1 Month Old

Our precious girl is 1 month old today!

I tried my best to get some good pictures of her today - with 3 different cameras - but truthfully, it's so hard to get everything set up for "perfect lighting" and getting good shots in with her right now.

Elizabeth has discovered her legs can move just as quickly as her arms, and uses them all the time for many different purposes - telling mommy she's needing more to eat, expressing anger or excitement, and my personal favorite: kicking daddy in the stomach when she realizes he's picked her up to comfort her...and he can't feed her. Ha!

Her favorite song is that ridiculous Burger King jingle about the 50-cent soft serve. She will seriously wake up out of a sound sleep when it comes on, and she'll get a big, goofy grin on her face! (I'm definitely not doing my job as a musician to expand her palate, lol).

She loves to snuggle, and we've started calling her "bug" (as in, potato bug), because she "Slinkys" her way down from your shoulder and curls up into a little ball like a potato bug.

Elizabeth is also learning how to hold her head up - very well! She does it all the time now. She is much better about not throwing a fit in the bath, and actually enjoys it.

This baby is such a blessing. :) 

Enjoy the pictures! (And please, don't compare them to the newborn pictures I did. There really is no comparison, and these pictures are really rough).

"I don't like this on my onesie,
Mom."

"What's over there?"

"Please, mama, I don't want to do this!"

"I'll sit still for a minute..."

Probably the best shot I got...

Me: "Who's 1 month old today?"
Ellie Jo: "Me! I'm 1 month old
today!"

"It's my 1-month birthday,
and I'll cry if I want to!" (Serious,
this is how it really went. I'm lucky
I got any pictures without her crying).

This is a good one of her fussing....

"Why you switch cameras, mom?"

I like to refer to this as the "Joe
Pesci" face.

 

"This is cruel and unusual punishment!"

"Watch me wave!"

Looking at the dining room table...
(much more interesting than mom's
camera, you know).

"I'm tired of this now, mommy..."

Looking for Daddy to save her from
the photoshoot...

The only one I did with the flash (she looks
super thrilled).

"Are we done now, mommy?"

We're so happy that our little sweetums is 1 month old. She does something new every day, and just makes us laugh so hard! (Sometimes we laugh when I'm sure she'd prefer we didn't!)

Here's to month #2 of our adorable Ellie Jo!