one month
dear jellybean, time is such a tricky thing. it seems impossible that it has already been a full month since you arrived, and equally impossible that you have grown and changed so much in only a month. compared to your newborn self, you are staying awake for much longer stretches and now usually prefer to nap in your own bassinet (although you often take at least one nap in the bouncer, or while being held!). you usually go 4 hours between feeds at night, although on a few lucky occasions you've given me a 5 hour and once even a 6 hour stretch! then sometimes you have "noisy nights" where you'll grunt and squeak in your sleep just enough to keep me awake. you generally don't fuss otherwise, so i'll take it! you have a very Teutonic temperament: generally calm and unperturbed, with a facial expression that is perpetually unimpressed. we often joke that you are silently judging us all. in the past week, you've started to smile at us, but it's so fleeti