Amanda is 1 month old today

I can't believe it - our little baby is ONE month old today. It flew by so fast. I am kind of sad to think this is how fast our baby girl will grow out of being baby.


This first month has been little bit blur, getting used to changes newborn baby brings along. Challenging month but filled with lots of happy moments. Waking up at night and in early morning hours probably has been the most difficult part and not being able to sleep when baby sleeps since there is toddler that needs her share of attention and energy when you have very little of it ;) Also getting out of the house in the mornings with two kids requires totally new set of skills and level of patience. But seeing how much Izzy loves her baby sister, constantly wants to kiss her, hug her and hold her, makes it all worth it. I thought maybe excitement of having little baby in the house will wear off in few weeks and she will be over being big sister but as a very pleasant surprise to me, she is still as excited as on day one. Izzy is so gentle with the baby, it comes so natural to her to be big sister, filled with love and adore for baby. She keeps telling me it is "my Baby", we keep having this funny conversation where I tell her it is "my Baby" and she says back - "no, it's my Baby". Friend of mine Rebekah had told me this while I was pregnant that her son was like that when his baby sister was born, it was his baby, not hers. I did not fully understand what she meant until it happened to us. Izzy totally has claimed ownership of the baby ;)




Few facts from Amanda's first month:
She has used up about 270 diapers in her first month, yes I can't believe the number too but we realized yesterday that big Costco box with size 1 diapers is empty. What a great pooper!!!
Her umbilical cord fell off on day 8 (Friday, August 7th).
Amanda's first outing was at 5 days old to Hollin Farms for peach and raspberry picking together with Grandma Coralie.
Our first family of 4 outing was on July 19th, 20 days old, to the 60th Annual Prince William County Fair. She did really good, while big sister enjoyed her first rides alone, little sister slept in Moby carrier.
At the 2 week check up she was 8lbs 11oz, exact same weight as her big sister at birth. They both were the same lenght 20.5 inc.
Amanda is starting to hold her head up very nicely and starting day 25 she can see more. She is so much more alert and looking around, and starting to follow objects with her eyes.
She loves bath time. I love how she streches out, looks like little froggy to me, pushing with her legs off baby bathtub.


It has been a great first month and we all are looking forward to Amanda's first month party this afternoon. ;)

P.S. Pictures taken on August 8th, 2009 by Rebekah Wehner. Amanda 9 days old at the time.