1 month [already]!

My baby is a month old already! Where has the time gone? 

She's changed so much since we first started this journey. 

Hard to believe our sweet bundle of joy started out the size of an apple seed and is now over 7lbs and 21 inches long!

Do you see a resemblance between mommy's double chin and Annalises? lol 

I think she's getting a little 'tude already. 

Yay for blurry smiles. Can't get enough of these right now. 

She is starting to respond to us talking to her. It seems the more goofy our faces the more smiles we get out of her. Needless to say, there's a lot of 'baby talk' and gibberish going on at this house. 

This little face has changed so much in 4 weeks. And we are enjoying more hours spent interacting with her than watching her peacefully sleep. Luckily, those waking hours are mainly during the day and not in the wee hours of the night. I feel fortunate that she doesn't have her days and nights mixed up currently. That makes for a rested momma (most of the time). ;)

She has also taken a liking to her glowworm at bedtime. Generally after her last feeding (between 8p-11p) we give her final snuggles then lay her down and turn the worm on. It cycles through about 4-5 different songs for roughly 10 minutes and then shuts off. This seems to work well as a bedtime routine and she's beginning to learn to "self soothe" without us rocking her to sleep every time. 

(Side note: This was a concern of mine due to the sheer size of our families. With a little one constantly being held I thought for sure she'd have to be held to go to sleep as well. And with mommy and daddy working long hours this would not have worked.)

Lastly, our peanut has begun holding her head up on her own and has even rolled over a few times! Whether by accident or intention, mommy was just happy to see her exercising her muscles. She's such a strong little booger already! 

Pretty soon she'll be scooting her way across the play mat instead of just rolling around on it. 

Until next time...