smiles. His smile is truly something to behold, and I desperately wish I could catch it on film. When he smiles, he does it with his mouth wide open to show off his pink toothless gums, and his eyes get narrow and crinkled. He looks slightly like a benevolent Jabba the Hut. Unfortunately, when he's in his blissful smiley state he's usually moving around, making it rough to get a good shot. This is the closest I've come yet, and it's embarrassingly blurry and at the fading end of smile:
I did a little better on this movie. He didn't quite make it to full-smile, but you can bask in a hint of the joyous rapture that is the full-smile, and the video also nicely illustrates how excited he gets to hear his mommy babble on at him like a loon:
The other person who really fires him up is his big brother. If he is sitting and fussing and Isaac comes to sit next to him, Jacob will stop whatever fit he was throwing to openly ogle Big Brother. And Big Brother has done wonderfully with him, which deserves its own extended blog post. Isaac likes to give Jacob hugs and kisses, and then likes to praise himself, saying "That's so nice" or "That's so cute" as he has heard the elder O'Neals praise him in these acts before. Here is a video of me watching Jacob watching Isaac, who is playing with his ride-on Thomas. When the song ends, Isaac notices that I am taking a movie of Jacob and comes over to help. In my forceful I'm-filming-this-now-do-your-baby-tricks way, I suggest he should kiss Jacob. Of course, Isaac kisses the Jacob he sees on my camera. As the movie ends, he goes over to kiss the real Jacob, which of course my stupid camera didn't catch. Can you tell I'm in the mood to camera-shop lately?
I am also impressed at how well Jacob tolerates me reading to him. Dada likes to infer that Jacob will be an even bigger genius than his older brother, if that is possible, because of how much he was read to in the womb. Naturally, when I combine his two loves of books and Isaac by reading to the two of them together, he sits so quietly and peacefully for shocking periods of time. He is also starting to be interested in touching and looking at toys, and gets excited when he accidentally swings his Kong-sized arm into something dangling over his bouncy seat.
Right now he is taking 3 naps a day and sleeping pretty well at night. Wednesday night he slept for 6 hours, something Isaac didn't do, ever, until he was 9 or 10 months old. Jacob and I are cosleeping now so as to keep his food supply at the ready when he does wake up, but Dada is going to reclaim his post as the cosleeper with the mommy sometime this weekend when he gets around to reassembling the crib. I must say that, while Dada is nice and all, he doesn't always smell as nice as Jacob. And he definitely hogs a lot more of the bed.
posted by Claire at 7:54 PM
1 Comments:
Great pics and video! Liam was a buddha too. Huge. Can't wait to see how he does at his 2 mos check up. We can compare big baby notes. And I look forward to hearing more on how Isaac is doing adjusting to everything.
Oh and hope Jacob's sleep continues in it's current pattern!!
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