Happy Birthday (kind of)

Yesterday Ainsley was one month old and we can't believe it. The time has flown by (and I'm sure it will continue to do so). Over the past month we've seen our parents come and go, tried to learn how to be parents ourselves (we still haven't mastered that one...surprise surprise), had a few meals brought to us by friends, seen the midwife and health visitor several times, changed about 250 nappies or so, gotten less sleep than usual, gone on a few walks, had lots of visitors, done LOTS of laundry (mostly because Ainsley's clothes have poop, pee or spit up on them), had our 4 year anniversary, etc., etc., etc. No wonder the time has been a blur! At 2 weeks Ainsley weighed 8lbs. 5oz. and at 4 weeks she now weighs (drum roll please)...9lbs. 7oz. Also, since she was born she's grown 2 inches. She was bang on average (5oth percentile) for her size and now she's in the 75th percentile. That's right, our baby is above average. :) She has shown to us that she has a well developed set of lungs too. Overall she's a very good baby but boy can she wail (mostly when she thinks she's starving or when she's over tired). Speaking of tired, she fights going to sleep at night which isn't very helpful right now since we're trying to establish some sort of routine. She does like her baths now though which is great since she hated the first few she had. The newest thing is that she developed baby acne last week. Thankfully it doesn't bother her at all. It bothers us though so we can't wait until it's gone. Yesterday Ainsley and I went over to a friend's house for a little mommy and baby get together and today we took her to get her passport photos taken. It's been a busy month, a bit rough at times. It's frustrating not knowing how to settle Ainsley if she's upset or when she wants to eat every hour and I just need a rest from her eating. Overall it's great though and we wouldn't change anything for the world. It is definitely a team effort over here. I couldn't imagine doing this alone. Andy is really good at changing nappies, giving baths, swaying our baby girl to sleep and generally everything else to do with being a dad. He seems to have the magic touch when it comes to soothing her. Anyway, that's the update for now. The pictures I've added were both taken yesterday on Ainsley's one month birthday. :)