Growing

I'm 1 week and 6 days old today, and today is my second day home with mommy. It gets a bit lonely around here without daddy and mawmaw, but mom and I do quite well on our own. I'm learning more songs and listening to more stories every day. Today mommy read me a book called Counting Kisses, and I really liked looking at a couple of the pages with bright colors on them. Mommy and daddy began giving me a binky. Mom doesn't like it much, but she only gives it to me at certain times. She thinks I like to suck a little too much, so between feedings when I'm awake and still wanting to suck, I get my binky. Just now I was lying on my blanket, and mom caught me holding the binky in my mouth all by myself! She likes to brag about all my good reflexes. Mom thinks I may have rolled over a couple of times too, but if I have, it was while nobody was looking (I'm sneaky like that!), so it is not yet official.

Monday and Tuesday Mawmaw stayed with us while daddy went back to work. It was awfully nice having her here. She does more cleaning than daddy! While she was here, mommy finally got to do things like shower, read, and do homework for her classes, which I don't usually allow. Tuesday we made our first trip to Mawmaw's house, where I mostly slept and mommy watched videos for one of her classes. My first non doctor related trip was Monday evening when we went to Aunt and Uncle's house. Nina and Grandpa have been staying there and taking care of my great great Aunt who hadn't been able to meet me yet. I slept through most of this visit too, but the whole time Nina held me I was all smiles.

Today I am feeling especially cuddly. Mom keeps trying to lie me down so she can clean and do homework, but I just wake up and cry and she comes right back to me! Tomorrow is my 2 week check up at the doctor. We'll post on my growth then.

For now here are some more pictures taken by mommy and mawmaw:

I love hanging out with my mommy! You can really see my hair starting to lighten in this photo. Mom thinks I will be a blonde before long!
This was during the day with Mawmaw here, but I've been sleeping in my crib at night too! I only get up a couple of times during the night to eat, and sometimes I don't wake up at all, and mommy has to wake me up to feed me!
Our first family photo at home!
Tummy time! I'm doing so well!
All bundled up and ready to go to Mawmaw's house

Also while mawmaw was here, Mommy and she put my handprints in my baby book. They did my footprints for us at the hospital, but we were on our own for the hands. I wasn't exactly cooperative, so they figured it would work best to wait until I slept.

This is my most recent picture to date. Mom just tried to capture me sleeping, and as usual the flash woke me up.