Happy One Month Birthday, Jackson!

Dear Sweet Baby Jax,

I can’t believe that one month ago I was in the hospital getting ready to become a mother. Your dad and I are so blessed to have you in our lives and love watching you grow every day!

At your 2 week pediatrician appointment (you were actually one day shy of 3 weeks at the time), you weighed 9 pounds 12 ounces which is in the 75th percentile. You were 21.25 inches long, which is in the 50th percentile. What a growing boy! Mommy was so nervous about breastfeeding, but you have taken to it quite well and your weight and height show that!

Look at those long legs and feet!

You wore your newborn onesies and jammies for two weeks after you were born, but then one day I noticed that I couldn’t quite get them buttoned anymore between your legs! I have a feeling that you will be growing out of all your clothes in length before the actual size. You also stopped wearing newborn diapers about that time too. Now you are wearing size one diapers and 0-3 and 3 month clothes.

You just started really being alert and social right around your one month mark. I really noticed you actually “looking” at us when we talk to you. It is so much fun! At first you would pick a spot on the wall behind my head to look and you would grin and smile at the spot for a long time. Daddy and I think maybe you can see things we can’t see because you sure love staring at what seems to us like nothing! Maybe you can see the angels that God has keeping charge over us. That’s a really fun thought! We love to sit and talk to you when your tummy is full and you’re happy to talk right back.  You coo and squeal and kick your legs like crazy. We’ve noticed you favoring your left side, and Daddy is hoping you’ll be a lefty like him.

In the first few weeks after you were born you had your umbilical cord that we had to keep clean and dry and also your circumcision place, so we couldn’t give you a real bath. Your Pop and GiGi helped us give you your first sponge bath at home, and boy, did you get mad! You hated being rubbed down, but you calmed down the instant Mommy wrapped you in your towel. Once we were able to give you real baths in your Puj tub, you started loving baths. You love when Daddy rinses you off with the sprayer in the sink, and if you ever get water or bubbles anywhere near your face you try to lick them up!

You also love your car seat and sleep really well in the car unless we stop the car for some reason. You wake right up and start to fuss and cry. This makes going through Sonic at happy hour kind of difficult, little man! You have been so good on the two long car trips we’ve taken so far, so Mommy will just have to be okay with skipping drive throughs for awhile.

We are having so much fun watching you grow, Jax, and we can’t get enough of you! We love you so much, sweet boy.