Growing Up

Paige has grown up so fast already! I can not believe it! She is just over a month old now! Since 2 weeks old Paige has loved to look around and hold her head up. Now she is getting very good and stable at it!

She loves tummy time too (most of the time). She is already trying to crawl, and able to scoot herself if there is something for her feet to push off of.

These two pictures were taken on Jared's back. That was the best place to see how much Paige was holding her body up. My hand is just there because she is learning how to wiggle and contort her body, thus maing her fall off haha.

Paige is not the best sleeper. She will sleep when people hold her, but lay her down away from any person and she will wake right up. This can come in handy when she falls asleep when she is not supposed to, but it is also very frustrating when she will not sleep when she is supposed to. Paige also hates being swaddled tight. She sleeps with her hands above her head and feet spread apart. But sometimes she gets too tired to sleep, and we have to resort to swaddling her in what we call the "straight jacket". It is a velcro swaddling blanket. This one particular day Paige had not slept since 7:00am and it was 5:30. That is over 10 hours of a baby being awake. No bueno. Babies need to sleep, but she refused. So I swaddled her and layed her in her crib to cry herself to sleep. She only cried 10 minutes and then stopped. I went to go check on her. She was asleep. Halelujah! But she had also escaped! Her little hand was now by her face! So cute! She is one crafty little escape artist! haha

This was on another day. Jared had been gone since early that morning and Paige was having a SUPER cranky day. I have never seen her so cranky! And it was definately taking a toll on me. That night I called Jared just sobbing and told him he needed to come home now because I couldn't do it anymore. (I might have been a little dramatic, I'm working on that) So he came home, calmed me down, and took over watching Paige while I took a nice shower. When I came out, very much relaxed and back to normal/sane, I came out to see this. All Paige needed was to cuddle her Daddy! And Jared had fallen asleep too! What a cute thing! And Jared is an AMAZING man! I love him and could not do this without him!

This Tuesday and Thursday I had the opportunity to go over to my aunt Lindsey's house and play with family! Tuesday was Paige's one month birthday! What a great way to celebrate! And it was a much needed opportunity to get out of the house! (and Paige's first besides the doctors). My cousin Raygan was so excited to be able to hold baby Paige! It was precious! We just love playing with family! And are so excited to start going out of the house and playing! After a month of staying at home, who owuldn't be? haha