Lillian - 1 Month

Lillian is 1 month old as of March 12th. It's crazy to me that so many days have passed since her arrival although at times in the first three weeks, nights in particular, seemed never ending. She's still so much a newborn but in so many other ways she is so different than when we brought her home - in many ways for the fun-ner (not better, just fun-ner).

Her first month of life...

• She smiled so much in her sleep and at times did something of a laugh. Now at one month she is very smiley during her wake times (especially mornings)... she's still not clearly smiling at anything Michael and I are doing, but we're getting close! And as I sing silly songs or talk about her dirty britches during diaper changes and she gives me a big gummy grin I know that genuine 'you-made-me-smile' smile is coming!

Lillian Sleeping Smile Week 1

Lillian Sleeping Smile Week 2

Lillian Sleeping Smile Week 3

• She has been all over the map with sleeping, but whereas we started with days and nights totally switched we now have some semblance of a routine - with night usually for sleeping. Hallelujah!

Lillian wakimg up in her 'newborn napper' - stretching. Easily one of my favorite pictures of her!

• Since her second or third day of life she has been raising her head up as she lay on our chests but now in tummy time she moves her head shakily from one side to the other sometimes holding it up for a second or two in the middle to look 'straight ahead'.



• Just in the last week her newborn clothes are pulling at the snaps but her 0-3 Month onesies are still great. At our one week appt they estimated she'd grown an inch (!) so I can't wait to see where she is at our two month appt in April.
  


• Everyone comments on how tiny she looks and how she looks smaller than her pictures but I think that's just because she's small relative to babies you're used to seeing out and about. Her double chin and rolls make her look like a chunker in pics.



• Though she still look like my baby pictures some when people pick one of us that she looks like, they always say Michael. Sometimes we get that she looks like both of us b/c we (Michael and I) favor each other.



• Lillian looooves to stretch - when we unswaddle her, when she wakes up, when she eats, when we pull her out of her car seat, and the list goes on!

Stretching week 1 at the hospital.

Stretching week 4.




• Right now she takes a bottle a day with breast milk as our way of sneaking in her icky multi-vitamin (we mix it in and it makes a glorious muddy color leading Michael to refer to this as the 'dookie-water'.... fortunately she's too small for this nickname to ruin it for her! ha) and she's working on keeping the paci in on her own and getting better.


• Hucklebear is getting adjusted and spends Lillian's floor time supervising or resting nearby. He seemed a little depressed at first, but I think he's getting adjusted... extra walks (with L in the stroller) and extra loving from daddy are helping!

Lillian you are a wonderous exhauting new addition to our lives! As daddy said holding you at the hospital and shaking his head " IfI already love her this much, can you imagine how much more we're going to love her?"