2 Months Old

We went to the Virginia Air and Space Museum today in Hampton, where M & J are taking a mini-gymnastics camp this week. While at the museum we weighed Simon at an exhibit where you can see how much you weigh on different planets. Much better than trying to weigh him in the grocery store produce scales (I got reprimanded by a salesperson for doing that before the weight registered). He weighs 12 pounds. On Earth. Maybe he is more like a whole bag of peanuts now instead of just one peanut.
He is also figuring out his hands, sucking his fingers and holding his head up. He smiles and coos these really cute baby poetry stanzas...and he kicks and kicks and kicks his little legs. They would be almost chubby but they are just too toned to be called chubby. He likes to lie on the floor by the sliding glass door and bat at the vertical blinds. He also still loves being outside, loves the fountain, the jets overhead and staring at lamps and windows. He likes it when we prop him up with pillows in the living room and he can just look around like he is a big person. Sometimes we forget about him and then someone looks over and he has fallen over face down and just lies there, staring at the couch.
For a 2 month old, he has really been around--already flown across the country, dipped his feet in the Atlantic Ocean, ridden in a subway, a bus, a taxi, a car and an airplane. He has spent the night in the states of New York, Oregon, Washington and Virginia. He has been on a 10 hour roadtrip.
He still cries, but nothing like what it was before. He responds if you pick him up or go outside or talk to him. We can see the light at the end of the colic tunnel. He has another cranio-sacral appointment next week and a pediatrician appointment this week to check on his fontanel.
I think he even has a touch of the cold that has been circulating in our family. Tonight Brett is coming down with it, which is a bummer since he gets up before 5am tomorrow to work a 10 hour day in the field in 92 degree weather that feels like 100 with humidity. I suspect Jonah will have it too since he pretty much fell asleep at 6 pm tonight. Sigh.
I can't believe the whirlwind that has been the past 2 months. I am still processing it all, the birth of Simon, our trip to the NW, moving to Virginia for the summer. Many blog posts have been started and just haven't made it to the final stages...they will just have to be out of order when they make it there. In the meantime, I am working on Maya and Jonah's school plans for the year--they are due to the Board of Education in a week. Can't believe summer is nearly winding down and a new school year getting ready to start.