Yesterday Payton turned four weeks old. We can hardly believe how fast she is growing! She now weighs 9 pounds, 10 ounces and has long legs. When she hears our voices she is beginning to look our direction. She also occasionally looks up at the mobile above her swing. She likes to suck her hands and sometimes likes to have a pacifier. She loves lying in mommy and daddy’s bed and she loves when daddy gives her a bath each night. She likes to spend time sitting in her swing, her bouncer, laying flat on her back, and being held in your arms. But try lying Payton on her stomach for some “tummy time”, to encourage her to start strengthening her neck muscles, and she will cry until you turn her back over. She is definitely not a fan! Though “tummy time” on daddy’s chest is more than okay with her.
As long as she is swaddled at night, she “sleeps like a baby”, waking us up only to eat and then she goes right back to sleep. This past week Payton has started going longer periods of time at night without waking up to eat. She has had a couple of nights where she has made it 4-5 hours before waking up to eat and the past two nights she has gone almost 6 hours. She’s not as good about sleeping during the day though and tends to fight sleep until she gets herself overly tired.
We call her an “angel baby” because she is so good. We feel like she definitely takes after Charles since my mom has said I wasn’t nearly this good when I was a baby and Charles’ mom confirms that he was a very easy baby. Looking at old baby pictures though, Payton looks very much like I did when I was a baby.
We knew babies went through a lot of diapers but we really had no idea just how many! It seems like she NEVER has a clean diaper. Thursday was Charles’ birthday and Payton decided to play a funny joke on both of us. I was in the process of changing her and Charles was standing a few feet away, looking at the new size 1 diapers that Payton just started wearing (she has outgrown the newborn sized diapers) when Payton decided to go poo. Well the poo shot out like a water gun getting all over my hands, Charles' shirt and pants, the carpet, the wood floor, the clothes hamper, the changing table, the stack of unused diapers, and probably other places that we have yet to discover! We both screamed and then found ourselves laughing about it for the rest of the evening.
Happy 1 month birthday to Payton and happy 30th birthday to her daddy!
Pictures from Payton’s first month:
8 days old and finally home from the hospital:
2 weeks old, happy baby:
2 weeks old with mommy, ready for Halloween:
2 weeks, 2 days old- Halloween Day:
Payton the pumpkin:
2 1/2 weeks old-- In her nightgown on the first cold day of the year. She's getting long!
2 1/2 weeks old- Nap time:
3 weeks old- We went for a walk to Seawall to see all the biker action taking place on the Lone Star Rally weekend. Surprisingly the loud bikes didn't bother her.
3 weeks, 2 days old- Mommy and Daddy's bed is so comfortable!
Daddy's 30th birthday (3 weeks, 6 days old)- A little unhappy about having to wear the birthday hat!
4 weeks old- As cute as ever:
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