You are a month old! Oh my goodness, the time has flown by. You have blessed our lives beyond belief and we love having you in our family. You are such a calm and down to earth little guy, and you are a big boy! At your one month appointment you weighed 9 pthus ounds 10 ounces (50th percentile), measured 23 inches long (90th percentile), and your head is in the 75th percentile. You have gotten chunkier this month and have chunky thighs, cheeks, tummy, and a double chin.
Just this week you have started smiling at your dad and I. You had smiled for other people before, but not us. It brings us so much joy to know that you recognize us. I will get a picture of you smiling, but you do it so quickly it is so hard to capture right now. You also recognize our voices ans will try to find us with your eyes. You will lift your headup when being held, but it gets too heavy for you and it will plop back down. You also try to stand up or climb while being held or crawl while on your tummy, which makes sense because of how much you moved in mommys tummy. You also love to be held, talked to, and swaddled.
You were born with goldish hair, but recently your hair has started looking a lot redder. So, it looks like we will have two red head boys. Who would have ever thought that your blonde haired mom and your brown haired dad would have two red heads?
You usually sleep for two four hour stretches at night, but you have gone a few nights of five or six hours. You eat about eight times a day and you usually finish in about 30 minutes. You usually have to poop while you are eating, so that prolongs it. You make the funniest gas faces too.
You have recently started putting yourself on a little routine. You will eat, then stay awake a little bit, then will take a nap. You get fussy at night anywhere between 6:30-8:30. Your daddy likes to hold you during your fussy time to give me a break and he will talk to you or rock you. The only other times you get fussy is if when you get a bath or if you are really tired or hungry.
You like to suck pacifiers. You don't suck them all the time, but you like to when you are trying to go to sleep, then you will spit it out right when your eyes start to close. You also like to suck your hand. Your daddy tells you that you think your hand is an ice cream cone.
Just this week, I started pumping to get you used to taking a bottle. You got your first bottle on Saturday, June 23rd and you took it like you have always drank from a bottle. I know that your daddy loved feeding you too because he has never gotten to since I am breastfeeding you all the time.
You love to watch your brother Owen. He is loud and busy and you always try to watch him with your eyes. He loves to kiss and hug you and to tell you "it's ok" when you are crying. He is mommy's big helper and he loves you so much. He calls you "Dray".
You had to go to the hospital on Sunday June 10th because you had a high fever and diarrhea. We thought we would just be taking you to the ER and they would give you tylenol and send you home. But, because you were so little and young, they wanted to admit you. It was so hard for mommy and daddy to watch you go through all of the tests and to see you hooked up to monitors. You got better, and you got to go home on Tuesday morning.
We love you so much and love to see how your personality develops. You bring so much joy to our lives and we love having you here.
Love,
Mommy and Daddy
