Our little monster is 1 month old!

I can not believe a month has already passed since Gianna was born. I hate how fast time goes by, but I am thankful for the reminder to soak up every second because she won't be this little for long. On Monday, I was changing her diaper and for the first time noticed she had gotten chubbier (I'm really bad at noticing weight gain/loss) and longer and it made me a little sad!

Even though she's only a month old, Gianna has quite the personality. I can summarize G's personal tastes very simply--
Likes: being held all the time

Dislikes: being put down/any other time

Of course I'm going to be more detailed though....

Likes:

•  Clawing with knife fingers
• Staring intently at mom/dad, outside, the fan, and black objects (well the fan IS black...)

• Baths (love would be more appropriate)

• Sleeping snuggled next to mommy

• Sleeping on mommy or daddy's chest

• The sound of running water
• Yummytown (breastfeeding)
• Baby Prison (swaddles)

• singing in her mouth (it's weird but it calms her...you'd just have to see it to understand)
• Worming up mom/dad's chest trying to escape
• Trying to roll (yes. It is scary. She has been unfortunately been successful with a quarter roll from back to side. Pray for us!)
• Make lots of faces, many of which are funny/silly/unattractive (just like mamma)

• Being whispered to very softly in her ear

 

• And just simply being adorable

 

 

 

Dislikes:

• Being left alone
• Her bouncer (if left in there more than 5-10 min)

 

• Baby slings (this is improving)

  

See, getting better! She likes it if she's comatose....lol
Also note the hands in her face...she did this in the womb also!

• Carseat (screams bloody murder every car ride!!!)
• Not being held
• Being anywhere but in someone's arms
• Are you getting the picture?!

Now, let me qualify those "dislike" statements. Over the past few days, Gianna has been doing some changing (I wrote this last weekend on my phone...probably while breastfeeding at 3 am). For instance, she will tolerate the slings and carseat if and only if she is sleeping. She also tolerates being left alone (as in, not being held, not like alone by herself in another room) for about 5-10 minutes, as she's starting to enjoy looking around more

Gianna's crazy feats of baby strength are insane. Her attempts and partial success as rolling, ability to worm up from our belly to shoulders, and her really odd neck strength/control for being so young. For instance, on her belly, she can push up on her arms and keep her head up for like 10-20 seconds (see exhibits A and B below)

Exhibit A

 

Exhibit B

Then when she's upright, she can keep her head really straight for loooooooooong periods of time (in which she stares into our souls...see exhibits C below...see also staring at me far far above)

Exhibit C

In conclusion, a note to self: eat less healthy, exercise less, and take fewer organic supplements in next pregnancy. Aim for semi-comatose, docile (aka NORMAL) newborn for baby 2 and beyond. No I won't seriously do that.

Nicknames: G, Baby G, Madame Inconsolable (when she's crying lol), little chicken

We made a little (super cute) monster!!! Happy 1 month exit from the womb, Gianna!!!