One Month Already???

Sleeping peacefully at one month old. Awake time!

I know they say time goes faster as you get older, but I think the fastest times of my life are when I have a newborn. It is hard to believe one month has already passed. Happy one month birthday, Skyler! He has changed and grown so quickly. He weighed 7 lbs 3 oz at birth and was already 8 lbs 8 oz by his two week appointment! (I know, my boys seem to grow faster than weeds; I'm really interested to see if he'll be as healthy as Spencer was.) I would guess he's well over 9 lbs already, but it's hard to know. His face has filled out a lot and Kyle said he doesn't have the newborn look anymore, but he is still as precious as ever. My favorite time is right after he eats when he's asleep on my shoulder: in that "milk drunk" stage, totally at peace and totally relaxed. They are just so sweet and tiny all in a ball up against you--I just want to hold him like that forever (which is harder to do when you have two older ones:)). Kylene and Spencer still love to kiss and hold him, although Spencer has his moments when he very clearly wants me to put Skyler down and give him some attention.

Skyler is holding his head up well, is very alert when he's awake, and still sleeps pretty well most nights, waking up every three hours almost to the minute. Kyle has been great about taking a shift, usually the earliest shift so I can go to bed, then he'll bring him to me when he's ready to eat. Each day is a little different, of course. One day I think I'm recovering and handling everything well; the next, I'm fighting tears and don't know what I was thinking having three kids! Everyone tells me to give it more time, so I guess that's what I'll do. (Is there anything else to do?!) All in all, we are very blessed and so grateful to have this precious spirit in our home.

Here are a few shots of Skyler from the last weeks.
March 23rd (one week), sleeping peacefully.

April 5th, bathtime.
April 5th, all clean! April 6th, big sister to the binky rescue!