Today Alethea is one month old.  Happy one-month birthday, Baby!

She has been learning quickly and we’ve been enjoying watching her smile and “talk” more each day.  However, I wasn’t quite prepared for another developmental milestone to come up so quickly: rolling over.  Today, we were playing and I put her on her stomach for some “tummy time”.  I put her hands underneath her so she could push up and look around.  Suddenly, she pushed back hard and rolled onto her back.  She looked really surprised.  I know I was!

I wasn’t sure if it really counted as rolling over by herself since I’d put her hands underneath her, so I rolled her back on her stomach and put her hands down by her sides.  Since she loves to have her hands by her face, it didn’t take long for Alethea to get her hands back under her.  Then she pushed up and rolled over again!

I wonder if this means I need to start baby-proofing the house.  Hmmm…

Peter and I took Alethea to Target two Saturdays ago to get her pictures taken at the photo studio.  Predictably she messed up two outfits before we got her out the door!  We did get some cute pictures though.  This is one of my favorites:

An update on the sleep situation: Alethea continues to resist sleeping in her crib although she has done somewhat better since we raised head of the crib (thanks for the tip Sally) and started using her sleep positioner to hold her tight.  Basically we tried to create similar conditions to her carseat since she seems to do so much better in that.

Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted.  Things have been a little tiring around here lately.  Alethea had been sleeping pretty well, but the past three nights she has suddenly decided that she won’t sleep in her crib.  She will sleep in her swing, in her stroller/carseat (even if it’s not moving) and she’ll sleep if someone is holding her, but put her in her crib and the most she’ll sleep is 20 minutes.  I’ve tried everything I can think of, putting her down awake, asleep, swaddled, unswaddled, with her battery operated aquarium on, with it off and of course, fed her, changed her and sang to her.  Sigh…

So all of you out there in cyberspace what’s your advice?  How do you get an obviously tired baby to sleep in her crib?

Happy 27th Birthday!  Now you are as old as I am!

Thank you for being a wonderful husband and an amazing father.  I know that when you read this you will roll your eyes at me for being so cheesy, but I have to say that you are the best thing that ever happened to me and I don’t know what I would do without you!  I love you!

Well, maybe “triumph” is a bit strong, but I am very excited to report that after several months of not being able to fit my wedding ring on my finger, I have finally “deswelled” enough in my hands to get my ring on!  It’s still a bit tight, but I am hopeful that I will be wearing it comfortably soon.  (Also today is the first day in a long time that my feet don’t look like those of a sumo wrestler, so that’s also good.)

Now for what you’re actually looking for, pictures:

Today Alethea is one week old.  Happy one week birthday, Baby!

Speaking of birthdays, yesterday we had two birthday parties to attend in the afternoon.  Happy 1st birthday Drew!  Happy 19th birthday Genna!

Alethea got all dressed up in a pretty outfit to attend the festivities.

Unfortunately, shortly before we left, Alethea caught Daddy of guard during changing time and managed to pee all over her pretty dress.  She wore a much less fancy outfit to the parties.  Happy Birthday anyway guys!