One Month

Cue the way I start every monthly post:

It's hard to believe a month has already gone by! She's getting so big. When we went in for her two week doctor's appointment the doc was so pleased with how much she was growing and how good she looked that he told us to skip the one month appointment and come back at two months. Makes sense because sick people are starting to outnumber the healthy ones in the waiting room. But it means that we don't know her measurements. I'm guessing she's around 9 pounds by now. She's got super long legs and has outgrown most of the newborn sleepers because of that. She also has long skinny feet. I did too, and the only shoes that fit as I remember were saddle shoes. I promised Tessa I wouldn't make her wear them.

She's not a big cuddler and prefers to be stretched out across your legs. She smiles at us when we smile at her. Real big open mouth ones that melt your heart. She will also track your hand a little bit, and looks in the direction of loud noises (like Luca). The other day I was making dinner and Tessa was in her little rocker. She started fussing so Luca decided to gently rock her. He was talking the whole time, and she stopped fussing looked at Luca and smiled. So sweet!

She followed in Luca's footsteps, literally. Pa said he saw her take her first steps last week! Luca did the same thing. Walked for Pa very early, and then wouldn't do it for me for more than a year. He also said his first words to Pa: "Welcome home, Pa" so we'll see if Tessa does that too.

I never said, my Grandma won the baby pool! She had the 15th. Hopefully your got your prize in the mail already, enjoy some ice cream on us!

She likes to sleep with her hand under her face, she'll wiggle until she's comfy. She also seems to sleep best and be calmest when there's a lot of things going on. The other day she was fussing, and then Luca started crying about something. After Luca started crying she stopped and when he stopped she started up again. You can tell there was a lot of noise while she was growing! While she was growing she had the hiccups 3 or 4 times a day everyday. She still gets them all the time. And they just shake her whole body. It's not so bad except when she has them in the middle of the night because they keep her awake.

She is a champion sleeper other than that though. Has been since she was born. It's such a change from how Luca was, and I am totally loving it! Also because I'm getting longer stretches of sleep at night I'm not waking Josh up and asking him to help, so he's loving it too =) She really is the sweetest little thing!