7 Weeks Old

I can't believe it's been 7 weeks since Grace was born.  I can't imagine life without her.  I thought I'd do a post of what I've learned about her in these 7 weeks:

- She loves to eat!  I am exclusively breastfeeding, on demand, and this little baby eats a lot.  She nurses when she first wakes up from sleeping, and then again right before she goes down to sleep.  Considering she sleeps every 2 hours throughout the day, this is a lot of eating.

- She has long legs!!  We have known this since I was 12 weeks pregnant.  The ultrasound tech told me at my 12 week appointment, "your little one has long legs"!  All of her three-month pants are too short on her already, at 1.5 months old.

- She loves her hands.  Her hands are almost always in mitts (because she scratches her face), but when her hands are free, she puts them right up to her face.

- She loves to kick!  She will kick her legs all the time, which is funny, because she did that during my entire pregnancy too.

- She loves her daddy.  She saves her best smiles for him, and it just melts my heart. 

- She loves her bouncy chair.  It actually belongs to her older cousins, Dylan and Max, and it wasn't something I ever planned on buying.  But, once we borrowed it and took it home, I realized how amazing this chair is!

- She must be swaddled in order to sleep.  She doesn't like the process of swaddling, but she honestly can't sleep without it.  If she isn't swaddled, her arms just wave all over, hitting herself in the face and waking herself up.

- She will fall asleep on long car rides, but hates getting strapped in to the car seat.

- She can only handle about 2-5 minutes of tummy time per session right now, but her neck is definitely getting stronger!

- I've been holding her up to a mirror for weeks now, and today was the first day that she actually acknowledged that there was a face in the mirror, and she lit up with a huge smile, and then kept smiling because her face in the mirror was smiling back at her.  It was the cutest thing ever!  I would love to capture one of those smiles on camera.


- My favorite moments with her are just after we've finished nursing.  I try to burp her, and then she does really big stretches and curls up into my chest.  It is the best feeling in the whole world.  I only get 3 hours of sleep at a time, I only shower twice a week and my body is still recovering from what it has gone through, but I am happier than I have ever been.  And those moments when she is peaceful on my chest are just heaven.