Grandma Chilcot Visit!

Her favorite play spot
The mobile we bought for her crib

Grandma Chilcot with Sophia

Her favorite sleeping position

Tired bunch--lots of hair!

This past weekend, Grandma Chilcot (Rachel's mother) came up and spent 4 days with Sophia. It was great having my mom around to teach me a few tricks about how to help our little girl get some better sleep! Her little tricks have worked so far. We can't believe she'll be 4 weeks old tomorrow and we'll be celebrating her one month birthday on Friday! She'll have to have a photo shot that day to document her growth. She has filled out much more and is steadily gaining weight and growing like a weed! She's over 8 1/2 pounds now.

She has longer periods of being awake during the day which is encouraging. She'll be awake for 1-2 hours after every other feeding (if that makes sense). She'll average about 4-5 hours of alert time during the day where she's not crying--just looking around. She likes to stare at the ceiling fan in her room from the changing pad. If I had known this would have been her favorite spot, I would have put here there a long time ago. She's kick around on her changing pad for 20 minutes! Just goes to show, you buy a child a toy and they'll want to play with the box.

Daniel and I are holding on without much sleep. I still have 3 weeks of maternity leave left before I head back to work and Sophia heads to daycare. The way time is flying, it will feel like tomorrow!