One Month Birthday!

Isaac turned one month Saturday, September 20th! (We would have posted then if we had an internet connection!) In many ways, it is hard to believe it has been a month, in other ways it seems like it has been an eternity. Overall, we love having him around and are adjusting well, and he is adjusting well to us.

As I realized Saturday evening that we needed some one month pictures, I grabbed the camera as I prepared him for his bath. (Keep in mind that Ben wasn’t home because he had a huge project for work the next day). At any rate, we had a rather uneventful bath and I got some great photos of him looking at me and wondering if I was going to dress him sometime soon or just kiss on his baby skin all night. Then I got him dressed, picked him up, and he let one of his projectile vomits go.

And when I say projectile, I mean projectile! If you look close you can see the drops of regurgitated formula that made their way to the carpet. The next photo is of our lovely son covered in that same regurgitated formula (hard to see here) – but the “did I do that” look says it all! Yes, I did another sponge bath to then clean him up! Then finally got him off to sleep! My swaddle isn’t nearly as effective or precise as Ben’s but it works. Ah, what a beautiful thing, a sleeping baby!

Anyway, here are few noteworthy items that we have learned about our son over the last month.

1.    He is quite the little grunter. He starts grunting in his sleep about 30-45 minutes before he actually awakes from sleep. You can tell he really is starting to be awake when he takes his right arm, makes a fist, and stretches it out (pictured below). It is pretty darn cute.

2.    He is eating about 4.5 oz at every feeding now and steadily gaining weight. Although we don’t have a firm number as of yet as what his weight is up to.

3.    In the last few days he has started having more alert time each day. He is happy spending time in his bed batting, smiling at, and “talking” to the colorful caterpillar. (This has made it possible for me to actually get a few things done around the house).

4.    Thumb-sucking. I think we have a future thumb-sucker on our hands. Every once in awhile he manages to catch his thumb as it passes by on his flailing hand – he practically sighs with the joy of it when he does. I probably should be concerned but I think it is pretty darn cute!
5.    He has started to smile! Oh, how awesome that is! And not just the “I have gas” kind of smiles. I actually got a great photo the other day.

Thanks for caring about our little one! We will try to keep better posts and more pictures when the world of internet returns.