8 Weeks...2 Months...WOW!!

Linnea is 8 weeks old today or I guess we could say 2 months! She is so much fun!! She definitely smiles a lot and is making new little sounds everyday. I think she is setting up a pretty good schedule for us...she still wakes up about two times a night but we get up between 7 and 8 everyday, eat, play and then nap. So things are going well. She is napping now, but when she wakes up we will take her 2 month growth picture with the elephant and post it.

We have been quite busy in the last two weeks! Here is what we have been up to:

Linnea and mommy went to an infant massage class at the same place daddy and I had our childbirth classes. It went fairly well! She made it through a leg and a half before she cried out in hunger. So we just watched the rest of the massage. It was fun to see the other babies and hear them communicate (cry) with each other. But as the class went on the babies all calmed down. We hopefully will attend another class and make it through a little more of the massage. An hour of touch is a long time for a baby though!

Linnea and mommy have also continued to go to their new parent group and have also decided to do some mall walking with a few other ladies in the group. I was a little nervous about getting the car seat in the stroller on my own but after practicing with the Chris the night before we did just fine. So Monday mornings you can find Linnea and I at the Mall of America walking around and around! She napped through most of it but did wake at the end and seemed to enjoy looking around.

Linnea made went to her first church service at the Woodbury Health Care Center with great grandma Thomas this past Thursday. She did very well! All the people and the pastor loved having a baby in the congregation. Especially one that pretty much slept the whole way through...she did some sleep smiling though too which was very cute!

For Valentines Day we headed over to grandpa and grandpa Henjums house in Woodbury for a brunch with the family. Erik, Lisa, Brian, Chris and I went bowling after we were done eating. It was the first time we left Linnea and I guess she did great! She ate and looked around and played with her cousin Dylan.

We are headed out to Woodbury again today to celebrate Grandma Thomas' 85th birthday.

This week we plan to go to our group again and do some mall walking and have some friends over to meet Linnea. Linnea also has to get her 2 month shots! YIKES! I have a feeling she will handle them better than mom will.

Speaking of handling things better than mom...its looking like she will be going to day care for the few months until summer while mommy goes back to work. I love the inhome place we found (thanks to our cousin Stefanie) and know she will be very well taken care of but it will still be very hard after being with her pretty much 24/7 for 12 weeks! So for the next 4 weeks we are going to just really cherish every moment together...even the screamfest moments which have been occurring anytime from 4-7pm!

Next weekend we are going on our first getaway! We will be staying in a cabin in Trego, WI while grandpa Keith skis the Korteloppet. Chris' parents and sister are coming to and so are some family friends! It should be a great time! Stay tuned for that post!