Jude Dude, 1 month old already!? We love you so much, buddy. You are such an easy and laid-back baby, and are the perfect addition to our family. We are all crazy about you. Actually, everyone who knows you is pretty crazy about you! We praise Jesus for you, Jude Easton.
Firsts: Everything - shopping trips, meeting extended family, road trip/soccer games for brothers, bath, trip to the movies (the Addams Family), Trick or Treating (you were the cutest baby mummy), bottle (Mal Mal gave it to you), receiving mail, etc.
News headlines: Trump impeachment hearings, the Washington Nationals win the World Series for the first time in franchise history
Milestones: Your belly button stump fell off and you got your first bath! After ten days you grew enough and your sugars balanced out to where we did not have to supplement you (we were feeing you with a medicine dropper!).
Measurements: At your two week check-up you were 6 lbs, 1 oz (up about 10 oz from birth) and were 19 1/2 inches long (up 1/2 an inch from birth). I'm guessing now you are close to 20" and probably 6 1/2 lbs. You are now in newborn size diapers, and the preemie size clothes are getting snug, but newborns still are very loose!
Like Mommy: The need to sleep a lot!
Like Daddy: Goes with the flow.
Like Eli: You and Eli have very similar demeanors (calm!) and facial expressions.
Like Landon: You and Landy look a lot alike in the face and you both have blue eyes.
Challenges: For Mommy and Daddy, it's definitely getting longer stretches of sleep! I wouldn't say anything is a real challenge with you though. We may have had a more complicated pregnancy, but you are a relaxed baby and not challenging at all!
Our Days: You eat for the last time between 9-10 p.m., and will sleep until sometime between 1-2 a.m. Right now you are sleeping in the pack and play beside Mommy. You get up again between 3-4 a.m. and usually again close to 6 a.m. Daddy changes your diaper and Mommy feeds you when you wake up, but you pretty much always go back to sleep fairly quickly. During the week, we get up and take the big boys to school and you sleep off and on all morning. You and I keep the roads hot running the car pool for brothers and all their activities.
Funny/Favorite Moments: Mommy's favorite moments involve all the good snuggling. I like seeing you stretch when we get you out of the carseat. I also love seeing the love your brothers have for you. Daddy's favorite moment was seeing you for the first time.
Nicknames: Jude Dude, Jet or Jet Jet
Upcoming Events: The Peanut Festival, meeting more family, Thanksgiving
All 3 of Mommy's boys at one month!
Landon on the left, Eli on the right, and Jude on the bottom.
