Carter at 1 Month!

We had Carter's 1 month check-up last Monday. Dr. Pip says she is doing great, and growing perfectly. She weighs 9 lbs 5 oz (50th percentile) and is 21.25 inches long (50th percentile).  Just as I thought, she is a tad bit smaller than Blair was at this point in weight, but she is a whole inch longer than her sister was at one month old! She gave me a run for my money this first month because she would NOT sleep much at all during the day. She would catnap 20 minutes here and there, and I was not functioning well off of that because I had things to do with big sister!  However, she would sleep for days if I held her (Lord knows how bad I wanted to), but you can't hold a baby all day when you have a 3 year old. So, Moms on Call came to the rescue, and now we have a baby who takes 3 naps a day around 1.5 hour each! She loves her bed, swaddle blanket, and sound machine, and we are all happier people! She is doing great at night, and giving me some pretty long stretches. We love a good 7 pm-7 am nighttime routine around here, so I will feel like I have succeeded once we hit that mark! I am so thankful for this precious and healthy angel that has come into our lives. I want to say it here so I can come back and read it one day that I think this is going to be our fireball!  When she gets mad, she gets REALLY mad, and doesn't provide much warning. We will see how things play out, but I'm preparing myself ;).

Here are some pictures I took on her 1 month birthday.