8 weeks old, and growing like a weed!

Aubrey is becoming more and more precious, alert and BIG every day. We are having so much fun watching her grow and learn. She's starting to smile more often, especially after waking up from a good amount of sleep. And, she's sleeping very well most nights - she's sleeping 6-8 hours throughout the night.

We have our next doctor's appointment on Monday. This one won't be as much fun as the others, since she'll get her vaccinations. We're excited to find out her exact weight and length. We took her to the doctor last week since she had a cough (all is fine though), and with her clothes and diaper on, she weighed in at 10 pounds, 12 ounces. They'll do a more accurate measurement on Monday (no clothes or diaper), so that we can really see how much she's grown!

She loves baths, and I think tries to get more of them by playing tricks on me.

A couple days ago while changing her diaper, she peed on the changing table. That's nothing new. I let her finish her business - so I thought - and then picked her up so that I could take her to the bathroom to wash her off.

She wasn't done, so finished the job by peeing all over me. That's also nothing new - she did that a couple weeks ago.

I got to the bathroom, and was holding her as I got the water to a good tempature so that I could wash her off. That's when she shot poop all over the sink and bathroom mirror. Although it was of course gross, I couldln't help but laugh. I somehow managed to clean up the sink with one hand while holding her in the other, and then set her in the sink to wash her off. She gave big smiles to indicate that she was happy. She's so funny.

Now for a few of my favorite pictures from the past few weeks!

The first one is a side by side comparison in the same clothes, in her swing. The picture on the left was taken the day she got home from the hospital. The one on the right was taken the day before she turned 6 weeks old. It's amazing how much she grew in just 5 1/2 weeks! The other pictures below were taken in the past 2 weeks.

One month old!

As of tomorrow morning at 5:48am, Aubrey will be one full month old! I can't believe how fast this month has flown. Tomorrow I'm going to wake up to find that she's already starting school. But let's not talk about that. Just the thought of sending her to daycare brings tears to my eyes.

She's growing like a weed, and we're already finding that she's a very active baby. She loves to be held, especially when we're walking around (the car seat, stroller and the baby bjorn have already proved to be huge blessings!). We're also noticing that although she's happy to be held while you're sitting down (as long as she's not hungry), she gets bored really easily. She'll get a bit fussy if you don't change the position in which you're holding her every few minutes, and loves when you bounce her up and down on your knees, or make funny faces at her. Although this makes her a bit high maintenance at the moment, it's fun and leads me to predict that she'll be an active child and adult - hopefully in an athletic way!

She's sleeping well at night for the most part. Although a full night's sleep is likely a couple months away, I really can't complain. She tends to only wake up for 1-2 night feedings (as in between the hours of midnight and 6am), and falls asleep as I feed her. Jason helps with one of those feedings every once in a while, which helps quite a bit.

She's starting to wake up from a nap (which is so cute to watch - she does a series of yawns and stretches, which are complemented with funny grunting sounds), so I have to run. First, here are a few of my favorite pictures from the past couple weeks.