Our First Month

1 month:

• Loves fast patting & bouncing.
• Enjoys night walks. The sun is too bright and hurts her eyes.
• Started fighting sleep
• Brings hands to mouth
• Reaches for objects, but does not grab yet.
• Will watch me when I walk into her sight. 
• Recognizes voices & faces. Basically Grandma’s & mine. 
• Follows sound & movement from across the room. Will look for who is talking.
• Loves light, the bright bathroom or the lamp.
• Started sleeping in crib. Still prefers my bed though.
• Holds my hand while nursing.
• Started to lift head for short periods of time.

Grandma Leitha started giving you Eskimo Kisses.

You always have been a smaller baby. Still in a good range just on the lower end. You are short & petite, not chubby or skinny. You also have a big head.

April     26 - Started showing interest in the musical giraffe

May      8 -  Grandma Leitha finished making you newborn sized bibs, since the others were too big. 

May     12 - Met your Great Grandpa Baker & his wife, Nina. 

                   First time Uncle Richard held you.

May     13 - First video of you laughing. 

May     19 - Bought a rock n’ play, which you loved. You started sleeping in it since you were having 
                    trouble sleeping in your crib.

5 weeks old you began to really smile. 

7 weeks old: 

• Started trying to laugh, although you had a tendency to get choked. 
• Enjoys laying with head hanging back where its upside down.
• Began using your playmat.
• Found out you like TV, but you like it when the room is darker and you have a big TV. It makes the lights brighter.
• You also like Grandma Leitha’s app on her phone with the balls bouncing around the screen and noise when you shake it. It will distract you for some time.

Smokey is still bigger than you!