A Month Old Already!

I can't believe that Addison has been here for five weeks already! It has been a whirlwind of a month. We are finally getting into a schedule. The last three nights she has slept for about four hours, up for two (to eat and play), and then slept for about three more. At this point, fours hours feels like eight though.

Eating is definitely her favorite thing to do. When she is full, she lets me know by giving me a huge smile. This is the only time I can get her to really smile. Hopefully in the next few weeks she will start laughing and cooing. I can't wait. Addison is almost ten pounds. We had a couple rough weeks with feeding, but seem to have gotten over the hurdle. Addison and I go to a breastfeeding group every Tuesday and Thursday mornings. The group has a scale that weighs Addison is grams before and after she eats so that I can see how many ounces she has eaten. This has been very helpful is subsiding my worries that she is not getting enough to eat.

She loves taking a bath. The first time she cried a little bit, but now she loves it. We can usually get a smile out of her during bath time too. She loves being wrapped in her towel and getting rubbed down with lotion.

Addison has learned that she has a great set of lungs. We have tried to use a pacifier to help with the crying, but she will rarely take it. She has never taken the ones that we got at Target. She has occasionally taken the one we received from the hospital. I guess it a blessing though so we will not have to break her from it later.

Hope you enjoy the pics and I will try to get some new ones soon...