5 Weeks Old

Today Grace is 5 weeks old. She's been doing a lot of new things this week. She has doubled the amount of noises and coos that she makes and she is definitely smiling. It is so fun that she smiles at us now. She is no longer just a blob that I feed and change. She seems to appreciate the feedings and diaper changes. She has also started sucking on her hand in the last couple of days. Sometimes this helps a tiny bit when she wants a pacifier and we can't get to her. Her biggest accomplishment has been sleeping 7 hours straight the past 2 nights. I'm not sure if she was just extra tired from all the activity over the weekend or if she's ready to sleep that much but I'm not complaining. I'm sure she is 10 lbs by now and I've heard once a baby reaches 10 lbs they can more easily sleep that long. So maybe we are really really lucky to have a baby sleep through the night at 5 weeks. I guess we will see what the next several nights bring. Tonight we are going to try to introduce a bottle to her. I'm a little nervous she won't take it but it would be nice to be able to pump every once and a while and give her a bottle. So I finally figured out how to pump and there is a bottle waiting in the fridge for her. My camera ran out of batteries today so I don't have a 5 weeks picture.