1-Month

Well, my little newbie is already one-month old!

(imagine a darling picture of Adam here, if I were being a good enough mom to document his life with pictures... I'll get to that sometime soon, I promise!)

So far, Adam has been quite the awesome baby! I've been able to experience some of the things that I previously thought to be the stuff of baby-myth: a baby falling asleep without crying, or in the midst of a noisy well-lit room, or without giant bouncing in a pitch-black room with loud white noise... You get the idea. He gets fussy in the evenings & isn't sleeping through the night or anything; but within my frame of reference from previous experience, he's quite splendid.

However, the poor little kid has had a rough week or two dealing with his first cold & the joys of nasal congestion. He's had to endure my endless regimen of saline drops, "snot-sucking" with the bulb syringe, using a nebulizer w/saline solution (borrowed from Aunt Amy, thank you!), and sleeping in a well-humidified room. And almost 2 weeks later... he's still sick. :( It's made sleeping a bit more challenging; I've given in & just end up holding him most of the time. We're really hoping this thing starts to taper off soon!

Luckily we're - and by that, I mean I'm - completely recovered from our bout with thrush, and nursing is FINALLY the pleasant bonding experience that it should be. (Though it doesn't last long - this kid does not waste time, he's done in like 10 minutes flat.) And it didn't seem to have affected his eating too much, since he's already gained a full 2 lbs. in this first month! I do love a big healthy baby & not having to worry about him eating enough.

Some of the highlights of Adam's personality:

• He seems to have gotten the same freakish strength his big sister started life with - he can stand up tall, holds his head up like no one's business, and... last Friday he rolled over. 3 times!! That actually beats Emma by a full month, and she ended up crawling at 5 months & walking at 9 1/2. Good gravy, we're in trouble... :)
• He has the most beautiful big smile, it melts my heart every time.
  
• He's kept almost all of the hair he was born with - yay!!
• He LOVES bathtime, has from the first one. Though I'm not sure who enjoys his baths more, him or Emma... lol

Most of all, he is so darned beautiful & handsome!! That can be entirely attributed to the fact that he looks exactly like his daddy, exactly! And everyone knows that I love miniature versions of larger things, so it just doesn't get any better than this little boy. I think I'll keep him!