1 Month

       Wow, Jacob will be 1 month old tomorrow. Craziness! Umm...yeah. Remembering things from the week to write about, a little difficult when I've got a 2-year-old as well as the newborn. Sleep eludes us a bit, and currently I just spend my days trying to survive. Oh! I did start "working out" this week. Okay, I do a plank exercise for about 10 seconds, and 10 leg lifts each morning, but I'm counting it because of having a baby recently. It makes me feel better to at least do something. This coming week, I'm hoping to start going on walks at least or 4 days of the week, and then possibly the next week start some actual workouts. We'll see how I feel next weekend before I decide that one for sure though. So yeah. Can't think of anything going on. We sent in our taxes (yay for getting a return) and we will be putting about $1000 toward our van, so we'll have cut down some debt, as well as giving ourselves some play money. Umm... I've been trying to work on some Christmas gifts. Yes, I know, its only March. With how little time I've been able to find to actually craft, its a dang good thing I'm starting this early. We had some friends come visit on Friday evening. That was fun. They brought dinner, and we provided the game to play. Then we sat talking until about 1 am. Fun, but I really should have gone to bed sooner. Oops. Jacob woke me up at 5. 4 hours of sleep is not enough for this Mama. And now for some pictures...

 

Baby feet! who doesn't love baby feet? So very cute. Yes, he does go barefoot when he isn't wearing footie jammies/rompers. I try to put socks on him, but they just fall right off. So he keeps a blanket on most of the time.

 

So, this is a picture of one of his favorite positions...He'll just hold the one arm up. Reminiscent of Superman. So very cute. I thought it worked especially well with the hero shirt.

 

And here we have Jessica (who is currently repeating "oh goodness gracious" in the background) trying to put her pajamas back on. They are footie pjs. So, fairly obvious that she got a leg in the sleeve.  

This one is harder to see what is going on. Nathaniel does have his arm under Jacob, supporting him, but is not assisting in movement at all, Jacob got his feet under himself and pushed his bum up into the air. He'd been laying on the blanket (tummy time) and had been pushing with his legs as if he'd been trying to crawl. That's why Nathaniel even put his hand under him, and then without his body flat on the blanket, he actually did get some movement. 

 

Jacob seems to be our physical genius. Jessica's ability to make connections, remember locations, and vocabulary are astounding (at least, I have a lot of people comment, and some of the connections and remembering surprise me) but while Jacob isn't as flexible, there was the trying to crawl, and other things physically that seem well ahead of "normal". This picture I'm just supporting his weight a little. He pushed his legs up straight, and held them there long enough to take a picture. He's been doing this one for a week or 2. From the first week, he'd lift his head back (off our shoulder) and then LOWER it back down. The head going back could have been just the normal floppy baby head, but to then slowly lower it back down... We were impressed.

  

And one last one... I am just barely touching his head, to keep it from flopping back too far, and he is not even touching my legs. That's right, as long as he's got some help for his neck muscles, my 1-month-old is sitting. 

  

And, so here is the proud mama. Yup I've got super babies. ;) And hey, these last 4 pictures were taken today, so there we go, 1 month portraits as well. Yes, I was bragging, the things seem unusual for me, but I'm really going just based off memory from Jessica. So they may not be all that unusual. Let me have my fantasy.