Alice: 2 Months

Weight:  10 lbs 4 oz

Height:  22 inches

Appearance changes:  Filling out with a rounder face and chunkier thighs

New Skills:  Makes more cooing sounds, smiles, gets excited, can hold head up well

Stephen's Nicknames:  Bo Bo (a derivative of Alice Bo-Balice)  He pretty much calls her Bo Bo all the time now.  It's pretty cute.

Megan's Nicknames:  Baby girl, Love, Cuddle bug, Miss Wide Awake (this nickname is particular to those times in the middle of the night when she decides she doesn't want to sleep anymore)

Likes:  To sleep on mine or Stephen's chest, being bounced in her bouncy chair

Dislikes:  Not being held, when I blow my nose (seriously, it makes her cry)

Entertainment (what she finds entertaining):  She still loves staring at the fan but now she likes to see it spin.  She also loves staring at her mobile when I make it spin.

Firsts:  She cried with tears for the first time.  (Babies' tear ducts don't work until after a month old)  This happened on the 10 minute car ride from the grocery store to home.  She cried in the car seat the whole way and when we got home I went to get her out of the car seat and she had tears running down her face and a pouty lip.  It was so adorably sad.

On the other end of the spectrum, on October 24th she smiled for real for the first time.  What I mean by "for real" is that it was in reaction to something, not just a random face.  All day that day I had been trying to get her to smile, Stephen and I had made it a bit of a competition to see who could make her smile first.  I predicted that it would be Stephen.  I was nursing Alice when Stephen got home from work.  As soon as she heard his voice she stopped nursing and watched him until I gave her to him.  Then he started being goofy with her and in just a few minutes he got her to smile!  It was really cute.

In general she has gotten a lot more expressive.

I wasn't able to get any real good pictures of her big smile but here are some of what I did get.

We call this her "concerned face"

This is her pirate face "Arrrgh!"

This is her sitting up against the couch, right before she fell over.

 General adorableness:

I also added a tab next to the "The Bump" tab that has her month by month pictures so you can compare better.

Vote!

In case you didn't get enough of voting yesterday, I have something very important for you to vote on today.

It is vital to the success of this nation.

Just kidding.

I'm just wondering if you think Alice looks more like me or Stephen :o)

It's a question we've been asking ourselves since she was born but neither Stephen nor I know the answer.

It's so hard to tell because all her features still look like baby features and like no one in particular.

So I took some of Stephen and my baby pictures to see if we could tell from that.

Here is what I've got.

Now before you look at the pictures, don't make the mistake that most people make, which is jumping to the conclusion that two people look alike because they are posed the same.  You have to look at specific features to really tell similarities.

Now take a look and vote!

Stephen and Alice:

Me and Alice: