The Firsts!

There have been a lot of firsts this month. She has really started smiling. One of the things I look forward to as I drag my tired, fatigued body through the day is to see her smile. It brightens my day and renews my strength. She makes so many faces now. She is mimicking almost every face you can make at her. It has been stated that she has inherited my ability to stick out the bottom lip an inch away from her face. Apparently, I had the most pitiful pout and my mother swears she was looking at me the firdt time she saw her pout.

Another first is the ability to blow spit bubbles. This is almost gross but it is still cute. It makes having a bib on her a neccesity now. Even if she doesn't drool on it, it keeps her from eating her clothes and soaking them.

She has begun to coo and goo for enjoyment now. Jon enjoys making her laugh.

She has also established the fact that she is a huge flirt. Anytime a man walks by she smiles and laughs at them whtner she knows them or not. She expecially loves her daddy and uncle, though. Their voices can wake her from a dead sleep. She gets so excited and wants to make faces and coo at them. It doesn't matter that she gets cranky when they are gone because she woke herself up from her nap. Then it becomes my job to put her back to sleep.

She is slowly learning to hold her bottle. She almost has but makes herself angry when it falls out of her mouth.

She loves to look around so much that she has given herself a bald stripe from ear to ear. My mom calls it a reverse "C". Usually when one goes bald, the hair on top of the head goes first. Not in this case.

She makes every day special. I absolutely love her to pieces.

I never understood that from the minute they are born, the personality is so evident. It only grows more evident as the days go by. It is going to prove that the mother's curse is more than true in my case. Not only will she be like me, I think she will be worse. With that thought, I try to focus only on here and now. These are the good and happy days and I hope to have many more ahead with her.

Life so far...

It has been great! I am one of the lucky parents who had a mellow baby on the first try. She only cries when she wants something or if its too cold. Easy fixes all around. She sleeps through the night so far. I have been trying to gradually get her used to sleeping alone. It has been working so far. Occasionally she fights sleep. The only problem I have had is that I don't produce enough milk for her. I nurse whenever I can but it is usually never enough. I want to make sure she gets enough so I supplement what I feed her with formula. In the meantime, I bought a breast pump so I can pump whenever I can. Hopefully, all of this will boost my milk supply. It doesn't help that I couldn't really nurse her in the first 2 weeks she was alive. I was in the hospital for most of it. I am told that I was supposed to nurse during the first 2 weeks to set my milk supply. That pretty much messed me up. It also doesn't help that she eats 6-8oz every 2-3 hours until bedtime. It's like she eats all she can so she won't have to eat at night. She has an appointment coming up. We will see how she is doing then.
On a side note, the house looks great. Cleanup is moving slower than I would like because of a certain energetic small person. When I finally get everything set up and done, I will post pictures. It is just taking longer than I wanted.