Three Weeks with a Baby

Our sweet little Leah is 3 weeks old now. The past three weeks have gone by so fast that it's hard to believe. Leah is such a good and content baby and we love her so much. Here are just some of the highlights from the past three weeks...

She is only a few days old in this picture. When we first brought her home, it seemed like all she did all day was sleep. She would wake up to eat and then just sleep again. She now has times when she is awake longer, but sleeping is still what she does the most. Ross thought it was so funny when I would burp her when she was this little. She would lay so limp over my hand that he thought she looked like a little Muppet with her arms and legs just dangling. Now she moves her arms and legs around a lot when I burp her and she's even starting to hold up her head more. This picture is from when she was one week old...sleeping as usual.
We've started teaching her early...She doesn't know it yet, but she's going to be a BYU fan. Although she probably won't ever truly appreciate the BYU / Utah rivalry now that Utah will be changing conferences. This is one of our first "family photos." I didn't ever think to have someone take a picture of the three of us together at the hospital. Oh well.

We took Leah to my grandparents' house to meet her Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Putnam. It didn't take long for her to win their hearts. She's such a sweetheart!

This is a picture from her first bath. She loves her baths. She lays there so content while Ross and I awkwardly try to bathe her. (We are getting better at it though.) She only cries when we take her out of the water. Probably because she gets pretty cold by the time we get her dressed again.

Here's some more pictures of her adoring fans. Morgan and Madison could not get enough of Leah when we went to their house for Madison's birthday.

We've started putting her in her swing more. Overall, she seems to like it and will usually fall asleep in it.

Here's one of her most recent pictures. She's a little over three weeks old here. This was during one of her really alert times. When she's awake, she's pretty chilled like she looks in this picture. At her two week appointment she was 7 lbs 13 oz and just over 20 inches long. I'm pretty sure she's well over 8 lbs by now. In the past week or so, we've noticed a lot of growth in her.

It seems like Leah is growing so fast right before our eyes. And Ross and I are getting better at this parenting thing as the days go on. She sleeps pretty well during the night. She does wake up a couple of times to eat, but will usually go back to sleep pretty quickly. We love to see all the funny faces she makes. She often makes a face where she kind of grimaces and closes one eye. We call it her pirate face. Ross likes it when she makes a face where her eyes are open really wide and she rounds her little lips into an O shape. She has a really cute smile, but her smiles still only come randomly rather than in response to us. We are so glad to have her as part of our little family. We love her dearly!