One Month Old!!!

It's hard to believe that my baby girl is one month old already! (Actually, I started writing this a few days ago...April 12th was the official one month, but you know how things go and the post just didn't happen.) She is amazing and all she does is eat, sleep, poop, and stare. :)

Briella, my sweet baby girl, below is what I want you to know (and what I want to remember) about your first month.

Life in General

• You are awake more often than you used to be, especially this past week when you started staying awake for up to 4-5 hours at a time. Before that you were not usually awake for more than 2 hours (if that even) at a time.
• You are able to follow objects with your eyes and one of your favorite things to stare at is the ceiling fan. You seem to always find that and just stare. Daddy says it helps you get oriented with where you are in the room. :)
• Your facial expressions and little noises are absolutely adorable. The way your lower lip pops out when you are about to cry is both so cute and so sad at the same time. Some of my favorite noises and expressions are when you are trying to poop. Oh so funny! I'll have to try to catch them on video or in pictures.
• You eat like a champ. For the most part you have never had a difficult time with nursing. There were a couple days in the beginning, but since then, not really any troubles. The only times that you have a bit of a hard time is if you have been crying and need to calm down before you can quite get it, but that usually doesn't take very long.
• I love that you were born with so much hair...love that crazy hair! I have no idea what to do with it, so it pretty much just sticks up everywhere. Daddy likes to put into a mohawk. Ha! It's so cute!

Firsts
Of course, there are going to be many firsts over the next few months, but this month your firsts included your:

• first bath (after your umbilical cord fell off which happened when you were 2 weeks and 1 day old...so thankful it came off so soon)
• first stroller ride...the three of us walked down to the mailbox. I think it was a little too bumpy on the gravel road. That didn't seem to bother you, however, I think we'll wait for a while before we go on the gravel road again.
• first doctor appointment
• first trip to Vernal
• first trip to church which was on Easter
• met your cousins for the first time
• first bbq

Pictures from this Month