Ivy: one month old

Ivy is now one month old.  I've said it before, but time flies by way too fast.

This little peanut does just what a one month old does.

She cries...hard. Really hard.  And there are no warning whimpers beforehand.  

She loves to be held and prefers to be held.

She smiles every so often, and it's the cutest little smile!

And we have heard a few coos here and there.

My favorite!

She hates to be swaddled...unless she is almost asleep.

One arm is always out of the blanket.

She sleeps fairly well.  I feed her at 7pm, she goes down for the night at 8pm and wakes up every three hours on the dot.  I'm up twice a night..which is exhausting, but I'm getting used to it.  She is up for the day at 6:30am or 7:00am.  (I mostly just write this to look back on...for help with future children)

She is a chubby little thing.  She eats like a champ.  Nursing is so much easier the second time around.  At her two week checkup, she weighed a whopping 9 pounds 14 ounces.  Millie weighed that when she was one month old. 

She doesn't have much hair.  Just a little peach fuzz that is a dirty blonde color.

Her eyes are big and blue and she long fingers and toes.

She loves her pacifier, rarely wears a headband or socks because her big sister pulls them off the second they goes on.  If a blanket is placed on Ivy, Millie pulls it right off.  So, its swaddled or nothing.

Her nicknames are:  

Ivers or Ibers

Ibee

Iverson

Ibis (eye-biss)

peanut (but I call Millie that too)

We love our little Ivers.  She has been a great little addition to our family.

It's like she's been apart of our family all along.

{I must really love this shirt, because Millie is wearing it in her one month pictures too. :)}