Happy one month Maggie

We've come a long way, baby!

Exactly one day before her one month birthday, Maggie looked right at me and smiled! She's been practicing for about a week and a half - of course the sweet smiles as she nods in and out of sleep but also I've caught her looking at me and smiling while I've been looking away. Yesterday afternoon, I was holding her on my lap and she was smiling at my hair line a couple of times, and then she looked right at me, smiled with half a grin and then smiled at me with her little lips closed. And today? Smiles all around! She smiled at me as I was holding her with her little tongue sticking out, she will smile when I am about to feed her, smiled in her car seat today, and when she is in falling asleep too.

This morning, playing on the bed, we sang Happy Birthday to Maggie again. Henry of course asked for cake for breakfast! Then he volunteered to make her one in her play kitchen :) Mom was more okay with that idea

This week we took the double stroller for a spin at the mall. This wasn't the fir

st time using it, as we went when Maggie was just two weeks old. But it was the first time there by myself, and everyone did wonderfully! Henry says that "Maggie, you're the engine and I'm the caboose!" He came up with this one all on his own, and we're glad, because he really likes sitting on the "train double stroller." I get to be the engineer, and Daddy is the conductor.
We've been doing pretty well getting out of the house - and in the past two weeks have navigated Target, the grocery store (Henry in the cart, me wearing Maggie in the baby wrap), the YMCA gym, the library and bookstore story time. I'm a lot more willing and less nervous to get out of the house this time around. I'm taking advantage of Maggie sleeping all the time!

Maggie has been working on some tummy time. She will tolerate it for a few minutes, but can only push her head up when she is at an angle on one of us, not when she is on the floor yet.

Most of the time, this is right where she wants to be when she sleeps. She wakes up when we put her in her swing, crib or bouncy seat, but is actually getting a little better with not needing to be held in her sleep. And night time sleep is really great, with her going a five hour stretch at the beginning and then three hours after that. Last week she was eating every hour and half during the day, this week she is getting on more of a 2 to 2 1/2 hour pattern. And I'm feeling much better now too.

She's so little in her car seat! This was her coming home outfit one month ago, and she still fits in it (barely!) today. And she smiles!

We've come a long way, baby!