1 Month Old

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1 month old

It's amazing to think that you have been here for a month now. In some ways, it feels so much longer. In some ways, I'm still looking around for your real mother to come and take you home.

We're learning more and more about you...

- You love having your hands up by your face and head. You strike the craziest poses sometimes, and the victory fist up in the air is the way you stretch to wake up pretty much every time.

- You like to take your mealtimes real leisurely. About 50 minutes, all told. On occasion, you have a near-death experience while eating, trying to breathe while you swallow and coming up spluttering for air. You had about 2 weeks of crazy spitting up, but now you're mostly keeping your tummy contents contained. With the great exception of last night... when you had a near-death experience (but kept gulping slightly too long) and emptied your entire belly onto yourself and me.

- You take after your father in making funny noises, especially while eating and sleeping.

- You mostly eat every 3 hours but are starting to give a few wonderful 4 or even 4 1/2 hour stretches at night. Makes me so proud.

- So far your primary outings have consisted of a few meals out to eat, some trips to the office, 4 Sundays at church, and some visits to friends' homes. You don't care for your car seat at all and normally start hollering while we strap you in (who can blame you?), but you settle pretty quickly. We had a rollicking time at a little Super Bowl party and have already made many friends at church.

- You are generally real smiley and perky after eating. It just tickles me to see you kick and wave and charm. Sometimes however, you are just a Grumpy Pants and not so thrilled about life.

Your daddy likes to call you Bert the Squirt and I generally call you Peanut, Sugar, or Dumpling.

And we love you more and more every day. Happy 1-Month, baby.