Audrey - 1 Month

Audrey Sophia is 1 month old today.  In keeping with the tradition, I decided to try to blog a little about her each month for the first year, though it's definitely more challenging with 2 on our hands this time!  Here goes:

Personality:  Easy going most of the time.  Lets anyone hold her, including Elijah.

Likes: Being held up over a shoulder, sitting in her bouncy vibrating seat, sucking a pacifier and getting swaddled when she is tired.  She also really likes to being close to us, even if is just to suck on her pacifier laying next to us…makes her so much happier than being alone.  Also likes having a night light on in her room.

Routine: Wake up time at 8 am (often wakes up an hour or two before that but I treat it as a night feed and put her back until 8).  2-3 hour cycle throughout the day of eat, play, sleep and is in bed by 9pm.  Wakes up one time at night (around 2-3 am) to eat.  Still working out more definite times of the day for naps.

Struggles:  Going to sleep in her crib at bedtime.  For naps we can easily put her down sleepy but awake, but at her bedtime she cries in her crib unless we put her down all the way asleep.  We need to work on this and making her bedtime a bit earlier too.  Another struggle is at night occasionally she wakes up to feed and then doesn't want to sleep again for another hour or two!  Happy but awake, which is better than crying, but still results in tired parents.  

We are so glad this sweetie joined our family.  It's hard to imagine how we didn't have her before.  We look forward to getting to know her more and more in the coming months and years!