Happy ONE MONTH birthday our little princess!
This month has FLOWN by! We have been so busy with getting to know you, remodeling our house, traveling, that we haven't had time to slow down! We cannot believe that one month ago today, we were anxiously awaiting your arrival! You have lightened our lives up so much and we don't really know what we used to do before you were here! We wake up each morning looking at you and fall asleep at night looking at you! You are beautiful and perfect in every way! We just can't get enough of you! Daddy and I had a pretty boring life prior to your arrival! And I must say you are the ONLY thing that I would EVER get up in the middle of the night for! Just ask Daddy....I don't like my sleep disrupted, but you are more than worth it!
We spent your one month birthday traveling back to the beach from Walhalla. You were a trooper in the car, even with the hour and a half detour through the country because of something that happened on the interstate. We were a little illegal today because you got hungry on that detour, we had nowhere to pull over, so I put a jacket up over the window and nursed you riding down the road. Definitely don't prefer to do that but you were not going to wait another second!
When we got home tonight, we gave you a bath and we all went to bed pretty early! We were all exhausted!
We cannot wait to take you to your one month check up this week and to see how much you have grown! And for the doctor to once again tell us you are PERFECT! We won't ever get tired of hearing that!
A few things about you fromt his month:
- Your umbilical cord fell off
- You LOVE your bath time!
- You LOVE your swing and bouncy seat!
- You LOVE being held to take a nap!
- You HATE HATE tummy time!
- You are starting to look around more and become more alert when you are awake.
- You stay awake about 2 hours at a time now.
- You nurse every 3 hours during the day.
- You nurse about every 4 hours at night!
- You smile sometimes at us, however, I don't think you really know that you are doing it! It's usually at random times, or in your sleep! Some people will say that you are definitely smiling at them, but it's more of a reflex thing at this point!
- Usually right before you wake up from a nap, you get in a little chuckle fit in your sleep and it's sooo precious to watch!!!
- You adore your Daddy and he adores you! You adore me too:)
- Your fur sisters are becoming more used to you! Elsa could care less and Lulu is getting more used to you...thank goodness! She's still not so sure about you, but she is better.
We are settling in to a nice day time routine. We get up around 6 for you to nurse and then you get to get in bed with me and Daddy and we snuggle and look at you until he gets up to go to work. We LOVE snuggle time! Once Daddy leaves for work, I go back to sleep with you until you get up around 9:00 to eat again. After this, you're usually awake for about 2 hours. We play in the swing, in the floor, in the bouncy. You just go with the flow! When you take your morning nap, I usually try to get our laundry done and piddle around the house. I always take your afternoon nap with you. That's our time together until Daddy comes home! I have started giving you a bath before your 9pm feeding so you can get in to a routine. You eat around 9 and then I put you in your bassinet where you sleep until midnight and then you eat again! During this time, Daddy and I either sleep or I stay up and just enjoy the down time! You're a full time job baby girl!
We love you to the moon and back little princess! You are our reason to get up every morning!!
We cannot wait to have our new house finished soon and to start our little family of 3 together in our new place!!
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| Before we left Walhalla |
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| When we got home from Walhalla! Needless to say, you were not wanting any 1 month pictures taken after being in the car for 7 hours! |
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