Our little girl is one month old today!! She's an incredibly good baby. She sleeps - A LOT. Like 20+ hours a day and when she's awake she hardly fusses. Seriously, she's been the easiest baby so far. It's crazy - being on maternity leave with her feels like I'm on vacation because I get to sleep in and just lounge around. Aaden still goes to daycare during the day so it's just me and Addison - I've been pretty lazy and honestly, it's been wonderful. She's so kick back though that it's easy to go places with her if I need to. I feel like I'm more relaxed this time around too - I think having less anxiety and also being a second time mom has made things so easy.
Addison gets cuter and cuter by the day. She has long fingers and the cutest little feet with perfect little toes. Her eyelashes are a mile long and dark. They are beautiful and impressive! At first I didn't think she'd have eyelashes (they were nonexistent) and then all of a sudden they just came out of no where. Her eyes are a pretty dark blue. I think they'll be similar to Aaden's. She still has her little butt-chin but it seems to not be quite as prominent as she's filling out. She has beautiful lips and she always puckers them - such a girl!
When we went to her 1 month appointment she was 8lbs8oz and 21" - up a whole pound and 2" longer. She nurses about every 3 hours. She gets one 3oz bottle of formula at night right around midnight. After that she sleeps until about 5 or 6am. I nurse her and then she goes back to sleep for another few hours. It's awesome. I usually swaddle her even though she kind of hates it. She doesn't like having her arms swaddled - she likes having them up by her face. But she sleeps better with them in because it keeps her from flailing them around which keeps her awake. She is quite the pooper - she poops a lot and has had some projectile episodes that were - well, messy. Impressive to say the least though! One of the stories will surely embarrass her when she's older ;) I think she has done some of those in revenge though because she hates diaper changes because she hates the cold. She can't stand cold wipes and screams like a banshee when we use them in the middle of the night. In fact, my mom bought her a wipe warmer which I thought was a crock when I had Aaden but now I see that they're pretty useful and make middle of the night changes a little easier.
Aaden is pretty good with her so far. He always gets excited to see her and says "Hi Baby" and kisses her. He likes to "hole-er" (hold her) but only for about 30 seconds. He's adjusted really well, I think. He was mad at me for a little while but I didn't take it to heart. I just felt bad that he was angry or struggling because of the change. But that only lasted for a couple days - he's past it now. Sometimes he wants people to put Addison down and come play with him but I think that's normal and we're happy to give him some one on one time. He's quite the silly little boy. He calls Addison "Dylan". There's a baby at daycare named Dylan so apparently he thinks that's Addie's name too. We ask him "what's the baby's name?" and he responds with "Dy-yan" - it's so funny! Now he knows we think it's funny so he does it just to be goofy.
At 3 weeks and 1 day she started giving little smiles to Emmy and Aaden and at 1 month and 2 days she gave me her first real smile. It was so cute and melted my heart!!
First time in her swing
Deep in thought
Having some malfunctions with her paci
I had to take this one - I have one like this of Aaden at the same age
(Dinner for Daddy's birthday)
She's pretty gangster
First tummy time
Big brother keeping her entertained
Her little puckered lips
Our Baby Girl at 1 month!
So precocious - already holding up a 1 ;)
I love this one ♥
And I thought her little expression was cute in this one
