Two months!

Look who is two months old (as of last Tuesday, actually, but I had to wait for Sean to be home to take this picture, so that he could hover over V just in case she suddenly learned how to fling herself off of a chair).

This second month has been a lot more fun than the first - it's not that I feel like we know what we're doing or anything, but we have settled into some form of a routine and I feel like I understand what V needs, more or less anyway. We really are lucky because she is so not a fussy baby (though I always jinx myself when I say that - V, please don't keep us up tonight, thank you in advance!). She has also become a very smiley baby, and a chatty one - lots of cooing (and other strange noises) going on. I wonder if a chatty baby = a chatty kid eventually? How much of a baby's personality stays with them as they get older?

On the downside for this last month - I've had back pain ever since getting pregnant. We thought that after I had the baby, the pain would go away, and it did up until last week when it came back with a vengeance. I've hardly been able to walk over the past 3-4 days, which obviously makes taking care of V by myself challenging. On Friday I went to see my doctor and had some xrays taken, but nothing showed up so they want me to come in for an MRI. I also went to an acupuncturist for the first time, and it was pretty interesting. Maybe it's just a placebo effect, but I totally felt like I could feel my blood flowing and tingling in my legs. I got the acupuncture on Friday and on Saturday I was in the worst pain yet, but by Sunday I felt SO much better. I'm still hobbling around, but I can move, so that's great. I'm going in for another acupuncture session tonight, so hopefully it will help some more!