by any means necessary

The sure fire way to get Sophia to sleep during the day is to put her in the baby carrier and start doing housework. Laundry, vacuuming, baking....all of it seems to put Sophia to sleep. So you'll find a lot of this around our house these days...

Making dinner

Sleeping soundly!

Don't want to get ketchup on the baby girl...

No more excuses for not doing housework... darn :)

first smiles!

Sophia is smiling at us! We love all the special grins we are starting to receive from Sophia! There is nothing like smiling at your baby girl and having her give you a big gummy grin!

They are hard to catch on camera but I managed to capture her smiling at her daddy this morning!


We love you baby girl! Your smiles light up our days!

5 weeks!

Sophia is 5 weeks old!

We've seen big changes in Sophia during her fifth week of life. She is becoming more and more social, telling us all about her dreams when she gets her diaper changed. She also smiled socially for the first time! She gave her mom a few big gummy grins on February 17 after her diaper change!

At 5 weeks Sophia:

• wears size newborn (getting a little chunky for these!) and 0-3 month clothes
• smiled socially for the first time!
• sleeps swaddled in her crib at night
• naps in the baby carrier during the day
• is most awake and playful in the morning
• eats every 2-3 hours during the day and 3-4 hours at night
• has started to hate car rides!

one month!

One month ago Sophia Alice arrived and changed our lives for the better! What a month it has been! Sophia has grown so much in just her first month of life going from a sleepy newborn who ate 12 times a day to having more wakeful periods and greating us with coos and baby babbles.




Her first month of life was filled with visits from friends and family, volunteering for Reading Camp (starting her young!), trips to the doctors for check ups, walks around the neighborhood (yes, in February, in Cleveland! 60 degree weather!) and lots of snuggles with mommy and daddy.





At one month Sophia:

• wears size newborn and 0-3 month clothes


• weighs 9lbs 8oz and is 20 3/4" long


• eats every 2-3 hours during the day and every 3-4 hours at night


• loves to sleep in the beco baby carrier during the day


• sleeps swaddled in her crib at night


• must be reading the baby books because she is trying out all the soothing techniques! one day she loves car rides, the next its the vacuum, she's going right through the whole list :)


• can lift her head and turn it


• coos and babbles
  
  

Gesundheit!

a table set for three!

A Romantic Valentine's Day Dinner.

The table was set with everyone's beverage of choice.

One little 3 week old slept right through.

Letting her mommy and daddy enjoy their first Valentine's Day as parents. A yummy dinner of oatmeal pancakes and mimosas :) With a lot of maple syrup of course.

Thanks Sophia!

4 weeks!

It is hard to believe Sophia has been with us for 4 weeks already! She is growing and changing every day!




During her fourth week Sophia had her first trip to the outlets! It was a nice sunny day on Saturday so we decided to go there and exchange some clothes Sophia was growing out of before she got to wear them. Sophia did really well. She slept most of the time and sucked on her pacifier when she was awake.

On Sunday, Sophia went to church for the first time for a Reading Camp meeting. She did wonderfully again slept, ate, and slept again! Everyone was very excited to meet her! She also had a visit from Nana and Pappy who brought her a Valentine's day gift.

Sophia has started to have some fussier periods in her fourth week especially in the evenings. She seems to have read about the "witching hour" and decided to join the bandwagon. Some, not every night, she fusses in the evening hours and no one thing seems to work to settle her to sleep. Some nights swaddling works, other nights lots of rocking, last night she and daddy danced and sang 80's love ballads..... Every night is a new adventure.

At 4 weeks Sophia:

• wears size newborn and some 0-3 months clothes


• eats 8x a day-her timing is ever changing roughly every 2-3 hours, some nights will go 4-5hours but not consistently


• hates having her diaper and clothes changed most of the time


• loves sleeping in the beco baby carrier (most of the time...Sophia isn't consistent these days in her likes and dislikes!)


• has started to hate car rides as of Monday! We're not sure why!


• is starting to coo and make other noises when awake


• Can lift her head and hold it better each day