One month old

My, how time flies. I cannot believe my sweet baby boy is already a month old!!!! It's amazing how much he has changed already. He has begun to smile (when he feels like it - not when we do something to try and get a smile out of him), he holds his head up quite well, he is becoming more alert and interested in his surroundings (including the TV when it's on), he is certainly beginning to "fill out" (double chin, chunky thighs, chubby cheeks), he loves to read with me, he will sometimes go 4 hours in between feedings at night time (which we LOVE!!!!), and is the BEST cuddler in the whole wide world! (just ask Aunt Rachel).



We weighed him on our scale the other day and he weighed 10 pounds! Holy cow! We were so concerned about his weight the first week so we fed him as much as he would take, and now it's hard to stop him!



The past week has been a little rough. I had been so proud of the great sleeper that Ethan was, until this week. I guess he decided that sleeping at night is not a priority in his life right now, and gave it up. For about 5 or 6 nights in a row, he was up about every 30 minutes at night. He'd go to sleep, then wake up screaming 20-30 minutes later (and, of course, we knew he was fed, burped, changed, and should be content). So we'd get up, put his pacifier back in, then he'd fall back asleep. For 30 minutes. Then I'd get up and rock him and he'd fall back asleep - for 30 minutes. Anyways, you get the picture. Thankfully, we got a little break yesterday. Our friends Alan and Melissa came over around lunch time so Lonnie and I could go on a lunch date/sanity check. After that, we dropped off Ethan at Lonnie's parents house and we went home to take a nap. Wow, was that needed! Then all of a sudden last night, he decided to sleep again. He slept for 4 hours, then woke up to eat (although he stayed up for another hour), then went back to sleep for another 3 hours. It was wonderful!!!!

Rachel is going to give us another break tonight. She's going to do the night shift for us and let us sleep ALL NIGHT LONG!!! Yea for sisters!!!! I just hope Ethan decides to sleep for her - I'd feel really guilty if Rachel's up all night long. (But she does owe me - I did that for her when Caden was just a few days old - yikes!)

But during the day, Ethan is great! We're getting into a pretty good routine of eating, waketime/playtime, and sleeping. And, as you know, he does great when we go out anywhere - he just sleeps the whole time.

We went to The Picture People on Friday night to get some one month portraits done of Ethan. You can see them at the following link:



http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/pn/tpp/claim?em=margaretiw@yahoo.com&acc=005bdca493

The password is 'ethanlamp'


At the bottom of this post are pictures of the frames that we bought - too cute!!!!





Here is Ethan at 1 day old:

Ethan at one month old: (oops - I didn't realize he was wearing the same outfit! How embarassing!)

Here are the frames we bought:

I LOVE this one!

A close up...

A close-close-up... Ethan has our wedding rings on his toes. :)