Ella- 1 month old

On September 27th, my little girl turned one month old! I can't even believe it! Where did this month go?! It has been a crazy fun month, but also VERY tiring. I feel like we are just now starting to get in some sort of routine. I am more comfortable taking both kids out in public, but it is still a lot of work!

Ella has been a dream of a newborn. She is so quiet, calm, passive, and just so sweet. (She does have her moments though :) She is the complete opposite of her brother. Kade like to be sitting up and moving at all times, and Ella is perfectly content just sitting and watching. She is a dainty little thing, and we can't help but laugh at her skinny little legs. Her little shins/calves and feet are so skinny and little. She is the spitting image of her big brother at this age. When I look at pictures I think they look identical, and if it wasn't for the pink and bows I might not know who was who! Her cry cracks Bryan and I up. Bryan thinks she sounds like a cat. It takes a good minute or two of working up some grunts to actually get a cry out and when she does she sounds just like a little kitty cat. Since Bryan and I have a nickname for just about everyone we now call her The Cat. (Kade is known as The Rooster, and honestly I have no idea why!) Her sleeping is kind of all over the place, but for the most part we can expect a good 6 hour stretch at night followed by another 4. Every so often she will have a bad night and be up every 2-3 hours. I am hoping that her 6 hour/ 4 hour stretches become more of the norm in the coming weeks.

Ella had her one month appointment on the 27th and we were told she is perfect! I had Dr. Mercer look at the birthmark that is on her leg and he told us it was a strawberry hemangioma.  I had looked something up about it prior so tha'ts what I thought it was beforehand. He told me they are normally completely harmless and tend to be more common in girls than boy. He said it would continue to grow for her first 9 months- a year then it would go into a period of "rest" and then by the age of 5 most of them are completely gone. He said we would keep an eye on it but for the most part everything should be ok! She is growing right on track her stats were:

Height: 22 inches (75 %)
Weight: 9.8 lbs (50 %)
Head: 37 cm (50 %)

I love this little girl more than anything and as fast as this month has flown by I feel like I have known her forever! I can't imagine my family any other way!