One month old!

I am now ONE whole month old! I have finally made it back to my birth weight (plus 2 oz.) but I am not any taller. I can sleep through the night now but that is really no fun! I try to throw in several nights of waking up just to keep mom and dad on their toes. When I see they are getting really tired I give them a break for a night or two and do the boring thing of sleeping 6 or 7 hours straight. It is amazing what a good mood they are in the next morning! I have discovered that I am like my mommy and I like to sleep on my tummy! But mom only lets me do that at nap time. I like my MaKieley, Daddy and Mommy to sing to me and I like the water. They call me a water bug!

WOW!! One whole month went by really fast!

Marley and the Practice Baby

MaKieley has a practice baby named Emma. We always knew Emma was a BIG Baby -- especially when John or I ended up carrying her after church or half way through our shopping trip! I decided to find out exactly how big Emma was compared to Marley. Here are a couple of pictures to show you exactly what they look like next to each other. Marley is 19 inches long and her head is 13 1/2 inches around. Emma is 21 1/4 inches long (1 1/4 inches longer than Marley) and her head is 15 inches around (1 1/2 inches bigger). WOW!! I never realized when I was lugging Emma around (frustrated that I had let MaKieley bring her along again) that the baby I was carrying inside me would be smaller at birth! Emma the practice baby can wear clothes that swallow Marley and the clothes Marley wears will not even fit on Emma the practice baby!

MARLEY

John and His Girls!

John and his girls!

The Sisters!

MaKieley is enjoying her sister! She loves to help in so many ways! She especially loves to hold Marley!
Marley is now sleeping around 6 hours a night (most nights :) )! She stays awake for an hour to two hours at a time during the day and loves to look around!
She is not quite back to her birth weight but she is almost there! This Thursday she will be 4 weeks old! We can hardly believe it has gone by so fast!
John has been off this whole month and it has been wonderful! It has made everything so much easier! I'm not sure how things will go when he goes back in October, but I guess we will have to figure it out! Until then we will just enjoy our time!