one month

My baby turned one month old yesterday.  How in the world did that happen?!  And what a big month he had.  He spent a week with us at grandma and grandpa's house with his aunts, uncles, and cousins...  my sister and her youngest came to our house to visit, my mom came to visit, we went to Casper to stay overnight and introduce him to the game of basketball (one of J's players was playing in the state All Star game for the South team), we had a steady stream of visitors at home, and we went CAMPING in Yellowstone for a weekend!  (another blog post on that topic.)

Stats:
Length / Weight: Unsure of length, but he was 10 pounds, 3 oz when I took him to the clinic to be weighed yesterday.  Holy moly, since he was 10 days old, we totally missed the 8 and 9 pound ranges!

Eating: Fantastic eater.  We were having to stop him at 3 oz because of bad spit up, but in the past few days he has just not been satisfied with that, so we are giving him 4 oz.  He sucks that down within 20-30 minutes and it only takes that long because we have to constantly stop and burp him.  He gets sooo sad when we take the botte away from him to burp!

Sleeping: Little b is a pretty good sleeper!  He's usually awake for a couple hours in the morning and a couple hours in the evening, and sleeps for the better part of the day.  At night, he'll eat about 10:30 and then only wake up once during the night, waking for the day any time between 5-6:00.

Wearing: 0-3 month, as newborn is getting quite small.  Had to move him to size 1 diapers last weekend.

Miscellaneous: Still isn't totally consistent in smiling but when he does, it melts my heart!  We have a big canvas print of J, B, and I from when B was 3 years old above our couch.  Little b loves to stare at it and has smiled at it, too.  He also LOVES to be swaddled to sleep and when he can't settle down, we put the swaddle me blanket on and he is instantly calm.  His pacifier - he could take it or leave it.  That's kind of nice! He loves taking baths. He doesn't cry and actually gets some coos out during them! He also loves to be in his swing!