One Month Old! Or the post with too many pictures!

Amelia was 4 weeks old on April 27th!

Amelia is 4 weeks old! And her blanket embroidered by a member of our congregation with her name, birthdate and birth sizes.

Amelia hanging out and looking out the window

For Grandma: archer's pose

A close up - still grumbling about the lack of light during William's nap time.

Pretty girl in white in the light
How sweet is she?
Very sweet, I t
But, she'll punch you if you aren't nice to her

Eyes shut, but a little smile for you all!

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On April 30th, Amelia was 1 month old. Yay Amelia! Although it make Mama a little sad!

Of course we had to have a little photo shoot for the mama

Smiling girl - she is so smiley. Even at 10pm at night!
A little giggle...
Crazy lady hair
A more serious picture
It's too dark, but it is a precious smile
Kicking away
Smiling again!
I just love this smile!

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On May 1st, Amelia had her well baby 1 month check up. We were nervous about this appointment largely because of the weigh in. We both felt like Amelia had been making some huge gains with her weight and eating - but would it be enough?

Yes it was! Amelia was:

Weight: 10lbs 3.25 oz (1 week before she was 9 lbs 2.8oz)*
Length: 23 inches (a gain of 2 inches in a month!)*
Head circumference: 39.5cm (a gain of 2 cm in a month)

So, the verdict is she is making huge gains in growth! Yay - I can't believe she gained over a pound in one week! Now I am not worrying about the timing of her feedings and best of all am not waking her to eat at night! Yay sleep! All her other milestones are on track and we will go back in another month.

*For those who are interested, Amelia is in the top 95% for height and in the 75% for weight (correct me if I am wrong Mr Heidt).

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On May 2, I took Amelia to a real photographer to get some one month pictures taken. Although we've taken a lot of pictures of Amelia, we don't have nearly the number of pictures of her as we do of William. Plus, she is so pretty - I just had to get her pictures taken. Unfortunatetly, it was king of a pain to try and rotate the pictures, so you'll just have to turn your heads. Because I am lazy tonight. Sorry.

3 Weeks Old!

Amelia turned 3 weeks old on April 20th! As always, I didn't have time or energy for color correction, but I'm posting them anyways. Maybe someday when I have free time to devote to playing seriously with pictures again I will work on it.

I have not yet learned: it is easier to do pictures during nap time. I wanted to put Amelia's 3 week card on her back and take her picture. Amelia was very cooperative with this. William however was very unhappy that he didn't have anything on HIS back and insisted on laying on his belly..on the blanket of course.
Which made it very difficult to get the picture I had in mind!
I finally sent him off to find something for me and I was able to snag this picture. Not exactly what I wanted, but closer than...
this! After tiring of laying on his belly, William decided it would be more fun to sit on the blanket (in the light, grr!) and read a book to his baby sister. Everyone at once: ahhhhhh, how cute!
Sent the big boy on another errand and snapped a few more...



Obviously, more books were needed if I was going to keep trying to take her picture!
Amelia is oblivious to how hard I had to work to take her picture
Sleeping beauty

Ahh...William's naptime! Prime opportunity for taking pictures. But, as you can see the light is also gone. And, still sleeping!

My girl sure likes to sleep!

Note the outfit change. I can tell you the outfit change was totally necessary. I won't tell you about the details of the diaper that made it totally necessary.

Our beautiful baby girl

And the bouncy seat picture. Because someday I might get my act together enough to actually put together the comparison post that I have a brewin' in my head.

Family of Four

When people come and visit, we need to have them take our family picture. Several of our family members aren't patient enough to wait for camera timers currently! Luckily, we were able to get one of William (and us) smiling thanks to Grandpa Heidt!

Buttering up the big boy (read: bribing) to sit on the couch and smile

A family picture
A rare picture of Daddy multitasking. Holding baby and petting cat- nice work!

Amelia!

We're going to the Zoo....

You can come too.... With Grandpa in town (April 18), we decided we could try a trip to the zoo. It is always good to have a lot of extra sets of hands around to help the first time you try something new! We somehow managed to arrive and enjoy the zoo in between rain showers - it made for a nice day because there wasn't much of a crowd!

Amelia's first trip (out of the uterus) to the zoo!
Mama, William and Amelia checking out the penguins (Amelia is in the sling). My hand is over William's mouth because he kept putting his mouth on the glass. Ewww!
John and William looking at the penguins inside the penguin exhibit. This method of transportation eliminates the licking of unknown objects. It also messes us John's hair.
Grandpa's turn for a new hairdo and looking at the seals.
Pointing out something to Grandpa (a peacock, I think?)

Grandpa Heidt Visits

Grandpa Heidt arrived to meet Amelia on April 17th (I'm almost caught up...)!

Grandpa and Amelia
Grandpa, Amelia and William the Helper

It isn't as easy as it looks to get a family picture taken!
You might think it would be hardest to keep the baby happy long enough to take a picture. Lucky for us both Grandpa and Amelia were on their best behavior!

Cute Sleeper

Isn't she the most adorable baby you've ever seen? She sleeps all curled up in this position a lot. How do I know? Well.....she has ended up in bed with me on more than one occasion. As it turns out, I really don't think that co-sleeping is a great idea for our family in theory. However, it turns out that in practice sometimes co-sleeping is what happens at our house. Theory or not.

Every time I think the jaudice is starting to clear up I see a picture like this one. Definately still has a yellow cast to her face!

Ack! John Goes Back to work....

In addition to Amelia being 2 weeks old, John also returned back to work today. Somehow it feels like he was home for a longer period of time when William was born. Or maybe those first two weeks when William didn't sleep were just an eternity long. Hard to say. But, I was very nervous about being up against our two angels by myself today.


In the end, the day was easier than I had expected. It wasn't exactly an easy picnic either - I changed 1321897238 diapers by the time John arrived home. I also had spent precisely 5.5 hours feeding one child or another and exactly 12 minutes feeding myself. But, things were manageable. Especially because Amelia slept from 12:30am - 7:45am again!

It also helped that we had a visit from some very special people today: Jeff, Liz and Laura. Today was a school holiday and so they spent part of their day off hanging out with us. They came to play and brought me lunch. They even held the baby while I ate my lunch! It was amazing and really made the day fly by!

Uncle Jeff with Amelia
Liz with Amelia

Funny William story: We were all sitting around after lunch and Liz was holding Amelia. William was having trouble remembering everyone's name. So, he said "Grandma holding baby". Of course, everyone laughed and Liz (who does not have grandchildren) laughed as well. Lucky for William he is cute. For some reason then, he looked at Jeff and said "Grandpa! Grandpa play with William!" Everyone laughed again, although it wasn't quite as funny because Jeff is kind of an antiGrandpa (because he is young and hip, not because he doesn't like Grandpas). Then Laura*, had to ask "What is my name?" He looked at her long and hard before declaring "GRANDMA!" Which is sad because Laura is about 6 months older than me. So, I have about 6 months before I am officially Grandma age according to my son.



*Laura isn't a fan of newborns, so she declines to hold any of my children until they are at least 3 months old. So, I didn't leave her out - she just opted out.