Elias - One Month

 

Elias is a wonderful baby! He is so well tempered that this newborn stage has been way more fun for me than my first rodeo 😅. He is calm and chill and only cries when hangry. He eats all the time and has chunked up quickly! Love that! He was born at 8lbs even, and 20.25 inches long. At one month, baby boy measures 11lbs and 22 inches long. 

Elias loves being outdoors and looking around and listening. He naps best in his Moses basket outside. We take long stroller walks and have been playing on the dock with Ellie a lot on the pond. He laughs in his sleep with the biggest grin and it is adorable! Ellie loves being a big sister and they already have a precious relationship going!

We sing and bounce to a lot of our Kindermusik of Greenville songs from when Ellie was an infant and he really enjoys it. Ellie enjoys interacting with him and singing her old songs to him and clapping his hands in rhythm. We do lots of exercises together to help him grow stronger every day so he can soon catch up with big sister! 😘 

Elias has already been getting into adventures with his fun loving family! He went to an egg hunt for Easter at my parents house where he met all of his cousins and Aunt and Uncle! 

He went with us to take Ellie to an Easter egg hunt and event at the unicorn farm and met the Easter bunny. He celebrated his first Easter just a week after being born.

Elias has been strawberry picking at Hunter Farms with Ellie and lots of friends!

He has gone to his first big monthly family dinner with my friends and their families where we cook out and all the kids run wild and free happily! 

And Elias has had his first hike with us and some friends to my favorite upstate hike, Brasstown Falls! He enjoyed laying on a towel in the shade and in the arms of friends and his Mimi who also came! 

He had his first photography session having newborn photos taken by our precious, Anna Bargeron Photography. Here are a few snaps she took (including the very first photo at the top of the blog)!

He naps well, and sleeps well too. He sleeps 3-4 hours straight and with Eric and I taking turns with feedings, we usually only each have to get up once in the middle of the night - although - getting up physically and then waking up mentally because of the tiniest sound and being on full alert are totally different and so we are still in those early newborn night stages where we literally jump out of bed or become wide awake if even a false alarm cry from down the hall happens. 😅😂 

He is a sweet little treasure and having this sweet boy makes me wish I’d had him sooner because choosing to complete our family with him is one of the best decisions I have ever made!