2 Months

Last night we celebrated Lilly Rose's 2 month birthday. JJ brought bundtini's - tiny bundt cakes from Nothing Bundt Cakes, a shop in Dallas. We had Chocolate, White Chocolate Raspberry, and Red Velvet. All were delicious. In the past 24 hours, I've managed to eat 6, so I am making sure Lilly Rose has a taste of them too. She needs to be able to take part in the celebratory eating as well!

It's been a great (not always easy) two months. It's official at work - my desk was cleaned out Friday and I am getting the contents this week. I've turned in my keys, complete with my Hornets keychain and all. So now I am ready for the next chapter. I've picked up some forms to volunteer (have to complete a background check, fingerprints and all) at a school, so will get that done in the next few days. I am sad, I got anxious yesterday as we drove out to Target, as the 'officiality' of no longer being at work, hit me. It really snuck up on me. I thought I was doing fine, but so much of one's identity is caught up in work. It's usually the first question someone asks, what do you do?, that it's weird to not say I work at the Museum. But will get the fingerprints done and then mail my form to the police, so they can run my check.

And Lilly continues to be gassy. Going to continue cutting out soy. It's not fun to see her legs all scrunched up, fists balled and hear high pitched screams. The pacifier soothes her as does burping (we've had several loud ones this evening - Mark would be proud) and farting. She's been keenly interested in her new mobile. We can put her in the pack and play and turn the mobile on (it plays several songs) and she can just stare and stare and stare at it. She's very much interested in it. She also has made some friends with her doll and black and white dog (both from Aunt Joan) and her pink teddy bear (from Grandpa David) which are also in the pack and play. Her staring makes me wonder what's she thinking as she looks at them. Is she concocting stories, thoughts, about them? Or is she just staring at them? They are more her size than we are, so maybe she feels more at home. Anyway, check out the video below.