cuteness

This is what we call cute time in our house - it's hard for me to capture on video, when I start the camera she just looks at me and does nothing so I have a bunch of really boring video.....except this one! It makes my heart explode every time she does this!  Enjoy!

If you listen closely you can hear Parrish mumbling some neuroscience mumbo jumbo for a second in the background.....

Milestones

first photoshoot

It's been a pretty exciting week here with Siler.  She has started making noises at things now which is very exciting and she is getting better and better at it.  She's not full on cooing yet, but we are getting close.  I'm pretty excited about this as it is one of my favorite baby phases.  I've tried to catch her on video but we are still working out her movie star contract....

you can tell that she likes Eva and Julia!

She has also discovered her tongue and how much fun that is.  You know she likes you when she looks at you and sticks her tongue out. Eye contact is really coming along now too!

I'm getting better at functioning with baby.  She and I went to meet some friends for lunch....I got her there, unloaded her and her crap, changed her diaper in the restaurant bathroom, went to the bathroom myself, nursed her, ate lunch and had a conversation with friends - all without Parrish there!!  Pretty huge in my book!

Daddy makes crazy faces....

We also had a fun photoshoot with the colonel (aka, grandaddy Waters) - she did a great job.  I promise I will not often put her in frilly crap but these were old dresses of mine so......funny thing is we have photos of me at 2 months in the greenish dress and on her we could not button it......she's still a honker, I mean healthy!

first bottle with daddy!  She did great, sucked it right down then spit most of it back up!                                          

Jahnimous is very helpful.....

hearing test - she passed!

One Month Old

Well, as our pediatrician said at our one week appointment, we haven't killed her yet!  Yay!  We haven't even come close!  I can't believe it was one month ago that we went to the birth center at 11:30 in the morning and came home with an 8lb 5.5 oz. baby girl at  6:00pm.  Wow, what an amazing day!

8 lbs.  5.5 oz!!

My amazing birth team (not including the midwives there)  I am so lucky to have such great support and so thankful to the Charleston Birth Place for a safe and comfortable place to give birth!  Thanks!

Our first week home was full of visitors and sleeping (for Siler and Salem), lots of cooking and diaper changing for Parrish and lots of cleaning, dog walking and baby holding for Grandma.  When grandma left  we quickly discovered the baby carrier and Siler loves it, as a matter of fact she's sleeping in the carrier right now! Oh, to just have someone hold you all the time....

Daddy's first diaper change....note there is not a diaper on the baby!

Reading the instructions....

We loved the pediatrician, Siler did not.

Siler has gained a little over a pound this month.  Shes a great eater and sleeper (sometimes 5-6 hours at night!) We really could not have a better baby! She doesn't do this (below) very often.

She loves bath time and loved meeting her cousins Sam and Christopher!

We went to Lake Lure for several days and Siler enjoyed meeting Starr, Desmond and Isabelle, Ashleigh and Mandy,  and her great aunties Kay and Lou.  We had such a great time and Siler loved the cool mountain air, well, it wasn't that cool, but she enjoyed the view! 

We also hit the fun and fancy float festival in Hot Springs.  Thanks for having a superfun birthday every year Laura!  Hopefully Siler will never miss a year!

Siler had her first beach trip to Sullivans Island to take the dogs for a walk on the beach.

It's been a very thrilling month for us.  Siler already seems like she's not a newborn anymore and she's gotten so much stronger in the past month.  Sorry for the super long post - hopefully I'll keep up with this weekly!  Here are some more photos, just to make sure you got your Siler fix!

Salem

Siler

Siler

parrish

note the dimple!!