One Month

It's hard to believe my little girl is already a month old. It seems in so many ways that she's always been a part of our lives and it's hard to imagine that there was a time -- just a few short weeks ago -- that we didn't even know that we'd have a little girl. Life with 3 has been interesting, but that's something for another post! Hopefully this week I'll get to posting about the day she was born.

At one month, Charlotte weights about 8 1/2 lbs -- that a whole pound and a half more than when she was born! I had to weigh her on our scale at home since we don't have a checkup this month, but I think that's about right. She's getting some little rolls and has quite the double chin. :) She's also getting much longer. Her newborn clothes are starting to get a bit tight and I don't think she'll be in them much longer. Sniff, sniff.

Her biggest change this month is that she's now smiling at us! She started giving REAL smiles last Sunday -- Feb. 14th. What a wonderful Valentine's gift for all of us! She's also trying so, so hard to "talk" back to us. She moves her sweet little mouth to try and copy us, but for now all we're getting are grunts. It won't be long though until we hear those first little coos.

She's still on a solid 3 hour schedule -- even at night. But, she usually just eats and goes right back to sleep at night which is good for now. We've fallen into a fairly predictable daily schedule...she usually naps good in the morning and then is up for about 4 hours (10-2). She'll nap from 2-4 and then is up/down the rest of the night. This works pretty well with our schedule and I'm realizing that between carpools for both kids and Matt's crazy schedule, Charlotte won't have the perfect little schedule the other 2 had. But, we've found one that works for us for now which is more than I'd hoped for!

I can't wait to see what this next month holds for us!