Four Weeks

Well, this may seem redundant, but it's hard to believe that Elena is 4 weeks old already! She'll be a whole month tomorrow!! She is growing like a weed! She seems to be developing a bit of a routine (despite Josh and I dragging her all over the place). She usually sleeps four or five hours at a time at night, which is wonderful! Days are a little more scattered, but she usually takes one or two good naps, and a few little ones. She's smiling a lot more, too, which is really fun. Anyway, like the first three weeks, week four was a busy week for Miss Elena...

Sunbathing... she's definitely her mother's daughter!

We went to Springfield for a long weekend... while there, Elena...

...helped paint at Aunt Jessie's new house (working hard)

...went on her first trip to Silver Dollar City! Not sure she saw much of it, though, this is what she looked like during most of the day!

...met her cousins (I really have no idea what the actual term for how they're related is... the little boys are Josh's great-aunt's grandsons) and they loved her (of course)

When we got home from Springfield on Monday, Elena helped Mommy and Daddy clean out the garage.

And she took another bath... this time with Truman's help!

Anyway, another exciting week in the life of a newborn! She was really good for the whole Springfield trip... Josh and I learned that a baby may be small, but they require LOADS OF STUFF! By the time we got the stroller, the pack-n-play, the diapers, etc all in the car, there was barely room for Elena! It was even worse going back, when we had my bridesmaid's dress and baby presents to add to the mess! Check out this shot of the back seat (keep in mind, the trunk was full, too!). Despite all of the stuff she had to travel with, it was a good trip. Elena was great at Silver Dollar City, too. She slept most of the time and was content most of the time she was awake, as long as the stroller didn't stop moving and she wasn't hungry. Silver Dollar City has nursing stations, which made life much easier for me. Of course, once she decided she was starving to death on the opposite side of the park from all of the stations. So that did result in one sprint across the park for me, with a screaming (and I mean SCREAMING) infant in the stroller. Every head turned as I went past, and I felt like putting a sign on the stroller- "I'm not abusing her, she's just hungry!" But a great trip overall!