One Month Memories:

• We thought Graham didn’t know how to spit up. He would eat like a champ and burp big but nothing would come up! That has since changed! ha! I think everyone has been slimed a time or two.
• Nursing was hard the first two weeks for me, not baby Graham. He’s a pro at it. It was painful because he has an abnormally strong latch but it’s all good now. So thankful!
• Emy and I have to pump on wedding days…. which a lot of times means doing it the back of our minivan! We recently got the Willow Pump and tried to use it right before a wedding… for the FIRST TIME, that was a HUGE and hilarious mistake! Don’t cry over spilled milk? Oh, we were almost in meltdown mode!
• He’s peed on everything.
• He poops non-stop…. like every diaper change.
• We realized around 4 weeks that he liked pacifiers for 16 month olds!
• Evy thinks that baby Graham is drinking “smoothies” when he’s nursing and has offered to feed him herself!
• Graham LOVES riding on the boat…. when it’s moving!
• He’s not great at self-soothing… but it’s getting better as he gets older! PTL.
• He could stay in a bathtub all day.
• We took him to church around two weeks old and he has slept through every service since!
• He will nap for 3+ hours some days… and wakes up STARVING.
• EVERYONE thinks Graham looks like my DAD! Everyone except us! haha
• His night-time sleep is amazing. Thank you Jesus.
• He doesn’t mind getting his clothes changed… Evy would lose her mind when something went over her head.
• Evy loves to give him kisses and shoves the paci in his mouth… sometimes with a little too much force.
• He passed his hearing test and I cried walking out of the appointment because I was so incredibly relieved that everything was ok. What a gift it is to receive good news!
• He isn’t always thrilled to be in the car… bummer. But when he’s asleep in his “bucket” (his car seat…. I don’t know why my family calls them a “bucket” now) then he was sleep for hours in that thing!
• He takes 5oz bottles when I’m not nursing him. Wow.
• He seems very serious right now… which  is actually pretty funny when you compare him to Harper because this is the month at she started smiling at EVERYTHING!!!
• It’s HARD to take pictures the way I did with Evy but I desperately want to. I’m learning to accept that it’s different for the second baby and that’s ok. At least I’m taking some!! And at least this post is happening before he’s officially two months old! I’d call that a win!

Oh but she adores him…. Meeting Aunt Momo and Unke Corey! Harper girl…. her smile is the best thing!  First “head” bath!  Meeting friends!!!  Evy and Alton! The Tummy Time Challenge with Harper… he was only three days old! We learned last time with Evy that my momma-post-partum emotions are triggered by not having pictures with my babies when they are BRAND new. So, we took these a day or two after we got home even though I knew Emily Gerald would do an incredibly job two weeks later!  James’ first birthday! Poor guy slept so much we had to wake him up by stripping him down to his diaper his first week and he didn’t like it! These two. They are something! I celebrated Graham being one week old by photographing Sienna Herrinton’s birth! Her MANY babies. They ALL sleep with her!!! A rare Bokeh sighting at our house.  Grammie, Paw and Aunt Sarah have graciously kept Bokeh Boy for us and are continuing to. He isn’t aggressive… but he also just doesn’t LOVE babies and I don’t LOVE having him sleep on top of me during the brand new newborn phase.  The day Dada took her to see Paw Patrol and it was the best day ever!  Graham’s first trip to Big Spring Farm!  Meeting more friends!!! Micah’s first self portrait! bahahaha Bribery. Cheers! Baby Graham’s crib!
Emily Gerald gave us dozens and dozens of images that I’m obsessed with! I want to share my favorites in their own blog post!!! Her bossy face.

Corey’s birthday!

Graham’s first boating experience to The Point for ice cream!  Real life… no shower… the shirt I slept in…  I wanted to take “monthly” pictures of them together… but Evy had Hand, Foot and Mouth disease here! This is as close as they got!  Mimi said I should document  this ordeal and I didn’t want to but I agree that we will want to be able to look back later and remember how much we overcame. This virus is AWFUL. Beyond awful, actually!  And highly contagious! But the grandmas didn’t care… they spent all week helping us avoid it and take care of her! Evy was a champ! Happy One Month Baby Graham!!!