One month

I can't believe it - our youngest daughter is exactly one month old. Same date, same day of the week as last month when she entered our lives at 7:38pm. Where does the time go? Katherine is doing well. She is quite content until she gets hungry and then she wants it now. With Emma I remember a little bit of a grace period between starting to get hungry and being all out hungry and possibly mad. With Katherine she just goes from completely content to mad if you do not catch her in time to eat. She has started to cluster feed again today. It seems when she cluster feeds she does not sleep as well during the day - she never slept for a good length of time today until this afternoon during our short walk and at Emma's swim lessons. Unfortunately, the only time Katherine is not that great is in the evening - she seems to be a very gaseous baby at night and does not go down for bed as easily lately at night as she once did 2 weeks ago. A bit frustrating and hopefully something that will be short-lived.

With the weather so nice the past two days I have been sure to go for a walk. Yesterday "the whole family" as Emma puts it went for a walk, and today Katherine and I enjoyed a short adventure by ourselves.

Emma is enjoying the nice weather as well. Although Emma likes any weather outside it seems - my kind of girl - all weather runner. :-) Even though we are not yet running. Emma is keeping busy these days with swim lessons and intro to gymnastics. She loves to go to both classes.

I keep myself busy with endless lists I make for myself and miscellaneous projects around the house. We keep too much stuff so an ongoing project is always cleaning something out - this is the year for us to try and get rid of a lot of unnecessary things and not accumulate more. So far this year I think we are doing good about not accumulating more little stuff but still lots of work to do on getting rid of - although we did a good job when we were preparing for baby #2. A lot of it was moved to a storage shed and the plan for a majority of it is a garage sale this spring/summer. If we go through with the garage sale our idea - it will be our first. Anybody with any pointers on holding one - please let me know.

Emma had a play date last week at home with a friend from preschool - other than Emma having a mini meltdown about sharing it went fairly well. They played dolls and dress up. Below are a couple photos of them in their dress-up clothes.

I have a variety of photos - the couple of Emma sleeping are from the first weekend Katherine was home with us - she did not nap on this particular Sunday but finally let herself relax while Ethan and I were visiting with Aunt Heidi. We thought the photos were pretty funny - especially with her legs crossed. Ethan unfortunately could not get up during this siesta.

Another one of Emma is her doing an art project with her headband on - she put it on - we thought it made her look somewhat like a hippie.

The photos of Katherine are from today at one month old by herself this afternoon and being held by her big sister tonight.












Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone, especially those who are Irish. Enjoy the beautiful spring day tomorrow - they say its going to be 65 degrees supposedly!