Addie has been growing so fast! According to our very scientific “step on, step off, step on with Addie and subtract” method, she’s weighing in close to 11 pounds at just short of 6 weeks old. All her sleep – 4-5 hour stretches most days – must be helping her pack on the pounds.

Over the past week she’s become much more alert and stays up for an hour or two at a time during the day. She’s holding up her head more and more and we’re seeing the beginning of smiles! She is working on getting her thumb, fingers, or whole hand in her mouth and hopefully she’ll figure it out soon, because she has refused each of the five brands of pacifiers we’ve tried! Luckily she is pretty easily soothed as long as she has someone to snuggle with, preferably on the move. She loves walking around – maybe it was all the walking I did while teaching last year?

Here she was in her swing at two weeks.	And here she is at five weeks.