Five Weeks!

**Scroll down - I just posted our One Month post from Tuesday... I apparently forgot to hit publish.. oops!**

So our little lady is five weeks old (five weeks, one day actually)! In some ways it seems like time is flying by, but in other ways it seems like she has been here forever! We had her one month pediatrician appointment on Thursday and Lucy is doing wonderfully!

Weight: 7 pounds, 15 ounces (still a peanut, but she has gained two pounds since birth!)

Length: 20 inches

Our pediatrician (I love our pediatrician, by the way!) said Lucy looks perfect and AGAIN said that Andrew and I seem very calm and relaxed. We are, thank you very much :) Lucy didn't even scream the whole time we were there. I fed her between being weighed and seeing the doctor and she was nice and calm. What a good baby! She won't go back until she is two months for all of her vaccines... I think that is going to be a rough one!

Lucy is still an eating machine, eating every hour and a half during the day. At night she will go one long stretch, anywhere from three and a half to *once* five hours, but then she wakes up every hour and a half for the rest of the night. She has started taking a bottle at night, though, which is going to be really nice when we want to go out to eat or take her some place where nursing isn't really a great option! Being an eating machine leads to being a pooping machine too! On Thursday morning, Lucy "got" me good - three times in one diaper change. It was hilarious and disgusting all at the same time!

This week, Lucy started getting pretty fussy in the evenings. Tuesday evening was actually the most upset we have ever seen the poor monkey - she screamed for hours straight. Between 5 and 8 every night this week she has been pretty fussy and refusing to nap even though she is exhausted, but we are working through it. She cluster feeds like crazy so I usually just end up parked on the couch with her. Andrew cuts up my dinner and serves it to me on a pillow - he's a keeper!

On Wednesday, Lucy had her first play date with Gavin. Gavin in my friend Holly's 7-month-old. He is HUGE! He weighs 21 pounds and having them right beside each other was hilarious. He loved Lucy and screamed and clapped the whole time we were there. She just slept and ate :)

Friday night, Lucy attended her second birthday party, this time for my friend Katie. She did super well at the restaurant until right around the time the food came, and then she decided she was ready to eat! She also had fun back at Katie's mom's house being passed around and adored by everyone.

The most exciting thing that is happening in our little world is Lucy is starting to smile. REAL smiles. She has worked those smile muscles since day 1, but I think she is actually starting to smile now to show us she is happy. Check it out for yourselves!