Dad this one's for you:

Amelia's first smile. This was the first time she started really smiling at me and my mother-in-law grabbed the camera and caught this one on film. I'm surprised, as you can tell from my smile, and Amelia is showing her crooked smile (taking after her daddy once again!). This was on Sunday and she has been smiling ever since. She really likes smiling at Andrew and he can get her to smile practically every time he picks her up. What a cutie! We love her so much.

And it was cold in our house so she is wearing socks on her hands and a hat :)

1 Month Old
Time is flying and she is growing so fast...

She is getting really good at holding her head up and she likes to look all around.

I love the baby sling. It is so convenient to carry her and then I have both my hands free and can still get things done around the house like vacuum or eat my dinner (although I have to be extra careful not to drop food on her head!) She loves sitting in here because she can look out at the world. Then usually she quietly fall asleep. I like that part.
Here she is sleeping with Grandma Checketts.
Wearing socks and a hat because it is getting COLD :(

This is her quiet, alert face when she is just content and zoned out.


Male-pattern baldness...
I knew babies sometimes lost their hair, but I didn't know it could go like this.
Poor girl. Good thing she's got such a cute face.

If only pictures could do her justice...

Picture taking woes:
I can be staring right at her and snap a picture and then look at the picture and think it doesn't even look like her. The color is wrong, the angle is flat, and she just looks so much cuter in person. Maybe I need a new camera? Maybe it's just that she's cuter in real life? I guess you'll all just have to come and visit to see how cute she really is. But here are some pictures to tide you over.

In the stroller ready for our daily walk. We both love our walks together. Sometimes she sleeps and sometimes she looks around for the whole hour and tries to absorb the new sights and sounds. She loves the cool air on her face and closes her eyes and leans into the breeze. My daily walks are much more fun with her along.

Hug Me
Hug me...are you kidding? I want to kiss you, squeeze you, cuddle you, love you, and eat you up. Hug you. That's an understatement.

Grape sucker anyone?

I know, a little disturbing that it looks like the nutritionist is feeding her 3 week old baby purple Popsicles, but the truth is, we have thrush and the medicine used to fight it is a purple dye that leaves her lips purple for the day. Only one more treatment *hopefully* and then back to normal, but kind of funny for now.

Cute sleeper.

Cute baby. Hot hubby. Lucky mommy :)