Milestones weeks 1-4

Since the day we brought her home Esme has been an amazing sleeper. She started off going to bed around 10 and waking up once at about 3:30 am. The most she ever woke up in one night was twice and the second time was at 530 am so I am not sure it that even qualifies as a night time wake up! She would wake up again around 8 am for a feed and diaper change and then go back to sleep until 930 or 10 am.

Her sleeping patterns just kept getting better. For a while she was going to bed at 11 pm and waking up at 530 for a feed and change and then would sleep in until 8 am or so. AMAZING!

Two days before her 4 week old birthday, Miss Esme started sleeping through the night! She sleeps from 11 pm until 730 am and falls right back to sleep after her feed until about 10 or 11! She is sleeping as I write this and it is 11:34! There was one night that she reverted to the 530 am wake up but she has been sleeping until 7 regularly! She must know how much Mommy and Daddy like their sleep!

She has the funniest sleeping position! She always sleeps with her arms above her head in "field goal" position! We think it is the most adorable thing in the world!



She makes the most hilarious faces. My favorite face is the face she makes when I burp her. She crinkles her forehead and lets out the cutest little sigh...It is hard to capture on camera (it looks like I am strangling her!) but we tried. I like to call it her Soprano face because she reminds me of Silvio when she makes it...


Sometimes we think she is smiling but it may just be gas! Whatever it is, it's cute!



Esme did not like taking baths at first. She would scream so loud and hard that it almost made me cry! I don't like causing her discomfort but I also like a clean baby! It took a few weeks but now she is very content in the water. She loves the tub Grandma Julie got her! This is how she reacted to baths at first:

and this is how she reacts now:


Ez was born with two birthmarks. They are stork bites (little red marks) and will go away over time. The one on the small of her back is very noticeable but it took a few baths before Grandma Julie and Mommy noticed the one on the base of her neck...her thick head of hair hid it!



Another big event was our first walk! I carried her in our ErgoBaby carrier and I LOVE it. It gives support to the back and has lots of storage pockets. It definitely beats getting the big pram out! There is a walk along the edge of the golf course that sits across from our apartment building. We didn't get very far as it was sunset and had to turn back but it was still very enjoyable!
This was the view of our apartments with Manhattan in the background:

Mommy and Ez on the walk: