Mathias is 1 month old!

Well, he is just over 5 weeks old, but I'm not as efficient as I used to be, so this post is a little late.  Mathias turned 1 month old last week - hard to believe!  We've had some tough times with him - he's got a lot of gas/tummy troubles, as well as reflux, so he fusses most of the time that he's awake.  We have a difficult time putting him down because he screams and we know he's in pain, but we are hoping that he improves with some medicine.  The doctor diagnosed him with reflux and gave us some meds for him, so we are crossing our fingers that it helps!  There is nothing worse than seeing your baby in pain and not being able to do anything about it - we feel so bad when the poor little guy is uncomfortable and unhappy.  As he's gotten older though, he's slowly started having more awake time, and when he's awake and not in pain, he's very alert and loves to look around.  At his 1 month well baby visit, he weighed almost 10 pounds and was 22.5" tall - he grew a lot in the last month!  We've had to put away his newborn clothes and get out the next size, because he was getting too tall for his newborn sleepers!

In other recent events, my mom came for a week over Thanksgiving to spend time with the grandkids (and us as well).  We loved having her around the house, and I know she loved being here!  And Miriam has a busy month at preschool this month - she had a "jingle bell run" this past week, and she's got a Christmas program coming up later this month.  I have a feeling she'll either (a) stand with her class and not sing or (b) not want to stand with her class at all.  But I went to observe her jingle bell run earlier this week and I was impressed with how happy she is in class and how well she follows directions.  She still seems a bit shy and reserved (which you know she really isn't when she's comfortable!), but I think she likes it.  And she LOVED that I went for her jingle bell run - she kept running around, saying "Mama, you run with me and bring my baby brother!" and then she invited me back to her classroom for snacktime.  It was special.  :)

Here are a lot of pictures from the last couple weeks...we've been good about taking pictures, but not so great about blogging recently:

Jingle bell run! 

Stretch!