Just an update

Here are some of the little things that have been going on around our house this week:

• Arthur had his 2-month checkup and he's doing great!  He's a little chunk at 13.6 lbs and 23.75" long.  He's in the 75th percentile for weight, length, and head circumference, so he's proportional.  But man, he sure does seem chunky!  He's meeting all of his milestones and the pediatrician had no concerns.
• MY concern is that he still spits up.  A LOT.  (The doctor's not worried since Arthur's gaining weight so well and it doesn't seem to bother him, but he doesn't have to do my laundry!)  I seriously go though 3-4 shirts a day.  I went so far as to give up everything with the milk protein in it, because apparently that's a common cause.  This means not only no milk, cheese, ice cream, etc., but also nothing with milk in it whatsoever.  Microwave popcorn with light butter?  Out.  Arnold whole wheat bread?  Nope.  Honey Bunches of Oats cereal?  Can't have that either.  Even my calcium chews have milk in them!  After a few days of this, I really couldn't tell any difference, so I gave up.  Then yesterday I had a theory and tried something new - I know I have a strong letdown, so I tried leaning way back while I'm feeding Arthur.  WOW that made a difference!  This is way easier than major dietary changes!  Again he still spits up some, but nothing like before.
• Eleanor is now out of diapers and only wears pull ups.  We knew it was time when she started telling us she needed her diaper changed immediately after she went every time.  We're not making a huge deal out of potty training, but we do put her on the potty several times a day and whenever she asks.  Yesterday was our best day yet - she peed in the potty 5 times! 
• Eleanor loves all of the Christmas excitement.  She especially loves playing with her Little People Nativity Set (a GREAT Christmas gift that she got from some good friends on her first Christmas), and she cracks me up every time she plays with them.  Once she was playing with Mary and a sheep and started singing "Mary had a little lamb."  Yesterday she talked about how the shepherds wanted to eat pancakes at the dinner table and then lined everybody up to go eat pancakes.
  
  
  
  She also loves all of her Christmas books (I put them away 11 months of the year) and looking at the ornaments on the tree.  I put wrapped presents under the tree and she hasn't even tried to touch them.  I don't think she gets that there are fun things for HER in some of those boxes!
• Eleanor has also recently gotten really into her Legos.  The other day she wanted us to build a Christmas tree out of Legos...I thought that was rather creative.
  
• Arthur is sleeping better and better each night - the night before last he only got up to eat one time!  When I woke up and realized what time it was, I nearly had a heart attack and ran up the stairs as fast as I could.  Of course, he was sound asleep but I couldn't go back to sleep.  There was no repeat performance last night (still, only up twice), but I'm hopeful it will happen again soon!
• A few Eleanor quotes...  While on a walk:  "Run, run, as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm the Eleanor!"  Singing:  "Rudolph the red-nosed banana had a very shiny nose, all of the other bananas used to even say it glows..."

I guess that's about it around here!  I'll leave you with some more pictures!