Scheffler's Two Month Post

Two short months in and Scheffler had already survived his first road trip. We traveled to St. Louis to spend some extended time with my family and take part in a huge Scheffler Family Reunion. Scheffler did not take too well the the excessive heat and humidity of St. Louis or all the new people at the reunion. I can easily say that the three day stretch of the reunion remains his worst stretch of life to date. He cried almost the entire time. Took terrible naps. And constantly wanted to be held. Forget taking that kid outside, which was tough because most of the reunion activities were outside. But we survived and he kept thriving, despite a bout with thrush. Looking back this 1-2 month stretch was our worst for a several reasons. The reunion that threw him off, dealing with thrush and I returned to work. It was a transition for everyone. Luckily by the time I returned to Fall sports, Scheffler was sleeping from 10-11:00pm until about 5-6:00am. It was great. There were many mornings I was waking up before him to get to football practice. Returning to work was hard with two kids because your time becomes more limited and now you're splitting it between two kids. Henry was still trying understand why I had to feed Scheffler every time and it couldn't ever be dad's turn. We were also still in the tight feeding schedule of every 2-3 hours during the day, so often I was rushing around in between feeding showering, eating, etc. Pre-season practices are actually a great way to ease back into working. Without games my schedule is much lighter and is a nice transition back to the demands of my fall sports schedule.

We went for his "official" two month visit closer to ten weeks and it quickly became clear that he was going to be larger than Henry. His stats are below with a few pictures from the month between 1 and 2. 

First matching brother outfits. Happy 4th!

This is the evidence of how miserable we all were. He had cried and cried and cried. He FINALLY zonked out swaddled in his carseat. We left him in it and set it in the bassinet. 

SCHEFFLER JAMES MEYER

2 MONTHS

15lbs 3oz

24.5in