A couple of milestones

Two big events today. The first is that Peanut is a month old! (It's hard to believe a month has passed already.) In honor of her "birthday," here's a pic of her in her birthday suit.

This is tubby time, part of our nightly ritual when I come home from work and give her a bath, get her dressed for bed, and either read to her or feed her, whichever she prefers. It's hard to say whether she or I looks forward to tubby time more each day. As I've said before, she's pretty good company. And yes, I realize that at some point I am going to figure out how to unwind myself from around her finger. But not for a while. :)

The second milestone is that Mom and I think we saw her first smile this morning! There have been plenty of false alarms before (usually brought on by gas), but this seemed to be an actual response to a pleasurable stimulus. We shook a rattle for her while she sat in her new chair (given to us this past weekend by Uncle Tim and Aunt Marie) and she seemed to love it. We had her going for a little bit.

Of course, as soon as we tried to get a picture of it to share with you all, the smile went away. Here are a couple of shots we took afterward where she had kind of a little smirk going. You'll just have to take our word for it that her actual smiles were much better than these - and no, we're not going to tell you we saw the Loch Ness monster today too.


Happy Birthday Peanut!