One Month Old!

Today I am ONE MONTH OLD!

Everyone said the next year would go by fast, but who knew it would go by this fast.

I weigh 7lbs 14 ounces

I wear Newborn Size Clothes

I drink 3 ounces of milk every 3-5 hours

I follow Mommy and Daddy with my eyes

I reach for, but can not grasp :), my nuk and bottle

I dirty approximately 10-17 diapers a day

I sleep in increments of 2-5 hours

With awake periods of 1 hour to 3 hours

I sleep in a bassinet next to mom and enjoy my baby crack machine while sleeping (white noise)

I have specific cries and faces that tell you what I want and need

I'm easily startled by loud noises and bright light

My first outing was on September 23rd, We went to Super Target

Today we went to Babies R Us and Chilis where some loud kids were annoying me

I enjoy 40 Min Walks and my bouncy seat

Check out my new "fuggs" for the fall :)

Some New Pictures

Heres when Grandma was so kind to stay with us and visit.. So Ava was 2 weeks old in these pictures

This was taken the day grandma was leaving :(

I cried after I dropped her off at the airport

Daddy and Daughter :) We need to take more pictures of all of us...

And this is my Mini Tony today.. at 3 weeks and 4 days.. Yep same outfit.. she only has 4 outfits that fit her right now.. shes in NB stuff and found it silly to buy any more things.. I must happen to take pictures the days shes in this one LOL

Cant believe it will be 3 weeks on wednesday.

I cant believe Miss Ava will already be 3 weeks on Wednesday! Time has gone by soo fast already. She looks like a completely different baby then she did when we first saw her.

Everything has been going well.. She lost her cord last week.. she has the weirdest little belly button... I guess I figured baby's belly buttons look like ours.. I dont know if its an innie or an outtie.. My mom says its and inbetweenie.

We still haven't finished re staining her rocking chair for the nursery or hanging up pictures and decor. Although she has this fancy bedroom she sleeps in our room in a bassinet type thing per recommendation of St Johns. I kinda like it actually.. I thought I was going to be a womb to room mom but now that shes next to me I couldn't imagine her being all the way across the house.

Her reflux has been good so far today. Knock on wood.. She hasn't had anymore blue/purple spells really and we are working on slowing down on our eating. Taking time, talking, burping , whatever we can do to slow her down a little bit.

We also inclined her mattress which has been the biggest savior to date. Shes actually sleeping now!

We have some new pictures I just have to wait for Tony to re size them so check back hopefully by Wednesday :) Or maybe I should just learn how to do it and add it to my list of growing chores that seem to pile up daily at our house. :)

Paging Dr. Mark, Paging Dr. Mark.

So our precious little girl had her first wellness visit.

It was supposed to be with Dr. Mark but he wasn't in today

and we didn't want to wait to long incase Miss Ava wanted to see the boys in blue again.

So we saw Dr. Kate, She was a sweet dark haired 33 week pregnant gal.

All I thought was whats up with all the pregnant girl doctors. She was nice enough.

Of course they measured her head- 14 inches and weighed her 6lbs 14 oz- thats 10oz more

then her birth weight!! Were on the right track!

They tested her "monkey feet" and her grip and Dr Kate said she was STRONG!

Then all of a sudden Dr. Kate said we are gonna test her reaction reflex and I dont want to worry you. I was like Okay? And boy did she get PISSED! She fisted up, her face turned red, she obviously passed that. All in all a good day at the Dr. We go back in 2 weeks for another check up a little bit sooner then the rest of the babies but we wanna make sure everything is going as planned. :) Happy and Healthy

We werent going to give Miss Ava a pacifier but both NICUs highly reccomended one and she has a good suck so we gave it. Plus we figured better a pacifier then her hand... we can at least take the pacifier away later. Here she is trying to grab it back from me looking all mad at the world...















And here she is seconds later LOVING her paci!







Not to mention... she got this sweet little outfit from my mom, her grandma. And it has the funniest little pockets on her butt.. come to find out shes more like daddy then we thought.. candy in her back pocket ALREADY!





Now I just have to figure out what to do with my hair.. I was going to grow it but its driving me nuts. ::SIGH::

First Bath at Home

We decided it was time to get de-germed when we got home from the Children's Hospital NICU.

Daddy sure knows what he is doing thanks to Miss Holly from St. Johns NICU.

He totally took over the whole bathing process :)

All that was left to do was for mommy to hold and warm me!

Welcome to the World Miss Ava!

Ava Suzanne Murphy

August 26th 2009

12:16pm

6 lbs 4 oz

19 1/2 inches

Welcome

Welcome

We decided to start a blog, we are so 2009. I know its hard to imagine but here we are.

On this site we will update you all on our little Ava as days and years go by. And keep you informed on our family. Not to mention its a great tool for you all to see our little one as we recently were blessed enough to come to a conclusion on our "camera hunting". We ended up with the Nikon D5000 and we are still perfecting our craft.