1 Month

This sweet little girl turned one month old on Saturday!  Can you believe it?!  

I cannot.

As far as growth goes, she is just growing!  We are switching her to three month size clothes TODAY!

Here are her stats from her first month:

Birth: 19 1/2 inches tall (53%) and 7 lbs 10 oz (55%).

First doctor's appointment at 4 days old: 19 1/2 inches tall (48%), 7 lbs 4 oz (37%), and 34.9 cm (50%) head circumference.

Second doctor's appointment at 11 days old: 19 1/2 inches tall (39%), 7 lbs 10 oz (44%), and 35.5 cm (57%) head circumference.

She is taking three naps a day and gets up twice at night.  

We love our little Sarah so much.  And she loves to snuggle.  She loves it so much that that is pretty much all she wants to do!  We try and just soak it all in and not think about all of the household things that go undone.  It is such a sweet and short time and we are just loving this little one.  

 We have learned that Sarah is not a fan of the bouncer.  We really don't use it that much but mostly I just liked the idea of her being up and off the ground (since she has an exceptionally active brother in a very small space constantly running around) but Sarah does not like it.  I think the longest she has ever stayed in it is ten minutes which just means that we have more snuggle time!

One thing that has been hard for all of us around here is Sarah has had some "gassy" issues.  Hopefully she won't kill me for publicly writing about this!  Pretty much the more time went by the sadder Sarah got.  Normally, it we just snuggled her for a couple of minutes she would calm down but by about two weeks sometimes that wasn't even enough.  She would just cry and cry and it was so sad to watch.  We got her some "gas" drops and those seem to be helping but she still has a hard time (I am thinking this may be part of her wanting to be held all of the time).  You can tell she just has these moments where she is in a lot of pain and things just don't seem to be moving through as easily as any of us would like.  Poor little girl.  We are hoping it passes soon!

One of the sweetest parts of this last month is seeing Jacob move into his role as a big brother.  We decided before we had Sarah that we just weren't going to push anything with their relationship.  We were just going to let Jacob be as involved as he wanted to be.  At first Jacob was mostly just observant.  But then he started really liking to be involved in "helping."  He loves to get her diapers, wipes, blanket and especially her binkie.  Now whenever she starts crying he will say, "uh-oh" and run and get her binkie for her.  He calls her "Saree" and it is about the cutest thing.  The first thing he says in the morning is, "Where's Saree?"  And it melts my heart every night when he comes and gives her a kiss on the forehead and says "love you, Saree."  Life doesn't get much better than that.  

We were reading stories in Jacob's bed before his nap and Sarah fell asleep.  I got up to put Jacob's books away and he was holding Sarah's binkie in her mouth for her.  Adorable.

We think that Sarah is just about the cutest little girl we've ever seen.  We love her so much and have to resist the urge to just play dress up!  Jacob loves picking out her outfit every day!

We love our sweet little girl.  We feel so incredibly blessed that she has joined our family.  She has brought such a sweet spirit into our home.  We love you, Sarah!  

Happy One Month!!!