One Month Old and Sleeping Like a Baby!

Benjamin is now one month old! It is scary how time goes by so quickly. I feel like I just had him, maybe that is because I still have not completely healed from his birth. My doctor said it will probably be until the END of February before we will know if it is completely healed. That is a long time. Benjamin spent his one month birthday going to the doctor for his check up, getting one shot, and then going to his Nanna's house for a little while, after that he went with me to school and met a bunch of my teachers. I took him home and he had some really great daddy time and I got in a 3 hour nap which was wonderful. Last night Brad watched him so I could get out and go to Barnes and Noble for some hot chocolate (which is my new addiction) and some dental hygiene national board study time. I take my boards in March. Benjamin is starting to smile more and he is really spending a lot more time awake. He now weighs 10 lbs 3 oz. and is almost out of the newborn clothes.

This is his favorite toy right now. He loves to look at it while he is being changed


Sporting his new knit hat and booties that his great aunt Tracy made him





Trying to lift his head... he looks like a turtle when he does this.



He likes to curl his toes over each other. It made for funny footprints at the hospital.

Well my most exciting news is that Benjamin slept through the night last night! YAY! It is still a work in progress because mom spent more time awake looking at the monitor to make sure he was breathing, so I didn't get too much sleep. I had to go in a few times and put his pacifier back in his mouth, and I had to rock him for a little while in the middle of the night, but he went right back to sleep. Brad got up at 6 with him to give him a bottle, he probably would have slept more but I felt like I was starving him. I got up at 9am to feed him and he was not interested and he just wanted to sleep, so I put him back in bed. I think it will take a few days of consistency to really get a solid nights sleep, but we are off to a very good start.