addy: 1 month

It's hard to believe our sweet Addy is already one month old!  She had an appointment with the pediatrician and pulled out all of her tricks, showing off during the appointment.  She held her head up like a boss and was so interactive with the doctor.  When I told the doctor that she had given us a few social smiles, our sweet pediatrician just smiled at me and nodded as if to say "sure sweetie...go ahead and think that she's smiling at you, but in all honesty those are gas grins."  I knew that was the sympathy smile and nod, and I also know that a baby's first smiles are gas grins...and I also knew that the grins we were getting were different.  And right on cue, Addy looked at the pediatrician straight in the eyes and SMILED at her!  I saw the pediatrician's face change and she said "oh you weren't kidding!  She just smiled at me!"  Yes ma'am, she did.  You're welcome.

Addy weighed in at 9 lbs, 11 oz.  She's still much smaller than her brother was at this age, but she is just like him socially. She's easy going and pretty predictable and rarely cries.  Her eyes are still mysteriously grey, some days hinting towards brown, other days blue, and recently hazel.  She's keeping us guessing!  And her hair is totally strawberry blonde!  We see the red mostly in her little expressive eyebrows.

My mom stayed with us for the first two and a half weeks after Addy was born.  She left on a Sunday and I had a pretty predictable meltdown in the driveway when she left, thinking how on earth am I going to do this without her?  She's superwoman, I tell you.  Cooking, cleaning, playing, and everything else all without batting an eye.  It didn't help that Brandon had to be at church all day in the day she left, so it was just me all of a sudden home with two kids.  She left during Lucas's nap time and when he got up from his nap we ventured out to one of his little friend's third birthday party.  I walked into the party with Addy strapped to me in the Moby wrap and Lucas tagging along beside me.  We survived the party and it was actually a really nice distraction, and when we were leaving Alicia (the birthday girl's mom) helped me out to the car.  After I buckled both kids in, she hugged me and thanked me for coming and called me super mom...and I busted out into tears in her driveway.  Typical, right?  I tell you these hormones...

The next day Brandon went to work and here I was again with both kiddos.  We survived!  That night we bathed both kids and collapsed into bed.  Please disregard the fact that even though we had two squeaky clean children in this picture, I had not showered that day.  Baby steps, people.

To catch you up on the first month of our baby girl's life, here are some more of my favorite pictures:

My MawMaw and PawPaw came to visit when Addy was 3 weeks old.  It is such a rare blessing for our kids to know their great grandparents.  

Addy girl, we love you so much!