One Month Ago

One month ago we met our sweet little Reese. In one way I feel like she has been with us forever and in another way I can't believe it has been a month already! I think the lack of sleep in the first two weeks contributes to it feeling like she has been here forever.

At one month old Reese:

• is 21 1/2 inches long




• weighs 9 pounds and 3 ounces...or so we think. I stood on the scale with her and without her so I am not sure how accurate it is.




• nurses every three hours. We will soon be giving her pumped milk from a bottle so that she is used to a bottle when I go back to work. Since our anniversary is next week Adam wanted me to go ahead and give her a bottle because he was planning a surprise trip for Saturday....until he realized that Alabama would be playing Tennessee and Auburn would be playing LSU that day. It is just fine with me if we sit home with our sweet baby for our anniversary because I am not ready to leave her yet.




• Slept best when being swaddled until a few days ago and she now seems to prefer her arms out of the blanket

• 
  Wakes up whenever the sound machine (the lamb in the top of the picture) is turned off. Adam and I like the sound machine too! Thanks to that little lamb it sounds like rain on a tin roof at our house every night!



• The first week or two she slept in her bouncy seat because she woke up everytime we layed her still in her craddle. Then she slept best swinging in her swing... due to the current cost of batteries we felt it would be best to not allow her to swing ALL night long in the swing. So she is now sleeping in the craddle with her arms slung out to the sides.

• Goes to sleep any time she is in the car riding.

• Only cries when she is hungry or has a wet diaper...and if we lay her down for a nap before she is asleep. But after her 3 a.m. feeding she gets herself back to sleep...so I don't understand. I think she knows that during the day I am trying to get things done around the house and doesn't like it!
  
  


• Loves to be cuddled. Which is currently my full time job:)



• until last week she got up every two hours during the night. Thank goodness she is now sleeping from about 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.!!
  


• sleeps in zipper sleepers because they make late night diaper changes SO much easier than having to button a onezie in the dark while half asleep!



• blows these sweet little bubbles when she naps



• tries to hold her head up when she is being held on someone's shoulder so we have to hold her down like this




• loves to lay in our lap like this when awake




• doesn't love or hate getting a bath although in this picture she looks a little sad
  



• will only listen to a story for a few seconds and then isn't all that impressed...maybe it is my reading skills:)