One month down, a lifetime to go!

Our little button turned ONE MONTH this week! We can't believe how big she is getting (she likes to eat!), how quickly this month has passed or how different our lives are now. (I think that I've mentioned before our surprise at how different things are, but we really can't believe just HOW different things are!!!).

A picture of our sweet girl with her elephant (gift from daddy) posing for her 4 week photo shoot (You'll notice I did not post weeks 2 or 3 --- that is because they were complete disasters with no smiling or even non-crying shots and one CRANKY baby!)


Not too much news to report. Miss Olivia is absolutely precious if we do say so ourselves. She's a pretty good eater and a good sleeper too. We have gotten several nights of 4 hours between feedings, which we cherish. She doesn't cry that much (except for the witching hour) and we can usually survive that with some swaddling, cuddling and a pacifier.

She is LOVING bath-time! It took some work for Matt and I to figure out exactly what we were doing with a squirmy, delicate, wet, little baby. We quickly got a routine down of him holding her, while I washed her. But we struggled with the ending....how do you take her from the warm bath water to the cold room to get her dressed without causing her to scream her face off? We now have a carefully crafted routine including getting her dressed in the bathroom while using the heat lamp in the bathroom, 2 towels, an "all men on deck" defense, and a two-phased approach to acclimating her back to a normal temperature (Phase 1 - turn the heat lamp off, but stay in the bathroom, Phase 2 - open the bathroom door, but stay in the bathroom and cover her with a blanket). (Note - even as I type it, I realize the excessive ridiculousness of it, but I'm going to play the "new mom" card on that one!)

It has seemed to work out though. Here she is in Phase 2 - I'd say its one successful bath-time :)



The one thing that REALLY makes her happy is this vibrating chair. Matt's classmates at Rice got her this a few weeks ago and it is the best thing that has ever happened to her (and to us!). She will sit in it for 45 minutes and "talk" to the animals, smile, and just be generally happy.


We can't wait to see what fun Month 2 will bring!