Thanksgiving

We spent this Thanksgiving in California with my family. Audrey and I headed down early and were able to spend an entire week in Livermore. It was great for her to get to spend some time with grandma and grandpa and meet lots of friends and family.
While we were in California we did some Christmas shopping and had Audrey's picture taken with Santa. On Thanksgiving day we saw the movie Tangled and Audrey slept through the entire movie! After that we had Thanksgiving dinner at my grandma's and played a few game.
It was really great to get away and have a few relaxing days before we headed back to Utah and I went started work.

1 Month Old

Audrey is now one month old. She no longer looks like a newborn and grows bigger each day. She is just starting to grow out of her newborn diapers and into the size 1 diapers. She still wears a lot of her newborn clothes, but they are definitely getting smaller. She doesn't quite fit into the 0-3 month clothes yet, but hopefully soon so she has some more options. She is getting into more of a rhythm with her night time routine. She usually goes to bed around 10pm, wakes up between 3 and 4 am, and then again around 8am. Since she sleeps so well during the night, she is a wake much more often during the day. I love spending time with her during the day, but it is getting harder to get things done.

She smiles a lot now and loves to look at new things. I try to show her something new each day to keep her interest. We had a vase of flowers in the house and she would just sit and stare at them for hours. We've also been trying to read books, sing, and dance.

One of the funniest things about Audrey is that loves to grunt. She will just lay there perfectly happy and grunt and groan. It's pretty funny when we take her out to the store or a restaurant and all of these loud grunts are coming from her car seat.

Ellie is still adjusting to this new little thing in our house and doesn't like that she is no longer the center of attention. She is gentle with Audrey, but when I am sitting on the floor with Audrey, Ellie will try to get right in between us to get my attention. I know that she will come around once Audrey is old enough that they can play together.

New mommy experiences have included days when we go through four sets of clothes due to messy diapers, changing a diaper at 3am when she decides to poop and shoot it across the room, onto the floor and all over the changing table, many many loads of laundry, getting sweet kisses from my little girl (that makes all the messy diapers worth it), and waking up to this cute face.