One Month Old

Samantha is one month old! She had her checkup on Wednesday and is doing just great. She weighed in at 9 lbs 8 oz, so she has gained two lbs since birth. She is 50th percentile for weight and 70th for height and head circumference.

She is still a wonderful baby. She has definitely woken up a bit. She has a 1-2 hr fussy period at night where she just wants to be held, and she is having a harder time napping. But she is so much easier than the twins were, I am just so grateful. She is still sleeping great at night...usually a 5-7 hour stretch followed by a 2-4 hr one, which makes for a lot of sleep for me! Yeah! I was telling Cory that her first month seems to have gone by a lot faster than the boy's first month. I think that is because I spent a significantly larger portion of it awake with them than I am with her, so it actually has gone faster!


She has started cooing and smiling a lot! It is so fun. I make a fool of myself doing anything I can to make her smile. She is very alert for a lot of day, and just studies everything. She already seems so feminine to me. She is so slender and delicate and her beautiful eyes seem so girly. I just love her. I love having a girl!

Her brothers adore her too. They love to hold her and kiss her and share just about everything with her. I regularly find cars, or blocks, or balls in her pack & play or swing. I caught Noah trying to feed her a teddy graham today. Why is it they get the concept of sharing when it comes to her, but not each other?