The DeLorme Family: One Month- 6 Weeks

    I didn't get around to blogging last week, so this blog post will serve as a post for weeks 5 and 6. Graceyn will officially be 6 weeks old tomorrow. I think 6 weeks marks the end of the newborn stage. It hurts my heart that she's no longer a newborn. I am very excited to see the tiny person she will become in the coming months. Watching little personalities emerge is just the neatest thing in the world!
     Graceyn has grown so much in just six short weeks! She seems so much bigger to me. She is such a little chunky thing. She loves to eat and it shows. She has the most adorable rolls. She is definitely the chunkiest baby out of all three.
       Graceyn has become such a laid back and content little girl. She was pretty fussy at 3 weeks, but think that was due to a growth spurt and the fact that I was still eating dairy. I decided to cut it totally out of my diet for the time being. I want her to be happy, and I know that me eating dairy could hinder that. It is very hard to do at first, but I will make any sacrifice for my children. I don't think she is as intolerant to dairy as Dawson was, but I will continue to eliminate it for the time being. She is just doing so well and she is so happy that I don't want to chance anything. We just love our happy little girl. She will just lay on her play mat and look around and take in the world around her.   She rarely cries unless she is hungry or needs someone to hold her.
       Graceyn is starting to be much more alert and awake for longer periods during the day. The biggest thing that Graceyn has started doing in the last two weeks is smiling. I just love those first smiles so much. They aren't incredibly consistent right now, but we all love catching one. I know in the next week we will be seeing lots and lots of smiles. She tends to smile the most for her brother and sister. We have been trying to get pictures, but they are quick and hard to capture.
    Sleep time is still pretty rough for us. For the last week, she has been getting up every two hours. I can handle every two hours. However, around 2:00 a.m. to about 4:30 a.m. she is wide awake! She's not fussy or crying at all, she is just wide awake and does not want to go back to sleep. I am getting very little sleep. I know this phase is so short in the grand scheme of things, but I look forward to our little "party" time to happen during the day and not at night. Sleep will come again eventually.
I take at least 20 pictures of her a day. Like I mentioned before, I have so much fun dressing her. I change her outfits several times a day, so I usually take a picture of each outfit. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the week.

My mom got me this chalkboard to take a monthly picture of Graceyn. I plan to always take it on this chair with this teddy bear for comparison purposes. This is her one month picture.