Her first month!

Phoebe survived her first month! She actually went to the doctor for a weight check last week to make she is gaining at a good enough pace. At 1 month she was 8 lbs. 15.3 oz. and since the doctor didn't call us back we are assuming he was happy with it. She was 7 lbs. 11 oz. at her 2 week check up, so she had gained more than a pound in about 2 1/2 weeks. We are not going to worry about too much and see how we are doing at 2 months.

The above picture came from an idea we got from our friend, Whitney Winkler. She has been taken monthly photos of her baby, Ellie, with a stuffed bear each month, and it is really evident how much she has grown over the months! We decided to give it a try with our stuffed lion. Hopefully she will grow and have more happy expressions in the months to come.

Phoebe has gotten into a pretty regular routine of going to sleep between 10:30-11 p.m. and sleeping until 4:30 or 5 a.m. She has slept seven straight hours a couple of times which was great! We took the above pictures after one of those long nights and she was so alert and almost smiling! Since then she has actually given some big smiles a couple of times. Those are hard to capture.

Getting a kiss from Owen (daddy's shot).

Cuddling with daddy in one of her little dresses.

Her big eyed look.
Phoebe has had a lot of visitors in the last few weeks. She got to meet lots of friends we don't see very often, including Corrie Powell (pictured above). We were so happy to see Carrie and Mary Powell too. Corrie was one of Lewis' first friends and he still speaks fondly of all the Powells. He was especially chatty about Brian Powell, but we didn't get to see him this visit, unfortunately!

We also had a visit from my friends and former roommates, Tasha Caruthers and Heather Morozov (and her daughter, Annabella). We somehow made it through the visit with no pictures!! Kinda sad about that one, but it was really nice to see them even in the fog of sleep deprivation at 2 1/2 weeks post delivery.