1 month old!

Today, my baby is 1 month old! I can't believe how fast the days go by and how much she grows everyday. When she wakes up in the morning, I find myself studying her face to see what changes happened overnight. I love to kiss her sweet cheeks and stroke her soft hair. She is such a blessing and gosh do we love her!

Some things that have learned since having a baby is that the kid can poop literally 10 times, if not more, each day. Each time she farts, I swear I have to do a double take to make sure it was her and not my husband. After I hear such a glorious explosion, I have learned that I need to hear at least 3 more fartful tunes before I change her, otherwise it will be like a Yellowstone explosion that can reach her curtains about 5 feet away (and by the way, I'm not kidding, this has happened.)

I've also learned that when Rory is not happy, she will definitely let you know ; ) She does not like her car seat and does not like to be changed. If you attempt to buckle her down or change a onesie, watch out as she will go from 0-60 in a blink and let you know her dislike!

I must say that Rory is a great sleeper and averages about 4-5 hours between feedings at night. I am so grateful for this and happily let her sleep so that I can get some much needed zzz's as well. Really, I only get up once in the night because of this because the next time she eats is in the morning when it's time to get up!

Just for fun, let me tell you about our passport adventure. Yesterday, Mike and I were able to get all of the necessary paperwork together for Rory's passport. We were both under the assumption that they would be taking a picture of Rory at the office, however such was not the case. They informed us that we'd have to take Rory to the photobooth and take one of her ourselves. Ok that makes sense right? As we are walking there, Mike asks me if I have yen to put in the machine to pay for the picture. I told him no, I didn't have any because I gave it to my mom to use at the airport. When we get to the photobooth machine, Mike looks at the price and asks me for 700 yen. I again tell him that I don't have any yen because...surprise, surprise, I gave it to my mom. Mike gets frustrated and is all "Well why did we walk up here then?" Um hello? Did he not hear me? So then Mike walks off all frustrated and gets on the escalator to go downstairs to the atm and AGAIN asks me, "Are you sure you don't have any yen???" to which I reply "Oh MY gosh, every time you ask, I'm just going to say NO! I don't have any yen!" Well... Mike's gone for about ten minutes and while he's gone, I get a little bored and decided to check my purse and whattaya know, I do have 700 yen. No wonder Mike asked me like 100 times, he knows I'm retarded. Finally, we're set to take the picture! Now this was a sight to see as Mike had to suspend Rory in the air while I had to push the photo button several times. Believe it or not, the photo below is actually the best out of the 3 we attempted! I LOVE this picture because of how ridiculous it looks. I mean, you can see both of Mike's hands in the photo and Rory has one arm awkwardly up in one direction, not to mention that "What the F?" expression on her face. It's priceless! Gosh is she lucky that she will have this passport photo for the next 5 years of her life ; )

And here's a cute picture of Rory and her Daddy!