The Use of Hands

Self explanatory

All smiles

My little side sleeper, like mom

Sophie has discovered how useful her hands are this past week. She's using them to grab at toys now and even hold on. Sophie even brought the toy to her mouth for the first time last night but mom wasn't camera fast enough. She has seen her hands now too, stared at them but hasn't quite figured 'em out enough to really get to know them yet :) She's kinda plateaud in weight gain just under 12lbs at 11lbs 13oz. Of course she had her second diaper explosion on the way there, so maybe that was the explanation for the decreased weight gain. All in all Sophie is doing great. Changing absolutely every day. It may not be a whole new thing that she is doing but just progress on small developmental things. Lately she has really clung to me. She watches me so intently, I don't think I've ever been stared at more in my life. She watches me until I'm out of veiw and waits there with her eyes until I reappear. It's crazy how much my little lady has changed in just over 8 weeks now. She is almost 2 months now and will have her first set of shots this friday for her well visit. I wonder how much she has grown in length, I'm thinking a lot but who knows.

Godparents

Clinton and I are having his friend Nate Safe and his soon to be wife Alice Scharnweber be Sophie's godparents. In highschool Nate and Clinton were co-captains in football together. They also grew up going to the same church, Spring Garden Lutheran Church. We thought Alice and Nate would make agreat "godparenting team." Alice graduates from NDSU this fall and Nate will graduate this spring. He is an offensive tackle, I believe it's called, for NDSU Bison. As you can see they decked her out in Bison gear. I had to attach this pic of her smiling. That's gosh golly one big smile for the little lady! She's 7weeks and 1 day old.

Sophie's New Bedding

Okay so you can tell I'm a new mom. I think everything is shareable. Sophies Grandma Chris made her bedding and we just put in the new bumper today. It's so beautiful. I love it. It matches our wall border so much. I'm glad we waited for this last bedroom touch so we could "genderify" the bedding... It wouldn't be as cute to me if it were yellow and green.... I've had enough of that before she was born. Also Sophie got weighed today, she weighs 11lb 10oz at about 6.5 weeks. Soon she'll have her 2month well visit,... with shots :/ Time sure flies!

History! 39 weeks pregnant

For those of you who don't have facebook... Here is Clinton and I just one week before bringing Sophie into our family. His shirt is hiding some of my belly though. I love this picture and plan on putting it in a Scrapbook for Sophie... another project that I want to accomplish!

Smile

It's not much but it's hard to catch her when she's giving her smiles. Sometimes I just like to enjoy them rather than rush for my camera so here is it. She smiles bigger but you'll have to wait to see them for when they flow more freely. Maybe we'll have to have my our nephew Luke come over, he always get's his little sister to go smile crazy.

Lutefisk Dinner

Well I got Clinton to go to a church Lutefisk Dinner yesterday. I dragged him there but he went. He even ate some. However, he decided he still didn't like it. Oh well. Sophie was great during the dinner, she just slept in her car seat. Nothing is really going on with our family. Sophie weighed 11lb 5oz this past Monday so I'm guessing she's atleast 11 and half pounds now, probably closer to 12. I attached one of my favorite pictures of Sophie. The one above is my absolute favorite so far.

I wanted to start a blog so people can see what is going on with our family now that Sophie is here. So here it goes, I'm sure it will get more interesting as time goes on!!