One Month Old Today!

Mom's Last Minute Visit

This is what we do to babies who insist on crying.
Turn them over our knees and jostle their little bellies until...

...they enter a trance of contentment.
Who knew the floor was so interesting?!

Of course, Little Bit should be the most interesting thing in the room,
and she usually is.

Posing for the camera seems to run in the family. :)

Smiles

So I'm learning what every parent knows. When your kid first smiles AT you (because of gas or a reflex), it's sweet and warms your heart. But when your child first smiles BECAUSE of you (or something you did), it's overwhelming and you get so excited, yell out loud, pump your fist in the air, and jump up and down, then try to get them to do it again. Ok, so maybe that's just how I reacted, but my point it that it's awesome and exciting.

Gas/Reflex Smile:

I was playing around trying to get her to burp and giving her kisses. Then I saw that each time I came close to her face, she would crack a smile. This video only gets a little portion of it, but it was so fun!

Real Smiles!

Sleepy Head Genes

It seems that Little Bit has inheirted her father's genes of being slow to wake up. To clarify, I was not waking her up, she was rutching around waking up all by herself till I came over. This is her normal wake up as pitiful as that may be.

Saturday had beautiful weather so we took Elizabeth out for a walk. She lasted all of 2 minutes before falling asleep. This is after we'd been trying to put her down for a nap for 2 hours beforehand. :)

Later that evening, she was wide awake and bumming in front of the TV with her dad.

Sink Baby

Elizabeth's first bath in a sink. I think she likes it. :)

Lessons on Baby

So in the first week of motherhood I've learned a few things:

Nothing in the world smells as sweet as your baby. It's intoxicating.

Pacifiers are a beautiful thing for a little girl who loves to suck on anything!

I definitely have to avoid dairy. Poor little girl. I had a bowl full of ice cream and milk last night and she's had a tummy ache all day. I've always needed to avoid dairy because it stuffs me up, but I could never really give it up. However, one look at this little body in such discomfort is motivation enough for me to give it up easily!!

Waking up at 3 am to feed a hungry body isn't that bad because you get to sit and stare at them the whole time. And the final, peaceful, content look on their sleepy face after a feeding is enough to send me into sweet dreams for the next little while.

So all in all, I'm completely in love with my little girl. :)